Michael Fay Case

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Should the U.S Have Gotten Involved With the Michael Fay Case? Michael Fay was charged with theft and vandalism and was sentenced to six strokes of a cane in Singapore. The U.S had gotten involved and reduced the strokes to four. But, should they have gotten involved in the first place. The U.S shouldn’t have gotten involved because he was under Singapore’s laws, he admitted his crimes, and him and his parents should have taken the punishment and gotten on with their life. Since Michael Fay was in Singapore when he committed the crimes, he was under Singapore’s laws, and therefore the U.S should have just stayed out of his business. “The long and short of it is that he broke a law of the land he was in and paid the price,” (p. 1, pg. 1 of
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