Dealing with Obienga is actually quite easy, given that he never reads or engages in the slightest amount of thinking. In his arguments, he appears to believe that forceful assertion is a good substitute for those things. If one can get by his poor language and deal with what he is putting out, he will quietly slink away.
Example:
If you read our exchange on the "blooger jailed" thread, Obienga
opens with
MoonKiai, where do you unearth such fictitious hogwash from?
and
I cannot and won't heed your suggestion not to call out asinine BS when it is willfully being spewed.
And how does he propose to do that? He offers us things such as
Did you read the attachment I included? In it you would have seen that a Kenyan sentence for possession of a roll of bhangi is far more lenient than a US mandatory minimum for the same crime.
After he gets slapped around a few times with the facts, his song changes:
The link I provided was only to demonstrate that there were mandatory minimums under US law for certain offenses.
Compare that statement with what he initially wrote and decide for yourself. In any case, a poor dodge, reflecting low-capacity thinking: what would be the point of such a statement? After all, every country has mandatory minimums for some things, e.g. murder.
Another one was this:
If mental illness was a defense for every offense, every court in this world would grind to a screeching halt. I cannot imagine the endless nature of such an excuse for lack of personal responsibility. "My lord, I exposed myself because I was mentally ill", "My lord, I was speeding because I was mentally ill".
A little while later it was:
If he indeed did not loose the mental defense on a technicality or through cross examination that established otherwise, then he should appeal ...
But, never the man to miss an opportunity to state the absurd, he adds:
Has anyone considered the remote possibility that denying him his right to a mental examination (assuming all procedures were followed) could have been done in his best interest to give him and everyone else a way a quiet way out on appeal?
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