Wrongfully detained in Russia but don't be such a jailbird about it

Return to the land of everlasting consumerhood which is 2/3 of the Keynesian Marxist economy at play.

‘House is gone. Cars are gone’: Paul Whelan’s life one year after his release from a Russian prison

For Paul Whelan, returning to life in the United States after more than half a decade of Russian imprisonment has been “interesting” – and not without its challenges.

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“For people like me who have come home after five-and-a-half years, we really don’t have very much. House is gone. Cars are gone. Employment’s gone. No health insurance,” he said.

Wrongfully detained or not, don't be hanging out with fellow jailbirds and expect too much sympathy. Nobody else can afford to keep and maintain a house and cars for 5 or 6 years in absentia either. Your former job or position or even career is just not likely to even exist anymore. Sorry, hate to break it to you, but things have just been getting really, really bad and progressively worse and much worse here in the U.S. if you were gone that long.

Whelan has been working with Michigan Democratic Reps. Debbie Dingell and Haley Stevens and others to pass a law “that would fund the medical, dental and psychological care listed in the Levinson Act that was never funded, ...

The rest of us don't have any of that sort of "care" either. It's offered, all right, but only in bad faith. We just get court-supervised access to narcotics if we want it, but no other "healthcare" as such is available in the U.S. unless you're rich and you can afford plastic surgery or laser eye surgery or something like that out of pocket. The docs deal the dope and the cops are there to make sure the deal goes down as prescribed. What you may have thought existed in the U.S. just doesn't exist anymore if it ever did. Most if not all healthcare at the doctoral level is only an illusion. Doctors are merely gatekeepers to the narcotics because the money follows the consumer demand and everything else is a fraud.

Keeping in touch with former inmates Whelan keeps in touch with fellow inmates who were imprisoned with him in a Russian penal colony in Mordovia.

Quite the jailbird.

There’s a sense of camaraderie among the former detainees, Whelan said, likening it to “the Island of Misfit Toys” from the Christmas movie “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” //“It’s a unique club of people from all different backgrounds were brought together not by their choosing, and we have shared experiences,” Whelan said.

There are criminals in Russia, and many of them do go to prison for the crimes they commit. This guy is doing too much jailbirding on a U.S. account. The Solntsevskaya Bratva and other Russian organized crime brotherhoods, w​ith which Whelan associates and stays in contact, are not suddenly benign or benevolent, that U.S. Democrats should be able to keep such close company with them and evade the U.S. justice system.