When Human Rights Petitioners go too Far...
Topic: Weird Shit

While we're not fans of the ACLU, we believe that there is a need for them every now and then throughout our history. However, the case we are going to be describing in a moment is one of those where human rights suits went way too far and have become a parody of themselves.

The country is Germany will be forced to pay restitution to a Sierra Leone man who was forced to upchuck a baggie of cocaine after he was arrested for selling drugs. The man sued for suffering "inhuman and degrading treatment."

This is why drug laws are not strong enough throughout the world. The doctor who inserted the tube through the man's nose and filled his stomach with the solution that made him vomit the baggie was using a medical procedure instead of simply taking a ball point pen and ramming it down the guy's throat, which would have been easier and more cost effective. Sometimes we've done that just so that we could drink more in one night, so how is that degrading?


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