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World News See other World News Articles Title: The Rise of China and the Western Inability to Process What is Happening Right in Front of Our Eyes The Meng Wenzhou kidnapping scandal is the most important story happening right now. Much more important than the government shutdown or some incomprehensible gibberish about a Russian conspiracy. It is being dealt with in the most superficial and nonchalant way imaginable, with no one in the media actually attempting to understand what it means. The latest event in this saga is the Chinese decision to execute a Canadian drug trafficker, which is seen as a massive escalation by the Chinese. It is an escalation, how massive it is is not really clear. I wrote yesterday about Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, who was pulled out of jail and resentenced to death after having been sentenced to 15 years last month for drug trafficking. Although China is saying this has nothing to do with the kidnapping of Chinese royal, Huawei founder’s daughter Meng Wenzhou, that is clearly a bit tongue-in-cheek. Obviously, it does relate to that, but the way that it relates to that is what is in question. Basically, sentencing him to a relatively short sentence for having been caught attempting to traffic 500 pounds of crystal meth was a favor to Canada, because previously, Canada has done a lot for China. Any Chinese person caught in a drug trafficking scandal like this would have been executed, all the way down to low-level people who maybe didn’t even know what they were involved in. That is just the way that China deals with crime (I believe it is the correct way, personally). So all that has happened with the resentencing is that China has pulled the favor. It is the precise opposite of “arbitrary.” As far as the Canadian claims that Schellenberg is innocent and was just randomly nabbed by the Chinese – this is clearly false. The Chinese do not have any policy of randomly imprisoning foreigners on false charges – unlike Canada, which kidnaps Chinese people and accuses them of bizarre Iran-related hoaxes. Schellenberg is a life-long criminal, who was sentenced to two years in jail for drug trafficking in Canada in 2012. He had also been caught trafficking as far back as 2003. CBC: A B.C. judge told Robert Lloyd Schellenberg he was lucky to be living in Canada when he sent him to jail for drug trafficking in 2012. As the Abbotsford man faces the death penalty in China, Justice Neill Brown’s admonition now reads like a chilling warning. “Your country deserves much better from you. You are in one of the best places in the world to live,” Brown said as he sentenced Schellenberg in B.C. Supreme Court in Chilliwack. “You are not caught up in Libya or Syria; I do not have evidence of any abuse in your childhood and I accept that you have your own struggles to deal with, but you have to confront those. After all, it’s not as if you are 18, and having to storm Juno Beach.” The journey that carried Schellenberg from that courtroom in the Lower Mainland’s Fraser Valley to the centre of an international story is detailed, in part, in court documents obtained by CBC News. The 36-year-old was sentenced to death Monday in the Dalian People’s Court in China’s northeast province of Liaoning. The ruling came after a sudden retrial of a 15-year sentence for allegedly conspiring with others to smuggle 222 kilograms of methamphetamine from China to Australia in 2014. … Brown sentenced Schellenberg to two years in 2012 for possession of both cocaine and heroin for the purpose of trafficking as well as simple possession of cannabis resin and methamphetamine. Because of time served, Schellenberg’s ultimate sentence was 16 months and 12 days. Schellenberg pleaded guilty to all four counts, which came about as a result of an investigation into a high-volume drug sales operation that saw his apartment in Abbotsford used as a “distribution centre.” According to the reasons for sentence, Schellenberg was on probation at the time that police raided his fourth-floor apartment, seizing $6,080 worth of cocaine and heroin as well as $3,205 in cash from pill profits. The judge said Schellenberg was not considered to have been at the “lower rung” of the operation. His criminal record dates back to February 2003, when he received a six-month sentence for possession for the purpose of trafficking. So the Canadian claim that he is innocent and being unfairly prosecuted by the evil chinks is very difficult to believe, and presumably, an obvious lie. In actual fact, China is a very reasonable country. She allows foreigners to buy drugs for personal use, even though she does not allow locals to do this. They are aware that foreigners use drugs in their country, and could crack down on it very easily, but appear to accept it as “a white people thing,” which isn’t any of their business as long as it is prevented from spilling over to the general population. This policy of the Chinese of turning a blind eye to personal drug use among foreigners presumably leads some foreigners to believe they are pushovers, and to think they could easily traffic 500 pounds of meth to Australia after using Chinese factories to produce it. Presumably, the life-long drug criminal Schellenberg heard tell of this situation, and went to China with that purpose. It makes little sense why a man with repeated drug convictions would choose China as a place to vacation. Maybe if he’d claimed he was working there teaching English and trying to clean-up his life, you would have some kind of argument for the “China set him up” argument (although not really, frankly). But China is not some hot tourist destination, it is actually quite boring. In actual reality, I do not think that Justin Trudeau or anyone else in the Canadian government believes this man is innocent, they are simply using that line to attack the Chinese. I wouldn’t be surprised if Trudeau is shocked by the fact that they made this move, because he is the epitome of a soft little faggot who is self-sheltered from the reality of death. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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