It does, doesn’t it? I remember reading a good article about this case which I could have sworn was in Lowering the Bar, but I can’t find it there. There was yet another twist, in that her father was fired shortly before she was born, but failed to leave the country, and there was a question as to exactly when he stopped being a diplomat and became a regular illegal alien. Apparently that question of fact was resolved in the government’s favor.
There is this troublesome little sentence, though,
By that measure, her actions are unquestionably treasonous, if she was in fact a citizen. In that case, letting her return to America would be worse for her: treason at least used to be a capital offense.
Personally I get very antsy when governments revoke people’s citizenship for whatever reason, because it’s an effective stripping them of their rights and that’s a power that is dangerous to let governments have.
At least if someone gets sent to prison, they still actually have some rights (not that they’ll get to enjoy them much, but still.)
If I’m driving anyone 120 miles, military or not, there had better be an apology coming. Because that’s a lot of audiobooks and awkward conversations.
Hey, I own copies of Armed and Dangerous, Deadly Doses and Cause of Death (part of the Howdunit Series of writers’ guides) and that has nothing to do with mysterious disappearances in my area, really.
The browser search history for a lot of writers can be appalling if you don’t know they’re a writer.
One of my favorite authors was looking for information on how much damage aquatic life could do to a body that had been tossed in a river 3 days before and asked for help from her Twitter fans. Then there was the search for a poison that wouldn’t have much debilitating effect for a couple hours but would then kill you quickly and rather painfully.
Can you imagine what a LEO looking at that sort of history would be thinking if they didn’t know this was a writer?
And was one found?
Asking for a friend.
Yes, but I don’t remember the name.
And now when someone is looking for a way to murder someone the search will bring them here. You could be saving lives.
Polonium is not far off for that sort of thing, as the FSB has recently shown us.
I have googled everything from “fastest way to kill someone with a knife”* to “old timey condoms.”
And for the record, if you ever get locked in a freezer, you’re probably screwed. (Though a lot of them have safety mechanisms these days.)
Reminds me of this:
*Carotid or jugular. I can’t remember which one’s fastest.
Unless they are a SovCit, FotL, Moorish, etc. Then I’m perfectly OK with it as long as we deport them to North Korea.
IANOM* but I am pretty sure it is either the jugular, or the femoral (upper thigh) which would be most deadly.
* I am not a murderer
The femoral is larger but the jugular is easier to get to.
I would think the carotid would be faster, as that would immediately reduce the blood (and oxygen) going to the brain, so the client victim would be more likely to immediately pass out.
They’re side by side. It’s a two-fer.
I have it on very good authority that it would be most effective if you would cut the carotid artery, just under the left ear.
Why not the right ear? Asking for a friend.
I remember in the LOTR Two Towers commentary when Saruman got shanked by Wormtongue, PJ commented that Christopher Lee, who was in the SOE during WWII, said when they were blocking the scene and rehearsing it told them, “Oh, no, that’s not what a person does when you stab them.”
No further questions were asked.,