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2012-04-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Viktor Bout gets 25 years in prison
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Posted by Steve White 2012-04-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

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Posted by gromky 2012-04-06 04:43||   2012-04-06 04:43|| Front Page Top

#2 OK...so State got their prize. Now what? Swap? Pardon? Early release due to medical condition? If Viktor is truely looking at 25 years there's gonna be some skeletons comming out of closets...literally.
Posted by DepotGuy 2012-04-06 08:00||   2012-04-06 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Victor's father wanted so much for him to enter the Soviet Astronaut program. Unfortunately his first love was automatic weapons.
Posted by Besoeker 2012-04-06 09:17||   2012-04-06 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Bout goes to jail for selling guns to FARC but Eric Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels and he's still the AG. Sounds like we're making a much bigger deal out of this than Bout is worth. I mean, it's not like he's the only arms dealer who ever walked the planet.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-04-06 12:07||   2012-04-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Bout goes to jail for selling guns to FARC but Eric Holder sells guns to Mexican drug cartels and he's still the AG.

It's called eliminating the competition.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-04-06 13:55||   2012-04-06 13:55|| Front Page Top

#6 It's called eliminating the competition.

Yeah. That's kinda what I thought.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-04-06 14:31||   2012-04-06 14:31|| Front Page Top

#7 The former Soviet Air Force officer was arrested in Thailand in March 2008...

This case was left over from the previous administration.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-06 15:03||   2012-04-06 15:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds like we're making a much bigger deal out of this than Bout is worth.

Hopefully we're setting a precedent for when Mexico requests Holder's extradition in a year or two.
Posted by Procopius2k 2012-04-06 15:59||   2012-04-06 15:59|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll never do that because the Forty Families don't want Holder's freedom taken away, they want ours taken away.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-06 16:19||   2012-04-06 16:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Awesome pic of the Mexico flag in the background of el prez's dismissal of SCOTUS authority.
Posted by swksvolFF 2012-04-06 17:36||   2012-04-06 17:36|| Front Page Top

#11 They'll never do that because the Forty Families don't want Holder's freedom taken away, they want ours taken away.

Who are these "Forty Families"?
Posted by Secret Asian Man 2012-04-06 20:50||   2012-04-06 20:50|| Front Page Top

#12 That might not be the proper name. Basically, the more-or-less mostly european descended families who run Mexico.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2012-04-06 21:49||   2012-04-06 21:49|| Front Page Top

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