American STEPHEN GREATSINGER (Khmer440 Member 'BSCW') Arrested in Cambodia After US Embassy Threats

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He seems to have at least ONE friend left in the world, well at least a Facebook friend. Better than nothing.

Instead of posting inane drivel though (I mean the Facebook poster, obviously), why not spend your time on motivating the US authorities to speed up his deportation? Or doesn't he want to go home for some reason?
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newkidontheblock wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:25 pm
John Bingham wrote:
Greatsinger has admitted to attempting to scale the embassy fence during the incident and was threatened with being shot by an armed guard.
That's insane. There are a few embassies you could probably get away with jumping into for at least a few minutes (Cuban/ German/ Pakistani). The Chinese, French and especially US ones are not advisable! The French Embassy has probably got the nicest forested grounds in the city, they have open days. Otherwise the Legionnaires guarding it might not be much fun to encounter. As far as I know the US embassy is guarded by Marines.
Agreed. US Embassies often operate in hostile parts of the world and often are the target of protests and suicide bombers. Physical security, gates, barriers, etc., tend to be a lot more common.

Security is often handled locally, aka Khmer guards at the US embassy at the front and the outer perimeter. There are only 3-5 marines posted. Usually patrolling sensitive areas such as the ambassador’s living quarters, CIA annex, etc.

Plus there is a marine guard quick reaction force that can deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice to reinforce any embassy in trouble.

Of course the force can be also told not to deploy by the Secretary of State or the President and let the ambassador get killed.
I don't get what all the fuss is about. BSCW has been threatening the US Embassy and staff, and now we're the gossipy bad guys for talking about it. When you climb an embassy wall, especially after making all the threats to them like BSCW has, I'd expect nothing less than to be met with a guard brandishing a gun at you. Seems reasonable to me.
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General Mackevili wrote: Mon Nov 09, 2020 12:19 pm
newkidontheblock wrote: Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:25 pm
John Bingham wrote:
Greatsinger has admitted to attempting to scale the embassy fence during the incident and was threatened with being shot by an armed guard.
That's insane. There are a few embassies you could probably get away with jumping into for at least a few minutes (Cuban/ German/ Pakistani). The Chinese, French and especially US ones are not advisable! The French Embassy has probably got the nicest forested grounds in the city, they have open days. Otherwise the Legionnaires guarding it might not be much fun to encounter. As far as I know the US embassy is guarded by Marines.
Agreed. US Embassies often operate in hostile parts of the world and often are the target of protests and suicide bombers. Physical security, gates, barriers, etc., tend to be a lot more common.

Security is often handled locally, aka Khmer guards at the US embassy at the front and the outer perimeter. There are only 3-5 marines posted. Usually patrolling sensitive areas such as the ambassador’s living quarters, CIA annex, etc.

Plus there is a marine guard quick reaction force that can deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice to reinforce any embassy in trouble.

Of course the force can be also told not to deploy by the Secretary of State or the President and let the ambassador get killed.
I don't get what all the fuss is about. BSCW has been threatening the US Embassy and staff, and now we're the gossipy bad guys for talking about it. When you climb an embassy wall, especially after making all the threats to them like BSCW has, I'd expect nothing less than to be met with a guard brandishing a gun at you. Seems reasonable to me.
But in Cambodia this should be expected and in my eyes , praised , everybody in the world is not “normall” ,
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It appears Stephen Greatsinger is now dying of cancer in Laos. Someone who says she is his wife is pleading with President Biden on Twitter to help him.



'He is your citizen snd got stage 4 melsnoma cancer in laos. No one like take care of him in US. His wife or partner takes care of him . She request if you can send a team to save him or help him get to better hospital in US .Hes bedridden. He is Stephen Greatsinger'
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Sorry that he is dying of metastatic cancer is Laos. Aggressive treatment - surgery, experimental chemo, whole body radiation for the stage 4 cancer costs a fortune with maybe a 20% survival rate (or less) in 5 years. Expensive, painful treatment. This is a man who scaled the walls of the US Embassy because it wasn’t open at a time he wanted it to be. Would he stay the course and take all the treatment or just be wasting everyone’s time?

The poor guy has problems that he should have worked out decades ago. And maybe he wouldn’t be in Laos dying of cancer and having his partner ask President Biden to wave a magic wand and cure him.

These are just my opinions, of course.
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