For example, Christopher Tappin was taken into custody in Texas, and now his poor wife is discovering that Texas isn't at all like Manhattan. You'd think someone would have put up a sign at the border, for feck's sake, to warn the man that he's not in New York City any more.
How about some kind of warning? Why not proclaim, in reflective lettering: "You are now entering Texas, a highly conservative state in which dealings with America's enemies will be treated far more harshly than in, say, liberal New York City."
Then Mrs. Tappin wouldn't have been shocked that her husband, arrested for trying to smuggle batteries for surface-to-air missiles to Iran, wasn't granted bail.
She wouldn't be shocked that her hubbie is behind bars in El Paso and likely to remain there.
How will he bear up, she'd like to know. He's in a cell for 23 hours of the day...ah, and there's the need for another sign.
Some of the other inmates, this being west Texas, are no doubt less than pleased with Mr. Tappin's business strategy. It's more likely that they have friends or family in the military, as compared to, say, the lock-up in New York City. Mr. Tappin is safer in his cell than out of it. But there again, how would Mrs. Tappin know this without some sort of tourist-geared advice?
Friends of Mr. Tappin are pressurizing David Cameron, but there's not much he can do.
The jail is in west Texas, not Washington, D.C., and it's an election year.
So they can bark all they like about the harmless 65-year-old granddad. The fact remains, he tried to sell military supplies to Iran, and he was arrested in El Paso.
Can someone please advise Mrs. Tappin about the mindset of the jury that will hear her husband's case? Don't want her fainting dead away when he's sentenced to the maximum.
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