>> They wouldn't have jailed that guy in Britain recently for selling meat
>> by the pound.  And it's a violation of human rights that they did.

> Anyone who makes a laughing stock out of his own country deserves to be
> locked up for many, many years.

Leaving the choice of units up to the individuals involved does not make
a country laughable.  But I would certainly laugh at a country so hung up
with self-importance that it jails people for a trivial reason like this.

> If an American embarrassed America in any way, such as burning a US flag in
> front of a TV camera, you would expect him to go to jail - violation of
> human rights or not.

On the contrary.  If he did, I'd be in front of that jail with a flag and
match of my own.

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