The US Foreign Service looked the other way while my friend was brutalized in Brazil

[TSLexi]

This has to be the strangest thread that I have read in a long time.

Brazil has no right to be unjust and immoral just because they say they're sovereign. We have the Fourth Fleet in position, gunboat diplomacy will make them think twice about brutalizing an American, or anyone else.

 

[TSLexi]

You're calling good evil!

You're calling me insane because I want to fight injustice, destroy oppressive governments, and rescue the helpless! You're calling good evil!

 

[Cissy]

You're calling me insane because I want to fight injustice, destroy oppressive governments, and rescue the helpless! You're calling good evil!

War inherently harms the innocent---it perpetuates injustice.

War enables and empowers oppressive governments--you will justify both governments becoming more oppressive.

War targets the helpless; it doesn't save them.

There are no guarantees in war. It's not a 20 minute cartoon where the "heroes" never are harmed and the "villains" get their comeuppance".

But as you continue to demonstrate, this is all a fiction of your creation. Not a shred of evidence---and you're certainly *not* using the resources already available to you even if this *were* a real occurrence.

What rational person logs onto an Internet forum and demands that strangers rally around her cries for war to "save a friend"?

I can think of ten things off of the top of my head that I would have done before now.

For one, I'd be so busy working as many hours as I could to raise money for his release, that I wouldn't have time to troll Internet forums. How many extra part time and on call gigs have you picked up to pay for the release of your "friend" for whom you claim to care so much, in addition to whatever you do full time?

 

[TSLexi]

I have been working with my friends and family. Stop assuming things about people

 

[Cissy]

I didn't pressure him. Stop assuming.

Uh-huh. You'll attempt pressure strangers on the Internet to do your bidding, but not your *dear Friend*, whom you care so much about but haven't bothered to earn the money to get him out of a known h***hole a year later? Is that the real reason why he's still there? He was useful for a free ride to Brazil, but you can't possibly be expected to help him out financially?

How many part time jobs have you picked up for the express purpose of setting aside enough money to get your "friend" out of his predicament? How much have you managed to save in the past year to donate towards his plight?

Or are you so selfish that you would rather others sacrifice their lives than you sacrifice your Benjamins?

If your friend is real, I'm feeling sorry for the poor guy.

 

[tod evans]

You're calling me insane because I want to fight injustice, destroy oppressive governments, and rescue the helpless! You're calling good evil!

No young lady you want others to fight your wars for you....

Are you the spawn of a politician?

 

[Cissy]

I have been working with my friends and family. Stop assuming things about people

Clearly not, or you wouldn't have time to try to incite a war.

I'm willing to bet you've never gone to the media with your little fiction, despite the clear newsworthiness of an American citizen in foreign custody, since you still have failed to produce a single article, interview, or video chronicling what happened.

Moreover, you haven't bothered to work your arse off to raise the needed money. You've made that perfectly clear in this thread. Multiple times.

 

[Cissy]

No young lady you want others to fight your wars for you....

Are you the spawn of a politician?

More likely a bored kid who thinks he's/she's being clever and is besting all the adults around him/her.

 

[Zippyjuan]

How would invading Brazil help you, Alexis? Would they suddenly release all prisoners? Say "Oh no- we can't let this happen ever again! We are sorry". This whole thing is pretty silly. You wanted attention and got some. If your prescription of how to deal with the situation was not so extreme you might have gotten more sympathy.

 

[Working Poor]

I can't believe you called the police in Brazil. What were you thinking? Unless you find an official to bribe you might as well face the fact that your friend is going to have to serve his sentence. The moral of this story is never call the cops especially if you are in a foreign country like Brazil with no bribe money. I hope you have someone taking him food each day.

 

[Cissy]

I can't believe you called the police in Brazil. What were you thinking? Unless you find an official to bribe you might as well face the fact that your friend is going to have to serve his sentence. The moral of this story is never call the cops especially if you are in a foreign country like Brazil with no bribe money. I hope you have someone taking him food each day.

He/She likely hasn't thought of that. Or the possibility that whomever brings him food may have to be bribed and/or bring a bribe to ensure that the food isn't confiscated by the guards.

I think it far more likely that no one is rotting in a Brazillian prison. Really--none of the OPs friends or family members, or the allegedly imprisoned victim's family members went to the local American media to report the story? No one? Are we to believe that they are more trusting of the generosity of police in a third world nation than America's media?

I also find it hard to believe that her Brazillian friend didn't warn her *against* going to the Brazillian police or that she didn't know how corrupt police are in third world countries.

More likely, the OP is a bored child looking for something to do over Thanksgiving break.

 

[tod evans]

I got this in a P/M last night?


Looks like she wasn't always a "young lady". The thread here gives you a bit of background.

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forum...?f=14&t=217511

It provides background to this:
http://ads.okcimg.com/profile/TSLexi?cf=profile_similar

and this: http://www.es.transgays.com/escort/t...6#.VHptWNLF8xg

I think I know what the "inappropriate touching" was- checking for "man junk". Definitely a "drama queen".

[edit]

Wierd!

None of those links work now but the first did last night before I crashed?

Can't find it on the wayback machine either.....:o

Maybe I've been spammed? I'm not 'puter literate enough to chase it down...

[edit-2]

Do yourself a favor and don't Google the OP's handle!

 

[Suzanimal]

PM me your number, I may be able to help...or at least help pass the next two years.

I had no idea you were into that Danke.

First and foremost, I am transsexual. So if that's not something you're open to, I completely understand. I was born in the Philippines, but I grew up in southern California. I only know how to say three things in Tagalog, "Hello, how are you", "I'm pretty" and “It’s time to eat.” Of course, the important things . I do live my life for all intents and purposes as female, but I have no intention of getting SRS. I accept that part of me that makes me unique.


http://www.okcupid.com/profile/TSLexi?cf=profile_similar

 

[Acala]

Is this thread for real?

 

[Cissy]

I got this in a P/M last night?


Looks like she wasn't always a "young lady". The thread here gives you a bit of background.

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forum...?f=14&t=217511

It provides background to this:
http://ads.okcimg.com/profile/TSLexi?cf=profile_similar

and this: http://www.es.transgays.com/escort/t...6#.VHptWNLF8xg

I think I know what the "inappropriate touching" was- checking for "man junk". Definitely a "drama queen".

[edit]

Wierd!

None of those links work now but the first did last night before I crashed?

Can't find it on the wayback machine either.....:o

Maybe I've been spammed? I'm not 'puter literate enough to chase it down...

[edit-2]

Do yourself a favor and don't Google the OP's handle!

From the Top Law Schools thread we learn that:

The OP, who had an AA degree (Yet later in the thread, says he/she doesn't even have the degree....), but not a BA/BS at the time of the thread, is angry at her parents for pulling their financial support for college because she "came out". (Because entitlement to parents' money is such a libertarian ideal).

The OP cannot afford her beloved school overseas because of it.

The OP ignores the advice of people in the thread to finish his BS, get a good score on the LSAT, and get into a good law school.

The OP insists that he wants to be a paralegal and read law despite the advice of those who inform the OP that the market is saturated and that this is an unwise career choice.

The OP's parents have ruined his life. (Apparently the OP likes the privileges of adulthood, but not the responsibilities.)

The situation isn't the OP's fault; it's the parents' fault for letting her experience the natural consequences for her actions. (Noticing a pattern....) By the way, if you were my kid and you were in your late 20s/30s and *still* hadn't finished an AA/BA/BS, I'd inform you that you needed to pay for the rest of college yourself, because clearly you haven't been working your tail off to finish your degree if you haven't completed by now. I'm willing to bet that mommy and daddy were tired of you partying on their dime and expecting that the gravy train would continue until you decided you were done partying and ready to grow up.

I'm not a lawyer, but the drama implicit in these two forum posts alone would make me question hiring this person to work for me as a paralegal. I know I would not tolerate an entitlement attitude in a subordinate. Definitely wouldn't want someone trying to incite a war working for me.

The picture that the OP has chosen to paint of himself/herself is not a terribly flattering one, but perhaps it is a genuine one---a late 20s /30 something who is still in school, ignores those with experience in the chosen field as to the best way to achieve her goals, mooches off a friend for a trip to Brazil, gets the corrupt local police involved, is *shocked* at the expected consequence of that decision, and then demands strangers on the Internet to fight a war over it; is angry at his parents for cutting off college support for coming out as a transsexual (and really---most people the OP's age have gotten themselves off the parental teat and are supporting themselves, barring mental illness or some such which prevents them from doing so).

OP, your problem isn't strangers on the Internet. You need to take responsibility for yourself, finish your degree, work full time doing anything that earns you enough money to pay your own bills (note that I did not say "work full time doing only what you *want* to be doing---you don't have that luxury given your clear failure to meet your life goals. Get some work experience doing something else, *then* get a full time job at your dream job once you meet all the qualifications). If you don't want to take out student loans, that's fine--just set aside money for tuition. Set aside extra money from your part time / on call jobs to save your "friend" (whom you haven't bothered to go to the media about OR save up money to rescue for the past year) and enjoy the responsibilities and privileges of being a responsible adult.

Man, this whole affair from the perspective of the "friend" *really* stinks. I'm feeling sorry for that guy, and *really* hope that he is a product of fiction.

 

[Cissy]

Is this thread for real?

If I had a friend rotting in a foreign prison, the *last* thing I would do is to sign up for a random Internet forum a year later and spill my tale of woe, hoping for sympathy and people gullible enough to cry havoc and let loose the dogs of war.

 

[tod evans]

Hell I'm embarrassed for simply saying if she shook her ass I might be convinced to throw a couple of punches on her behalf...:o

Guess if my ol' ass is ever in a Brazilian bar getting flirted with I too will need to do a vagina check before opening either my mouth or my wallet, let along dispensing blows...

Kudos to the locals!

 

[Origanalist]

Is this thread for real?

 

[Cissy]

Hell I'm embarrassed for simply saying if she shook her ass I might be convinced to throw a couple of punches on her behalf...:o

Guess if my ol' ass is ever in a Brazilian bar getting flirted with I too will need to do a vagina check before opening either my mouth or my wallet, let along dispensing blows...

Kudos to the locals!

If the story is true. I suspect not. If it's not, that's one messed up friendship.

(1 year ago)

Friend: So, want to accompany me to Carnival?

OP: I'd love to.

****
Friend: "Get out of here; we've got to get out now."

OP: Get out and get the police, got it.

Friend: Tell me I didn't hear you say---

*****

(Present)

Friend: "So You talked to your friends and family, right? You're finally getting me out of here, right?"

OP: "Well, I have a new scheme. I'm going to see if I can provoke strangers on the Internet to demand the US invade Brazil. The US will win and you'll be set free. Won't that be wild?"

Friend: "That's ridiculous. Even if the US did invade Brazil over mistreatment of prisoners---what do you think Brazil *might* do to prevent the US from completing its objective?"

OP: *blank stare*

Friend: You really don't think the Powers that Be in Brazil aren't willing to terminate their own prisoners, if it would mean they would win the war effort?

OP: But---the strangers. On another forum.

Friend: At least tell me you've spent the last year saving up money so we can bribe the right people.

OP: Right---about that----

 

[NorthCarolinaLiberty]

LOL. Plus rep. This is how it's done!