If you knew, you were about to be arrested by the FBI for possible 20 years..

[Rustyeye77]

Would you run to anywhere-but-here. OR face the music ?.

20 years is a long time... I would disappear to Mexico

[Fullduplexxx]

1. one guy fled to to kenya - kenya arrested him and sent him back

[empedocles]

4. Ya beat me by seconds

[msfiddlestix]

13. Really? I missed that report. To Kenya? That's kind of a weird place to head to if you're a WS.

It seems to me. How would he blend in? LOL.

[Fullduplexxx]

25. Apparently he didnt cause they found him and sent him home

[msfiddlestix]

29. LOL. I want to learn why he chose Kenya

Maybe he went on a mission to find Obama's birth certificate.

[Fullduplexxx]

36. Perhaps he thought he can find it he would come home a hero

[malaise]

31. There are still white racists in Kenya

Many are born there - the majority of them are of British descent

[msfiddlestix]

32. I see. Well, there ya go. Hooking up with his British WS Comrades..

That's kind of interesting though.. it sort of doesn't make sense to me.

Go figure, heh?

[malaise]

33. The British Empire was an evil virus n/t

[msfiddlestix]

35. I'm surprised it has broken ties with the Monarch

at this point. So many other British Colonies have cut off ties.

[malaise]

37. Yes Kenya is a Republic with a ceremonial President

Many former British Caribbean territories still maintain ties with the racists including Jamaica and Barbados. Guyana &Trinidad and Tobago became republics after Independence but Dominica became a republic at Independence.

Barbados is about to remove the Queen and the rest of that shit
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54174794

[Wounded Bear]

47. I'm sure Obama's people helped find him and send him back...

[empedocles]

2. Report here at DU recently that Kenya just extradited a bad guy to US

[NurseJackie]

30. LOL! He should have checked this website...

https://www.offshore-protection.com/offshore-blog/non-extradition-countries-the-best-place-to-run-to

Countries With No Extradition Treaty With US: The Best Places To Disappear Completely

Countries with No Extradition Treaty with the U.S. 2020

Afghanistan
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Benin
Botswana
Brunei
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Chad
China
Comoros
Congo
Djibouti
East Timor
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Georgia
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Indonesia
Ivory Coast
Kazakhstan
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Lebanon
Libya
Madagascar
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Niger
Oman
Qatar
Russia
Rwanda
Samoa
São Tomé & Príncipe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Togo
Tunisia
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
UAE
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Vietnam
Yemen

[malaise]

34. I'm betting he headed for a social media friend's hideout

These fools are naive

[Cinnamonspice]

43. I cannot see myself preferring Saudi Arabia over prison.

Vatican City, here I come.

[empedocles]

45. Point taken

[Rustyeye77]

50. Maldives

nice place

[ret5hd]

3. Good diversion!!!

Now, just between us...where would you go really?

[Rustyeye77]

5. Mexico...small town ...and hide

Just my opinion

[sfstaxprep]

12. Russia Might Be Better Choice nt

[MineralMan]

40. You can't hide in a small town. That's the very worst choice.

It's especially true if you cannot pass as a Mexican citizen. You would be immediately noticed as not belonging there. It is far easier to hide in a large city, frankly.

Why are you thinking about all this, anyway?

[Joinfortmill]

6. Run. If that didn't work - Sing.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. If I was going to prison for 20 years then I'd be stupid enough to deserve prison.

I'm a compulsive rule-follower. If I were being arrested I'd get a good lawyer because it would have to have been a mistake or a frame-up.

[Ferrets are Cool]

17. +1

[mahina]

23. You and me, buddy.

[patricia92243]

8. Run like a scalded dog.

[keithbvadu2]

9. I would apologize like hell, admit the error of my ways, blame my Messiah Trump, and request to go b

I would apologize like hell, admit the error of my ways, blame my Messiah Trump, and request to go back to mommy and daddy.

And later, I would complain about jail living conditions for sympathy.

[Whiskeytide]

10. Mexico's president says we're not sending our best people. n/t

[KentuckyWoman]

28. Duzy.

[FlyingPiggy]

11. I'd face the music bc who the fuck wants to live in Russia, Venezuela, or some

Crap country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty w us?

[RockRaven]

14. The idea of joining Andy and Red down in Zihuatanejo sounds good until you realize

if you really want to avoid extradition you are more likely looking at Russia, most ex-USSR except Baltic, China, Mongolia, 2/3 of African nations, the Arabian peninsula, many of the -stan countries, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and some really tiny countries.

All of North and South America, even Cuba and Venezuela, have extradition treaties with the US.

[Ms. Toad]

15. I wouldn't do anything that would put me away for 20 years -

unless I was engaging in civil disobedience, in which case I would be prepared to do the time.

[AKwannabe]

16. Run Forest! Run!

[demosincebirth]

18. BRAZIL!

[demosincebirth]

24. No extradition treaty with the U.S.

[Blue_true]

19. I wouldn't do something that would get me arrested where the

outcome would be 20 years in jail.

[JI7]

21. Depends on how much money I had . If money was not an issue I would probably

go to Russia or China where they probably do more to prevent US officials from getting around .

[greenjar_01]

22. None of these people are going to get twenty year sentences

The ones who are convicted of assaulting police will get 18 months, tops. The violent entries will get a year. The others will get fines, etc., and little to no jail time.

[mnhtnbb]

46. I agree. If they were black, they'd get maximum sentences.

These little white boys and girls will get minimum sentences and minimum fines.

[greenjar_01]

48. They haven't been super policed since they were children

So they likely have little in the way of records. Sentencing disparities also mean that they would have had alternative sentencing and records expungement.

That said, we often hear the maximum possible penalties as a matter of journalistic (mal)practice, when the actual likely sentences are much, much lower according to the ordinary guidelines. It's the general racist perceptions of judges and prosecutors and the disparity in policing practices (i.e., minoritized communities are more aggressively policed) that exacerbates sentencing disparities.

[onethatcares]

26. no where to go

where you don't stand out.. One of those, "hey, look some American sounding idiot just showed up and needs a place, a job, transportation, food and a place to store their guns. Does your uncle still have that shed in the pasture?"

and

since money talks, the natives will be talking you out of yours the minute you hit their streets.



Just my thoughts.

[Rustyeye77]

27. So face the music and up to 20 years ?

not great choices but i see your point.

[MineralMan]

39. It would never come up. I don't break laws.

So, I won't have to think about that.

[Cinnamonspice]

42. Neither do I.

Unless you want to count my traffic tickets, which it's been over 10 years since I've had one.

This is for make believe.

[MineralMan]

44. Well, I have enough likely things I have to worry about.

So, I don't worry about things that will never happen. I would never do something illegal that might send me to prison for 20 years. Or for any time at all, really.

It's foolish, though, to think a person could run off to another country and hide. Strangers are noticed, especially if they aren't fluent in the local language.

[Cinnamonspice]

41. I would probably face the music.

I don't have the resources to just make a new life in a foreign country.

Also, if I did something really awful, I might feel I should be punished for it. I'd get into prison and be like "What was I thinking?"

[Rustyeye77]

49. Tough choice, isnt it

[NotASurfer]

51. Ever watch the series "I (almost) Got Away With It"?

Usually they don't. Getting caught a week or so after making a run for it doesn't make "almost" IMO. Since most of these people happily left video, audio, texts, DNA, and carried cell phones that were traced by automated communication equipment in the Capitol, I don't think most of them will get very far.

Maybe there are a few a consummate primitive survivalist who can live off the land using stone tools, but otherwise you eventually run out of money, friends, safe houses, clothes, bullets, or whatever you needed for your plan to work. And I think most of this group just can't think things through very well, like planning for the collapse of civilization by stocking up on canned food only to realize their plan requires electric can opener when a natural disaster kills the power for a week

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

52. Anyone seen Jenna Cudd lately? nt