re: 3 US governors ask Turks and Caicos to release Americans detained over ammo

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I don't disagree, but there is a line to be drawn between generally reasonable punishment and losing over a decade of your life in prison because you left a few stray bullets in your bag by accident.

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In the end we just don't have to be ideologically consistent.

Those guys are "ours" and T&C is "them." It's perfectly reasonable and sound to favor us over them even if we acknowledge these guys screwed up in some limited fashion.

Throwing power and weight around is the natural and historic condition of negotiations and we have leverage over T&C. Perfectly fine to use it here, IMO.