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Motorpsycho Nightmare It's 2012, we're told at the start. The U.S. economy has collapsed. Prisons have been privatized. The government rules with an iron fist, and the populace is sedated with violent entertainment. (Wait, this isn't futurism; it's a Daily Kos blog.) On a nouveau Alcatraz called Terminal Island, Warden Hennessey (Joan Allen, merging her purse-lipped Pat Nixon impersonation with the imperious tenseness of Dick Nixon in late-Watergate mode) is in charge of an annual televised car-nage held on a giant track within the prison. In this Death Race, lifers drive the souped...
...named Travis (Justin Mader) and the martial-artistic 14K (Robin Shou). When they're not playing bumper cars, they're taunting one another or spitting in a rival's food - animals marking their turf. Each driver is given a navigator, a babe on loan from a nearby women's prison, and Ames's is Case (Natalie Martinez), who has pneumatic skills of her own. Sitting next to him in their two-seater Ford Mustang GT with the mini-gun .308 and MG-42 8mm. weapons attached to the front, she may be Ames's doom or his salvation...
...Gadd's crisscrossing of Asia started on August 19 when Vietnamese authorities deported him from Ho Chi Minh City after he served 27 months in prison for sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11. But Gadd didn't want to go home to Britain. He refused to board a connecting flight in Bangkok, where Thai immigration authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand...
...Gadd's criminal record is as checkered as his passport. In 1999, a British judge sentenced him to four months in prison after a computer serviceman discovered 4,000 images of child sex abuse on his computer. "I have served my time. I want to put it all behind me and live my life," Gadd told reporters after completing that sentence. But in 2002, after a move to Cambodia, authorities there permanently expelled Gadd from the country as a "preventative measure" to curb childhood sex abuse. In 2005 police in the southern Vietnamese coastal city of Vung Tau charged Gadd...
...compromised the dignity of the Vietnamese people, law and common sense, and therefore it is necessary to punish him," Judge Hoang Thanh Tung said in his ruling, adding that Gadd suffered from "a sickness." Tung ordered him to pay the victims $315, and sentenced him to three years in prison. In February 2007, Gadd's sentence was shortened by three months for good behavior as part of a nationwide Lunar New Year jail amnesty...