The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Asylum: Beehive or Bali?
You've got to admit, Utah is a special place.

Where else would five Blackwater security guards, accused of turning their machine guns and grenade launchers on a crowd of unarmed civilians, choose to surrender to the FBI in hopes of getting a sympathetic jury of Iraq War supporters and gun lovers?

Again life imitates art, or in the case of Utah, life imitates comedy. In a recent episode of Tina Fey's 30Rock, Alec Baldwin as Jack confronted on-the-lam white-collar criminal Gavin Volure (Steve Martin) and said:
I thought by now you'd be some place where U.S. law can't reach you—like Bali or Utah.
I guess the Blackwater defense team was watching.

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