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Old 08-06-2022, 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Keefelane66 View Post
I have a feeling if she was white, definitely would be a different story.
Marc Fogel would likely agree with you. Nothing whatsoever is being done for him and he only had "medical marijuana", not hashish oil.

"An American educator imprisoned in Russia said he feels “hurt” to be overlooked as the Biden administration works to bring Brittney Griner home, arguing that educators “are at least as important” as basketball players.

Marc Hilliard Fogel, 61 — who was arrested last August at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport for trying to enter the country with about 20 grams of medical marijuana — worries about his own fate after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken revealed that the US made a “substantial proposal” to bring home Griner and ex-Marine Paul Whelan.

“That hurt. Teachers are at least as important as bballers,” Fogel wrote in a letter sent to his home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, of the news reports of the possible exchange for convicted “Merchant of Death” Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout."

From: Teacher in Russia prison blasts Biden over Griner
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