Sahwa‘Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain’: Toronto sex store receives letters from U.S. Department of War
AkasazhIt’s not very clearly written. I’m left wondering who shipped the articles to Bahrein, as the company does not ship there. Also there’s lots of meandering and rephrasing.
WesDym@Akasazh Shipping to the US includes shipping to US military service stations (through central distribution facilities in the US). That is, from their perspective they're shipping to the US, which they do. But if it's to a US military recipient, it might physically go anywhere in the world.
Nevertheless, the US tries to respect the laws of host countries. These materials are allowed in the US, but not Bahrain. This whole debacle resulted from some odd legal and logistical over-laps.
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@Akasazh 2/ The US is asking the shipper to proactively enforce Bahrain's laws on their behalf, but that is not the shipper's job, because the shipper is not sending it there, but instead to the US. They're right to mock US authorities for these stern letters. It's the US military's job to enforce that and deal with whomever made the order, who should have known better.
In many ways, though, this is typical of military bureaucracy, in nearly any country.