Jack Kingston: “Well, that is just to get you a place in line, and sometimes, if you want to pay more, it can influence the verdict. And…”

“Well, that is just to get you a place in line, and sometimes, if you want to pay more, it can influence the verdict. And the gentlewoman has pointed out that the families back home, the spouses and the children who are waiting while the loved ones locked up in Ecuador or somewhere in South America, they do not know what is going to happen. This is an American's worst nightmare. It is bad enough being in jail, innocent; bad enough certainly when you are guilty, but at least in America you know you are going to have a fair trial. But when you are in a foreign country, you do not have that assurance. You made the statement, and I agree with you completely, that drug laws cannot be adequately or fairly addressed without judicial improvements, including training for police and judges, because we do not want to go and impose our will on other countries, but at the same hand when it affects American citizens, then we have an obligation, and that obligation, we want to work through diplomatic channels, and you certainly have done that. But at the same hand you have to have an urgency to you to say, you have got Americans over there, you got to bring them back because the next person could be someone you know.”