Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean labor camp. Can this be happening? There are two things we can do:

1. Pray
2. Write letters. I’m sure Amnesty International will inform the masses as to where and to whom we can send letters to beg for the release of the women. I’ll let you know when I know.

Below is what Gawker had to say about the ordeal, and I agree.

Obviously, this whole thing is a situation fraught with horrendous peril, not only for Ling and Lee, but for the United States in general. One can’t escape the feeling that the convictions of Ling and Lee are less about North Korean law and more just another example of provocation by a renegade country led by a mad man. What Kim Jong Il and North Korea hope to gain by this situation is anyone’s guess, but one can only imagine what sort of horrors take place inside a North Korean labor camp, and we certainly feel that it’s time for the former two-term vice president of the United States to break his silence and start throwing his weight around to crack some serious skulls if he has to in order to get Ling and Lee freed. The Current TV strategy of silence has not worked up to this point and will only continue to reflect poorly on them and Gore going forward.

In the meantime, our thoughts are with Laura Ling and Euna Lee and their traumatized families.

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