One of my posters and neighbors just got release from Myanmar

[Reycer]

John Yettaw is a neighbor of mine, (and I still drive his kids on my school bus). Today Sen. Jim Webb secured his release from a Myanmar prison. I'm sure you all have heard of John by now, he's the American that swam the lake to get to Aung San Suu Kyi's house in Burma. Suu Kyi is a very vocal opponent of the government in Myanmar and only had a couple more days of her 5 year (or so) house arrest. She now has 18 more months tacked onto that. There is now a HUGE public outcry saying that the government of Myanmar is just keeping her in her house until elections are over there.

Here is the full story:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elec...est=latestnews

John and his kids literally just live down the road from me.

[lasto]

And what an idiot he is.What did he solve by swimming the lake?
He put Aung San Suu Kyi's life in jepody and as u say he got her more house arrest time.
Personally i would of left him in jail and taught him a lesson.
I wonder what real deal was struck behind closed doors for his release - who or what have the americans sold out this time ?

[Reycer]

Originally Posted by lasto

And what an idiot he is.What did he solve by swimming the lake?
He put Aung San Suu Kyi's life in jepody and as u say he got her more house arrest time.
Personally i would of left him in jail and taught him a lesson.
I wonder what real deal was struck behind closed doors for his release - who or what have the americans sold out this time ?

I know him personally, John is a VERY odd man. A lot of us think that he IS crazy. This isn't the first time he has done something like this. The first time, he went to China with his son (Brian) and got stuck with no money and no way to get back. He finally managed to get Brian back to the US in time for school, but he was stuck until about November or December, he got back just in time to go back out to Myanmar. I hope he's learned a lesson this time, but most of us (his neighbors) seriously doubt it.

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now it's making national and world news, and they are trying to call him a hero. Sad part is he abandoned his kids to go there (for the second or third time).