Immediately sentenced to 10 years in prison!
“That’s illegal?” is the first thing I thought after reading the My LA headline Newport Beach man pleads guilty to waterboarding newlywed wife. “Waterboarding is illegal?” Then I realized the story was not about surfing but continued reading anyhow.
A 37-year-old man accused of waterboarding and beating his 65-year-old wife of two months in Newport Beach pleaded guilty Monday and was immediately sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Richard David Schlosser II pleaded guilty to criminal threats, false imprisonment and corporal injury of a spouse, and admitted sentencing enhancement allegations of committing a crime while on bail. As part of the plea deal, a felony count of torture and a sentencing enhancement for causing great bodily injury to the victim were dropped.
From Jan. 5 through the next day, Schlosser attacked his bride for hours, while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Senior Deputy District Attorney Mark Geller said.
“He did this for hours,” the prosecutor said. “He kept her captive in the apartment for hours … He actually waterboarded her.”
At some point, after he “sobered up,” the victim managed to contact a friend, who called police, Geller said. The victim had to be hospitalized for her injuries, according to the prosecutor.
For sure he surfs. How do I know? Because he lives in Newport and looks like this.
But I bet he surfs in Huntington and I bet he rides an epoxy Rockin’ Fig. Or maybe a Lib Tech waterboard.
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will he vote for bolsonaro?
She got barrelled.
why do i see so many lib techs on the used rack?
Forgive me if this has been discussed before, but do you and Derek own only Napolean Dynamite and Wolves of Wall Street on iTunes so you can grab screenshots from just those movies?
So you’re telling she is single now?
He’s 37. She’s 65. Let me guess. He was couch surfing at a friend’s house. Well, not his friend’s house per se but his friend’s mom. Thought she was his friend’s roommate. Honest mistake perhaps. He falls in love. She only worries about falling. As it turns out, water boarding really is a gray area of the law.
Would it help if the term « water torture » was used or as the CIA described it as an “enhanced interrogation technique “ to give the detainee the impression that he / she may drown ?
“Gray” was alluding to her being 65.
I have zero problem with waterboarding being employed as an interrogation technique used against an enemy combatant in a military setting. It’s effective proven to provide valuable intelligence without physical mutilation/disfigurement.
I just have a problem when we change the names of verbs and nouns to hide the hideous reality of armed conflict ……… collateral damage , friendly fire , water boarding etc . A friend , while working on his doctorate in the 70s in England was playing football with academic / political refugees ( victims of government torture ) from South America and described them as ghosts, both physically and emotionally broken .
I agree with you that it is cruel when a government acts (torture/imprisonment/murder) against it’s own citizenry as a means to maintain power and squash dissent.
War is a messy business. The detainees at Gitmo were captured following military engagements. Sure, there were exceptions and the waters got murky when dealing with an American/British/Euro citizen who was captured. Waterboarding was not used on every detainee. It was used by the CIA only when they were certain that the detainee knew information that would not be divulged without advance interrogation techniques including waterboarding. At that point, I don’t care if it’s called torture or not. As an enemy combatant, or however we want to label a person that armed themselves with intent to kill American/British/Australian military personnel, that combatant should not be afforded much in the way of protections under the law. While the Geneva (3&4) Convention address torture, i don’t believe it contemplated the dynamics of an asymetrical conflict. The program resulted in intelligence leading to the killing of OBL. Heck, while Obama made a promise during his campaign to close Gitmo, during his 8 years in office, Gitmo remained open. Trump inherited roughly 40-45 detainees at Gitmo when he took office.
Thanks for the discussion 02 .
Thank you. No one’s ever referred to me as oxygen (O2). Makes a man feel needed.
After reading several of your comments, it’s pretty clear the brainwashing has worked. Advice… throw the TV out the window. No charge for the advice.
My TV isn’t that smart. It’s an old Vimio. Its not one of those new-fangled contraptions watching and listening and stuff. Could I just throw you out the window?
You still feel pretty darn safe over in Europe? Immigrants and other stuff that all the righties speak of and march against setting any alarms off in your head?
Mate I am an immigrant and and much more afraid of a well organized New Right in Europe than people like myself ?
ha. totally understand. was watching some undercover thing about woman rights in France in certain neighborhoods, the reporters were being hassled for going into certain coffee shops etc. with their hidden cameras. Just wondering about your experiences.
I went to Egypt for a month in 91 and had the best non surfing holiday of my life . Really felt very safe there after a few days of acclimatization and had a ball chuckling with the people I met from very different socio-economic levels . In the 25 years that I’ve have spent in Europe I personally have never felt threatened .
The problem is you have not figured out yet whom your true enemy is! Travel the globe…most cultures put the States to shame.
I’ve travelled the globe and experienced many different cultures. Unlike you, I recognize that cultures around the world have had ample time to distinguish themselves, having been influenced by trade, migration and you best believe it, war. Naming an enemy is most often a matter of convenience rather than some innate truth.
Get some sleep Wake up, you look tired.
Well, than just do some research. In a kind way!
Research what? If you say “who my true enemy is”, I’m gonna reach through the computer and slap the retard out of you.
How about you do some research on how to successfully have multiple accounts Bushman because so far you’re doing a shit house job of it.
Even from this side of the two-way mirror you can spot a Bushman account by the disabled profile link on his disqus handle. Light gray vs. Black text colour.
Wake up, Solo, Corporate mind, Laura (that one is funny)
Richard David Schlosser II… that’s the problem right there. What’s with Americans calling their offspring after themselves? The entitlement and ego attached to that could only come from douchebag parents hence having a fucking douchebag of a son.
It’s reserved for Kings and Queens in the rest of the World.
This is standard order for the Orange County Store bought fake blondes. Once they have the credit card it’s Max them cards out….. get to work guys! No surfing for you. T&A cost bank in Fake County!
Waterboarding ? Isn’t it the name of an American Surf School in Guantanamo Bay , Cuba ?
Waterboarding, while controversial, provided valuable actionable intelligence necessary to kill/capture some very bad people. IMO it doesn’t rise to the level of torture when utilized in a military setting.
The title for this article could have read:
“ All is fair in Love and War “ ?
That’s funny but no, in this instance, his actions of waterboarding etc are reprehensible and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
In God We Trust ? Therefore John 8:7 should be relevant in all cases to all men and women and children or not at all ?
Googled it. It looks like John 8:7 is a passage recounting something Jesus said. God on the other hand has no problem with annihilating, smiting or war. God is the best smiter with a wooden mall on the softball team.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone .