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Here's a history lesson for you. The little girl pictured in the middle was burned with napalm during the Vietnam War. She was running from her village naked because her clothing had been burned off her body. The photo was a very famous one at the time, and I remember when it was first released in the press. It's a harrowing image, and a real one. I don't see anything funny about this at all.

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I'm pretty sure more than half the people reading this thread instantly knew from which pic. that girl was retrieved. Quality history lesson, though.

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That's not the charge he plead to. He plead guitly to
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sexual battery and annoyance or molestation of a child.

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The term "child" and not "minor" is used.

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I don't think it's meant to be funny. What IS funny though is wearing the American flag like a scarf. That [censored] is hilarious!

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I just read two pages so i just hope im not the first to say this, but what kind of sick country has something like a 'deportable offense' for someone who has been a legal resident since he was nine. No one finds this the least bit disturbing? From a sociologic point of view he is an american as much as the next guy. You can't send such a fellow to a desert he probably only knows from a postcard. Is this law rooted in some post-9/11 bush-administration paranoia or been there for longer? In my country only rightwing-extremists dare suggest such ludicrousy. Crazy stuff, and i thoroughly dislike sheikhan from the moment i saw him on the wsop fwiw. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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I agree, very ridiculous to deport a resident.. He is an American who happens to be born in Iran. I think the country being Iran has something to do with this.

p.s. he's a scumbag if he really molested a child.

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Wow, the immigration system is very efficient. A decade later they take action, sounds like Sheik's newfound stardom makes this a case to build a legal career on

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fyp.

There's a lot of sketchiness going on here. I just spoke to Shiek...the Review Journal never contacted him for comment. He's figuring some things out now and then might make a public statement depending on what his lawyers instruct him to do.

I think the folks calling him a child molester would be well advised to hold their opinions until more information comes to light. I'm not saying he's guilty or innocent of anything, just that we don't know anything yet.

Gary

Re: Shawn Sheikhan getting deported... for a misdemeanor ????
 

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lmao @ america, the dumbest country in the world

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lmao at people who think this.

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I just read two pages so i just hope im not the first to say this, but what kind of sick country has something like a 'deportable offense' for someone who has been a legal resident since he was nine.

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not to be a nit, but according to the article, he's only been a legal us resident since 1983. if he's 38 years old now, that means he was much older than that.

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No part of this isn't hilarious.

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This country will be no different from Nazi Germany in 5 years if the status quo is maintained. I'm not the biggest Sheikhan fan, but this is so random and arbitrary that it just makes me sick. I really don't get the sense that it was some kind of hard-core molestation, or else he woulda done a hell of a lot more than nine mo.s. Prolly was a 15-16 yr. old who wanted it & they both knew it. Sheik should fight this with everything he has.

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Yeah, just like Nazi Germany. All of you morons who say that have no idea how offensive it is or how retarded you sound when you diminish what happened during the Nazi reign by comparing it to modern day USA. Oh man, America is deporting a non-US citizen who committed a crime, this is just like how the Nazis killed all of those innocent people. I don't think that he should be deported at all, but get out of your "USA is fascist" bubble and take a reality check. For what it's worth, he should have been smart and applied for citizenship as soon as he could, just like any legal immigrant should, but it's too bad that it caught up to him with a wife and child.

Edit: Also I'm guessing you just don't know what it means, but to keep the status quo would mean that America already is like Nazi Germany, and will continue to be in 5 years. My reply was for all of the people who say "at this rate, in 5 years..." To say status quo in this situation is just even more idiotic.