Why in the name of Grover friggin’ Nordquist was Colorado Attorney General John Suthers flown to Saudi Arabia—on the taxpayers’ dime—to justify the sentence of a Coloradan of Saudi descent convicted of keeping a slave?
As David Harsanyi quips in his Denver Post column, which deftly details the story of Suthers, State, and Homaidan Al-Turki, Colorado resident and son of a Saudi imam: “Wouldn’t it have made more sense to dispatch Suthers to ask the questions?”
Indeed. I mean, what’s the worst that can happen? The Saudis decide to back terrorism? Or maybe cut off funding for all those community centers and mosques they’ve been building here—each of which is provided with marketing material and weekly Wahabbist sermons?
Jesus. Maybe next State can compel Danica Patrick to sojourn in Riyadh to “justify” why its okay for women to drive in the States, and why men of Saudi extraction can’t just, you know, gun them down in traffic. Provided, of course, Ms Patrick promises to keep her helmet, gloves, and boots on, that is…
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update: Plagiarizer!
I know! Protein Wisdom had that story a few days ago!
Three posts in two days. You working again?
Not that everyone doesn’t enjoy the guestbloggers.
No, not yet. Just been way behind on the news. David sent me a link to his column. I didn’t catch the story here. Must have been on one of the days I was out all day.
Hell, I missed the Michael Richards thing, and my wife had to tell me Robert Altman died.
I’m sorry, did you say something else?
Crap. I’ve been exposed as an anteplagiarizer. Tap Akroma and summon Sock Puppet Army.
It all depends on the character and personality of John Suthers, which I know nothing about.
If Suthers had the cojones to tell King Whatsislam that, regardless of what goes on in Saudi Arabia, slavery is not permitted here, an Indonesian maid is equal before our law to a (grand-)son of Abdulaziz ibn Saud, and we consider them a pack of slimeballs for thinking otherwise, the trip may have done some good. I have long thought that we ought to be buying commercial time on al Jazeera and similar outlets to put that message over. Of course we’d have to shoot Pinch and a horde of people with PhDs first, but a thing worth doing is worth doing well…
On the other hand, I have long had a vast suspicion of the State Department, initially raised by Keith Laumer and confirmed by my occasional brushes with its low-level functionaries. If, at the behest of the striped-pants pussies, the trip consisted of apologizing for American insults to the grandeur of Saudi royalty, and Suthers went along with that, canvas and quicklime are the proper prescription.
Regards,
Ric
Speak for yourself. Many of us have just about stopped coming around.
I think a tersely worded letter to the embassy with the US Constitution attached, Thirteenth Amendment highlighted, is sufficient.
Does that qualify as a pre hoc argument?
I’m more of a tar and feather man, m’self.
Another satisfied customer.
Post triptophan cunundrum: left with the image that Jeff copied a p[ost on… um … his own weblog. Very confusing.
Ric, I’m with you. Haven’t we reached a point where this long standing fiction that the Saudi’s are our “friends” and ourt “allies” is crumpled and torn? Perhaps more than any single nation on earth the Saudis, through their mosque and madrassa school building programs, have fertilized the fields of youth that grow radical jihadists. I think thsat we started to figure that out when the prince camer to NYC after 9/11 with a fat check and an admonition that we were partially to blame because of our policies in Palestine (Rufy’s best moment telling the prive to stuff his check.)
This is the activist resistance part: it is entirely unacceptable for either shari’a law or arab culturural norms to play any part in western life anjd law. Proclaimj it.
It would be nice to sort by poster.