Grooverider Sentenced to Four Years

[DesyGn]

This is just f#cked up ....

Learn the laws of the country you travel to.

[Xish]

Indeed, that saddens me. The UAE was meant to be leading the Middle East out of Saudi style laws and politics. Fuck.

Definitely at a loss of words right now, /sigh, way to go Arabs, once again making us look great in the eyes of the rest of the world.

/sigh

[Jellybean]

Originally Posted by bshieh

wtf are you talking about dude....

is it just me, or did that make NO sense whatsoever?

i'm trying to decode it as well.


damn i've seen alot of stupidity today! not just online either. i think the weekends bring them out :/ BAH!

[Thunders]

Originally Posted by Xish

God I love ignorance. You do realize that there are 41 states with a mandatory minimum sentence, meaning if you get caught with anything, even shake or seeds you get a year in jail and a $1000 fine. And anything police officers may deem as paraphernalia will do the same for you. The UAE is one of the countries in the Middle East who are promoting tourism and drawing in billions and billions of dollars worth of revenue as well as building things that are way more structurally advanced than anywhere else in the world. God forbid they have strict drug laws because they want to keep their country clean. Thats one thing you have to understand the UAE is strict on drugs because they are HUGE on alcohol.

As for the rape and sodomy charges, you're thinking of Saudi Arabia which charged a woman who was raped with rape because she was alone with men. Now Saudi Arabia is a completely different story, Saudi Arabia is basically the head of the Sunni side of the Islam, they also have a reputation for being the most screwed in the head in terms of all the Arab's because of the fact that they are so non-secular.

You need to understand that it's not that Dubai (or the Middle East for that matter) is fucked up, but that people have different world views, different beliefs and different mindsets. You bash the country as being backwards yet it has been noted as one of the best crosses between the Western world and traditional Arabian culture. And if you're that much of a pothead that you need to take weed with you wherever you go then you should seriously do something with your life before bashing other countries for wanting to keep their country clean and free of drug involvement.

It's like Ron Paul said "we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting." Remember, the great land of America has done some fucked up things in it's time. Guantanamo Bay? Jena 6 just to name a few?

Next time think before you decide to call a country with a different culture and different people backwards.

if dubai doesnt get you texas will.

[smoketrails]

i think its more jacked that you can be jailed if drugs are in your system... could you imagine smoking some pot 3 weeks before you even got there... and being jailed for that?

it also worries me that they have equipment that can find .003 grams of pot on you... if they can find that... what cant they find =/