To the surprise of no one, the world's most famous Myanmarrian, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, was sentenced today to 18 additional months of house arrest, on top of the, oh, two decades or so she's already served for, basically, being someone the formerly-Burmese people admire and respect, as opposed to the military junta now running the country, which serves proudly alongside Kim Jong Il as co-leaders of the Crazy Dictator Club.

It could have been worse. Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence was initially three years of hard labor, but that was quickly commuted to the year and a half of house arrest—timing that will mean she's still under wraps during Myanmar's planned elections next year. Not that she could have run anyway. Myanmar's clever government has come up with a new law that just happens to disqualify Aung San Suu Kyi from running—you can't stand for election if you've had children with a foreigner. Oops.

But, international condemnation aside, you can't blame this whole thing on the junta. There's another crazy person responsible for Aung San Suu Kyi's latest troubles. It's really all the fault of American John Yettaw, the 53-year-old bus driver from Missouri who in May swam across a 1.25-mile lake to break into the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate's house because a holy vision told him he had to protect her. That God sure does have some wacky ideas.

Incredibly this was Yettaw's second contact with Aung San Suu Kyi. He managed to invade her protected space a year ago and left her a copy of The Book of Mormon (the father of seven converted to Mormonism after he divorced his second wife; he's now on number four).

The details of Yettaw's life sound like they come from "Dark Shadows"—three older siblings died (two while institutionalized, one by suicide), he was molested by a volunteer Big Brother, Dad disappeared, Mom lost custody of him because of her alcoholism AND schizophrenia, his house burnt down, he had a vision of his son's death, and soon after, that son crashed his motorcycle into a deer. His third wife thinks he might be bi-polar.

His vision of saving Aung San Suu Kyi hasn't worked out too well. Yettaw, whose hunger strike has been obstructed by force-feeding while in custody, was sentenced to seven years, including four of hard labor. While Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for his release, no one really expects Bill to show up and save the day. And you've got to think that some part of Aung San Suu Kyi feels a bit of satisfaction at his sentence. She's got enough problems without an American lunatic showing up on her doorstep, soaking wet, claiming he's there to help.