Arnie goes to jail for smoking cigar!

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Terminator risk jail for smoking a cuba cigar in Canada! This must be media hypeded joke? Dont they have better things to write about, or is it so serius, that any american smoking a cigar from cuba, do an illigal act?

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Terminator risk jail for smoking a cuba cigar in Canada! This must be media hypeded joke? Dont they have better things to write about, or is it so serius, that any american smoking a cigar from cuba, do an illigal act?

[url]http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=25cb8a43-659d-4a02-9136-64de717ea68f Wish I could get my hands on a few. Fuck that embargo.

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the kind that can't be found on the shelves of American cigar stores because of a long-standing embargo -- and the kind that Americans aren't legally allowed to smoke, even while away from home.

...from the article.

I'll have to call bullsh*t on that one. I'll mark that one up to Canadian media hype.

They're just trying to make sound like we have it soooo bad here.

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I'll have to call bullsh*t on that one. I'll mark that one up to Canadian media hype.

That pretty much sums it up. Nothing newsworthy seems to be happening here right now so they need to create a story where there isn't one.

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[Andy9o8 2]

A quick Google search reflects an article noting that the US govt recently did, indeed, tighten regulations making it unlawful for Americans to even use Cuban products on foreign soil - such as smoking a Cuban cigar or drinking Cuban rum.
If it's true, and I'm not taking the time to research it further, it's absolutely childish.

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A quick Google search reflects an article noting that the US govt recently did, indeed, tighten regulations making it unlawful for Americans to even use Cuban products on foreign soil - such as smoking a Cuban cigar or drinking Cuban rum.
If it's true, and I'm not taking the time to research it further, it's absolutely childish.

It's just like those motherfuckers saying we can't spend our money in Cuba if we manage to get there, etc. It's a bullshit law that nobody should stand for.

"Wahhhh we don't like communism so we're not going to let you spend money in Cuba wahhhhhh" Grow up you fucking tossers.

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An another case made the news earlier when Hilton-Owned Hotel in Norway Refuses to Host Cuban Delegation!

http://www.pww.org/index.php/article/articleview/10369/1/266/[url]

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making it unlawful for Americans to even use Cuban products on foreign soil

do they even have the authority or jurisdiction to do this? it doesn't seem like this is even legally enforcable.

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do they even have the authority or jurisdiction to do this?

Such quaint old ideas...

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making it unlawful for Americans to even use Cuban products on foreign soil

do they even have the authority or jurisdiction to do this? it doesn't seem like this is even legally enforcable.

It has long been illegal for Americans to spend any dollars in Cuba. Buying cigars in Canada violates that, just as giving money to Al Queda in Cancun is still funding terrorism.

Doesn't mean it isn't stupid, but we're stuck with this until Castro dies, for those Miami Cubans just won't give up the ghost.

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I think it's great that Arni is doing it. It sends a message that not all republicans give a shit about this.

[Zipp0 1]

I think he should be arrested in thrown in jail. Maybe then people will start talking about changing this silly law. I mean, how many of us have never had a cuban cigar at a bachelor party?

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[rehmwa 2]

Maybe if Arnie used it on an intern it would land him in jail......

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the kind that can't be found on the shelves of American cigar stores because of a long-standing embargo -- and the kind that Americans aren't legally allowed to smoke, even while away from home.

...from the article.

I'll have to call bullsh*t on that one. I'll mark that one up to Canadian media hype.

They're just trying to make sound like we have it soooo bad here.

I believe it is in the fine print of your passport. You are bound to all US laws when you travel outside the country. Depending on the severity of the crime, they may pursue you when you return. This is used to snag major offenders (slave trade, abuse of minors, drug trade, etc etc).

During the cigar hype from a few years back, the US reminded people just what the laws were around Cuban cigars, and this did include smoking them while in Canada or Mexico.

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I think he should be arrested in thrown in jail. Maybe then people will start talking about changing this silly law. I mean, how many of us have never had a cuban cigar at a bachelor party?

I prefer cigars from Honduras or Dominican. But I agree, the law is a bit over the top.

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the kind that can't be found on the shelves of American cigar stores because of a long-standing embargo -- and the kind that Americans aren't legally allowed to smoke, even while away from home.

...from the article.

I'll have to call bullsh*t on that one. I'll mark that one up to Canadian media hype.

They're just trying to make sound like we have it soooo bad here.

I believe it is in the fine print of your passport. You are bound to all US laws when you travel outside the country. Depending on the severity of the crime, they may pursue you when you return. This is used to snag major offenders (slave trade, abuse of minors, drug trade, etc etc).

During the cigar hype from a few years back, the US reminded people just what the laws were around Cuban cigars, and this did include smoking them while in Canada or Mexico.

So, students studying abroad don't drink before they are 21? Everyone who goes to Amsterdam avoids the pot smoking? What a joke. What about if you are on the high seas, in no territorial waters?

This kind of stuff just pisses me off.

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the kind that can't be found on the shelves of American cigar stores because of a long-standing embargo -- and the kind that Americans aren't legally allowed to smoke, even while away from home.

...from the article.

I'll have to call bullsh*t on that one. I'll mark that one up to Canadian media hype.

They're just trying to make sound like we have it soooo bad here.

I believe it is in the fine print of your passport. You are bound to all US laws when you travel outside the country. Depending on the severity of the crime, they may pursue you when you return. This is used to snag major offenders (slave trade, abuse of minors, drug trade, etc etc).

During the cigar hype from a few years back, the US reminded people just what the laws were around Cuban cigars, and this did include smoking them while in Canada or Mexico.

So, students studying abroad don't drink before they are 21? Everyone who goes to Amsterdam avoids the pot smoking? What a joke. What about if you are on the high seas, in no territorial waters?

This kind of stuff just pisses me off.

This is about Federal laws (I think). In this case, I'm guessing it has to with consuming goods from an embargoed country.

Our across-the-board restrictions pertaining to Cuba are pretty absurd, especially since the Cold War has been over for 15 years.

Maybe our next President will figure out some way to renew trade relations with them.

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Maybe our next President will figure out some way to renew trade relations with them.

Better answer - Maybe some enterprising domestic tobacco supplier will breed a better leaf. They can market it as Cyuban Cigars.

Then no one will care except those that just have to have an illegal cigar. They can smoke it in their hunting room with the mounts of all the endangered species they killed.

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[Zipp0 1]

The 'forbidden fruit' aspect of cubans makes them taste that much sweeter.

I would not advise anyone to kill an endangered species though.

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So, students studying abroad don't drink before they are 21? Everyone who goes to Amsterdam avoids the pot smoking? What a joke. What about if you are on the high seas, in no territorial waters?

I don't believe there is a federal law against drinking. States set the rules. (But the Feds withhold money if the age limit is under 21)

so unless the students are drinking in Habana, I don't think they have anything to worry about, other than the fact that when they return they may only have easy access to Bud/Coors and wine coolers.

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So, students studying abroad don't drink before they are 21? Everyone who goes to Amsterdam avoids the pot smoking? What a joke. What about if you are on the high seas, in no territorial waters?

I don't believe there is a federal law against drinking. States set the rules. (But the Feds withhold money if the age limit is under 21)

I think that makes it de facto federal law- despite what the lawyers may have to say on it.

We need to get rid of that 'land of the free' BS line. Many other parts of the world (most?) are more free than the USA.

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We need to get rid of that 'land of the free' BS line. Many other parts of the world (most?) are more free than the USA.

Lose the hyberbole. It's not most, it's more many, it's some, and only on these particular sort of rights. They can drink, but if they dare to be a racist nazi lover or holocaust denier, they get tossed in jail.

If those 18-20 yo's didn't manage to drink and drive and die at such a high rate, MADD wouldn't have succeeded.

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When 'land of the free' is in your national anthem, you better damn well mean iit. Ot is that line hyperbole?

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[kelpdiver 2]

Immigration has a cousin called emmigration. When you find a place with superior rights, tell me all about it. A few more years and a new Administration or two and we'll have corrected many of the abuses of the current one. But the right to drink...that one will probably be left as is.

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Immigration has a cousin called emmigration.

Kiss has a cousin called my ass.

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