A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves at her Long Island mansion was sentenced today to 11 years in prison.
Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude, and harboring aliens.
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June 26, 2008
The Pathos of Oneself [Dan Collins]
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Comment by Richard Aubrey on 6/26 @ 9:17 pm #
Shooting’s too good for’em.
In addition to the crimes against the women, they taint our country which spent 600,000 lives straightening this whole thing out.
Comment by ef on 6/26 @ 9:48 pm #
Perhaps they could have argued they were entitled to the civil arrangement of their choice and avoided this whole mess?
Comment by Big Bang Hunter (pumping you up) on 6/26 @ 10:24 pm #
- I wonder if the judges would have been quite so incensed if the “slaves” in question were cabana boys instead of women. That idea could ruin the Glenn(s) whole decade.
Comment by Techie on 6/26 @ 10:56 pm #
It’s been a long time since I saw a 13th Amendment case.
Comment by Roboc on 6/26 @ 11:29 pm #
It’s been a long time since I saw a 13th Amendment case.
You don’t live on Long Island.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 6/26 @ 11:49 pm #
Slavery should get you a life sentence.
No foolin’.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/26 @ 11:52 pm #
“Varsha Sabhnani”
A veddy, veddy American name. Must have come here with the Irish.
God bless America, where you can get away with anything if you claim “cultural differences”.
Cut off your girlfriend’s clitoris? Cultural differences. Cool.
Kill your daughter for having sex? Cultural differences. Cool.
But, hey!
If you are white, keep your god damned mouth shut, you fucking loser piece of shit!
God bless America!
Comment by B Moe on 6/27 @ 4:52 am #
spending the night at Tbogg making an idiot of yourself.
You are being redundant.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 5:09 am #
Hey, nothing says Pathos better then spending the night at Tbogg making an idiot of yourself.
Sounds like an experienced idiot.
Comment by Dan Collins on 6/27 @ 6:08 am #
How cute! It’s The Stinky Cheese Man!
Comment by Carin- on 6/27 @ 6:12 am #
I’m up, dressed, got my coffee … where’s a morning post?
Comment by Rob Crawford on 6/27 @ 6:16 am #
Heh.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:23 am #
And the right says their judges aren’t activists after the ruling yesterday. Overturning that ban on handguns sure seemed activist to me.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 6:30 am #
So does that mean you’re off your ridiculous assertion that they were ruling on the consituitionality of the 2nd Amendment?
Comment by JD on 6/27 @ 6:32 am #
Overturning that ban on handguns sure seemed activist to me.
Yes, incredibly activist. Because reading the fucking text of the Constitution is a novel freaking idea.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:33 am #
I was never asserting that, I was laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation and being sarcastic. Whatever winger now that they ruled in your favor shouldn’t you be clinging to a gun right now you bitter person you?
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:35 am #
Ej Dionne at the Washington Post agrees with me JD, maybe you should read up and get some education.
Comment by Carin- on 6/27 @ 6:39 am #
Hey,anyone see this story about the father of Canadian Healthcare? Even he admits, now, it doesn’t work. Wants to reintroduce private insurance providers and for doctors to rent space in the gov owned hospitals/med centers.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 6:41 am #
Comment by ProggHero on 6/26 @ 4:57 am #
How long till you figure they rule the 2nd unconstitutional?
Sarcasm? Sounds to me that you’re embarrassed by your own ignorance! And with the way you write, I wouldn’t be advising someone else to “get some education.”
Comment by JD on 6/27 @ 6:42 am #
EJ Dionne is an idiot with a column. If reading and understanding plain English on our foundational documents is now considered activist, then that word no longer has any meaning.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:46 am #
You righties have just defined judicial activism as a means to fire up your base. Judicial activism is just court rulings that you disagree with.
Comment by Carin- on 6/27 @ 6:47 am #
Where is this column? See, I think Proggs is a parody. Yesterday I notice it went to “ProgressiveHero” for a bit … instead of the one used here.
He just pulled out that idiot’s name , Dionne, to pull our chain. I can’t find an editorial by him on this. Of course, my googlefoo may be weak.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 6:53 am #
You righties have just defined judicial activism as a means to fire up your base. Judicial activism is just court rulings that you disagree with.
I think you’re still in LARP mode. You forgot to type, “tally ho.”
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:56 am #
Carin it is at the Washington Post website right now.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:58 am #
I wonder if you considered it judicial activism when the court shut down the Florida recount and appointed bush as President?
Comment by JD on 6/27 @ 7:11 am #
I still call parody. Brilliant parody.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 7:14 am #
Well read the article JD, if I am a parody a brilliant Washington Post writer agrees with me.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 7:15 am #
Parody, maybe. Brilliant, not so much.
Comment by SGT Ted on 6/27 @ 7:19 am #
Progg sounds cranky today. He needs to find some defectives to sterilize so he can feel better.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 7:22 am #
SGT Ted you sound cranky too. Are you going to drink any Iraqi children’s blood or pour some Oil on the ground in tribute to “your hommies in Iraq”? Maybe you will just go bomb an abortion clinic.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/27 @ 7:26 am #
Ej Dionne at the Washington Post agrees with me JD, maybe you should read up and get some education.
You might want to try reading the column, Progg. Here’s what Dionne says:
Well, that’s odd. I’d like to see a cite on that one. Conservative justices tend to lean in the direction of local authority when that authority isn’t in conflict with the Constitution. That’s a position I wouldn’t mind seeing liberal justices adopt, and I’d definitely prefer to see conservative justices adopt it consistently. Kelo would have been nice.
What Dionne is talking about, here, is apparently left as an exercise for the reader. It’s also interesting that Dionne comes down firmly on the side of the left-leaning justices, when their opinions were…even more problematic than those of the conservative justices.
In general, Progg, it’s not an acceptable debate point that someone famous agrees with you. That aside, when you’re attempting that inevitably doomed maneuver, it’s generally good form to mention what opinion of yours said famous person agrees with, and even quote them in the process of agreeing with you.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 7:28 am #
Maybe you will just go bomb an abortion clinic.
SGTTed,make sure you ask Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers how to get away with it? That way you’ll be punished with tenure at a state university.
Comment by maggie katzen on 6/27 @ 7:37 am #
ooooh, good save. good save.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 7:49 am #
Well I am not Kolzig but I try.
Comment by BJTex on 6/27 @ 7:52 am #
I’m with BMoe. I think (and hope) it’s Verc.
And with proggie’s raising of the abortion clinic bombings, I can check off the “We have a problem with Christian Terrorism in this country” talking point off of my Progressive List of Snarks and Dodges paper.
Has proggie covered the natural oppression of capitalism yet? How about the rampant imperialism of the US? I’d like to keep up on the checklist.
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 7:57 am #
Neo-imperialism BJ, that way you cover the evil of capitalism and US foreign policy in one word. What you didn’t get the memo. Funny that is actually what we signatures against in my SDS group in college.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 7:57 am #
BJTex, he saved that for his comments on the “John Fund…” post, which he admittedly googled, copied and pasted.
Comment by Howard_Dean on 6/27 @ 7:58 am #
Do you speak English, Progg? I mean, fluently?
Comment by BJTex on 6/27 @ 7:59 am #
Yup. roboc, I just figured it out.
proggieparody
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/27 @ 8:02 am #
Third hit down. That Howard_Dean fellow sure gets around, no?
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 8:03 am #
Funny that is actually what we signatures against in my SDS group in college.
I know this is English, but I still can’t understand what s/he’s talking about. Do they have Incomprehensibility 101 courses now?
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 8:04 am #
I admitted to cutting and pasting it. Therefor it is me citing him. jesus.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/27 @ 8:07 am #
Usually, when one cites “Howard Dean”, one is linking to a comment Dean has made publicly. Your cite, though, is to some comments-board crank named “Howard_Dean”.
Has anyone seen DougJ around lately? I swear, no one could be this stupid by accident.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 8:12 am #
Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 8:04 am #
I admitted to cutting and pasting it. Therefor it is me citing him. jesus.
Wow, who could argue with that? I knew that “ProggHero” and “brilliant”, in the same sentence, was as premature as a liberal ejaculation.
Comment by Dread Cthulhu on 6/27 @ 8:15 am #
PH: “And the right says their judges aren’t activists after the ruling yesterday. Overturning that ban on handguns sure seemed activist to me.”
Only because of your ignorance, PH. The court ruled that the DC gun law was unconstitutional, as it was a blanket prohibition denying the populace as a whole of their 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. No new rights were discovered, no penumbras or magically appearing rights, just the simple, straight-forward reaffirmation of pre-existing rights documented in the Bill of Rights.
PH: “I wonder if you considered it judicial activism when the court shut down the Florida recount and appointed bush as President?”
Talk about your bitter clingers…
Comment by Slartibartfast on 6/27 @ 8:20 am #
One piece at a time:
No. Florida State statute placed time-limitations on getting the vote counted, and the SCOFL’s rulings were counter to state law. In other words, the state judicial was attempting to rewrite state law. It’s certainly arguable whether SCOTUS ought to have involved itself in this particular case, but I don’t think the opinion means what you think it means.
Never happened. Oh, maybe that’s the narrative over on DU, but that never happened. Would you like a link to the opinion, so you can point out the part where they appointed Bush? It’s not there, but you’re welcome to look as long as you like.
Comment by Education Guy on 6/27 @ 8:26 am #
Never happened. Oh, maybe that’s the narrative over on DU, but that never happened. Would you like a link to the opinion, so you can point out the part where they appointed Bush?
This lie has been well documented, and there are several (left leaning) media organizations that have spelled out why it is a lie. At this point the people who continue to cling to it do so for personal or partisan reasons. The truth is not what they are after.
Comment by Ouroboros on 6/27 @ 8:26 am #
Morning all!
Yes I agree.. FauxProggZero does sound rather testy today.. Not nearly as entertaining as yesterday… Is it a different person today or did Jeff just get out of character then forget how to get back in? If you’re going to create SouthPark single dimensional characters you need to remember their defining traits…You dont see Token acting like Butters do you? Now try the character again but this time with less angry and more confusion..(dont change a thing about the ‘dumbass’.. thats spot on for a proggy parody)
Comment by Ouroboros on 6/27 @ 8:42 am #
Ya know.. It just occurred to me that I haven’t seen Nishi around lately.. Not since PH appeared anyway.. This PH could be one of Nishi’s MPD manifestations.. It’s certainly no weirder than the Crouching tiger characters…
Comment by BJTex on 6/27 @ 8:50 am #
I think proggie needs an intervention.
“We’re here to save your political and critical thinking life!!!”
Comment by BJTex on 6/27 @ 8:51 am #
“Not to mention your use and comprehension of the english language!!!”
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Comment by Radish on 6/27 @ 9:03 am #
Progressive List of Snarks and Dodges paper.
BJT, you should make bingo cards.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/27 @ 9:12 am #
“And the right says their judges aren’t activists after the ruling yesterday. Overturning that ban on handguns sure seemed activist to me.”
If you learned how to read and boned up on American history, the constitution would probably not pose such a problem to you.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/27 @ 9:13 am #
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Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 6:23 am #
And the right says their judges aren’t activists after the ruling yesterday. Overturning that ban on handguns sure seemed activist to me.”
Sounds like ReactionaryZero wants to find the whole Constitution unconstitutional.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/27 @ 9:15 am #
“Judicial activism is just court rulings that you disagree with.”
Judicial activism is reactionary left/fascist judges treating the Constitution like toilet paper.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 6/27 @ 9:21 am #
“Comment by ProggHero on 6/27 @ 7:57 am #
Neo-imperialism BJ, that way you cover the evil of capitalism and US foreign policy in one word.”
Way to try and conflate America with neo-nazis, fucktard.
“Hate America First”, the reactionary motto.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/27 @ 10:59 am #
Dan,
Awesome. “The Stinky Cheese Man”. I’m not sure what to make of it, but it’s very funny.
You are amazing. Your posts remind me of 1969 when a girl gave me a bag of dust left over from 10,000 hits of Owsley. Talk about a “large gray area”!
Or maybe they remind me of “The Grateful Dead” around the same time.
Thanks. You are (almost) always amusing and are definitely always entertaining.
“PW – where sick minds collide”.
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/27 @ 11:02 am #
N.OB,
I think you meant “Fuck America first, last, and all ways”.
Ain’t the new millenium fun?
Comment by The Lost Dog on 6/27 @ 11:08 am #
“Has anyone seen DougJ around lately? I swear, no one could be this stupid by accident.”
Hear! Hear!
Comment by McGehee on 6/27 @ 11:18 am #
That line by Troggy reminds me of a scene in the TV remake of the old “Untouchables” TV series (resulting from the success of the movie with Sean Connery and that “Waterworld” guy).
In the scene, an activist tells a union member, “The only thing about which Al Capone and I agree, is the constitutionality of the 18th Amendment.”
Whoever wrote that line is probably still writing for TV even now, still utterly unaware of the depth of his stupidity.
Comment by Roboc on 6/27 @ 12:52 pm #
McGehee, engaging it is useless. It constantly shifts memes when losing an argument. Although, I haven’t heard the Christians are [fill in the blank], today.
Karl put up a good playlist in his “TGIF…” post, so I’m going to spend the majority of my Friday listening to music. Have a good one.
BTW, Robert Stack was great in the TV series of “The Untouchables.”
Comment by lee on 6/27 @ 1:07 pm #
I say we let Indonesia extradite Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani.
Comment by McGehee on 6/27 @ 4:12 pm #
Alas, I’m too young to remember that one — and in the remake William Forsythe as Capone outshone the good guys, which is undoubtedly why he’s the only actor from that series whose name I remember.