Thanks for the help, Dumbass

Myanmar (which used to be Burma) currently has under house arrest their foremost democracy activist and government opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The Myanmar military Junta has kept her imprisoned for years in order to suppress the pro-Democracy movement. She was scheduled for recent release when a deluded American religious nut went to Burma and swam to her house to warn her of a message from god that she was going to be assassinated.

(Really? I could've told her she was at risk for assassination.)

The junta of course took the immediate excuse to extend Suu Kyi's imprisonment another 18 months and sentenced the American to 7 years of prison.

The American has now been set free.

Sen. Jim Webb won the release Saturday of an American prisoner convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison for swimming secretly to the residence of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the senator's office said.

John Yettaw, 53, is to be officially deported Sunday, when he will fly with Webb on a military aircraft to Bangkok, according to a statement from Webb's office.

Nice job. Huge score for the good guys, Mr. Yettaw.