A world gone mad
A world gone mad
Chapter 1
Reuters reports:
Opponents of the death penalty around the world criticized the United States on Friday after double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed there since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
The European Union condemned the execution...
In Singapore... a 25-year-old Australian drug courier was hanged just hours before Boyd's execution...
China, Iran and Vietnam had more executions in 2004 than the United States, according to rights group Amnesty International.
And yet, the only country to be criticized is the United States! Is this a sane world?
Chapter 2
Reuters reports:
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met Mahmoud Abbas on Friday and said the Palestinian leader was the right man to seal a definitive peace agreement with Israel.
Also today, AP reports as follows:
Up to 15 Palestinian militants wanted by Israel have returned to the Gaza Strip, Israeli officials said Friday, complaining that the Palestinian Authority had not fulfilled its obligation since taking control of the border with Egypt last week.
In a sane world, Berlusconi would have held off making his absurd statement for at least a week after the news about the terrorists was released.
Note: Italy was party to the Munich agreement, 30 September, 1938, together with Germany, Britain and France. Italy also acted as Hitler's ally during WW II.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at December 2, 2005 06:30 PM
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Bill Levinson
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"In Singapore... a 25-year-old Australian drug courier was hanged just hours before Boyd's execution..." But I would add that the U.S. has yet to execute ONE ISLAMOFASCIST TERRORIST since 9/11 (and in fact for decades, although non-Islamofascist Timothy McVeigh got the needle for Oklahoma City), and Israel has NEVER put an Islamofascist to death for murdering innocent men, women, and children.
The death penalty opponents are lucky that I am not in charge of Israel, because any Palestinian that was captured after infiltrating Israel with weapons or explosives, and any "internationals" (e.g. Susan Barclay of the ISM) would be tried as a spy and then given short shrift. ("Short shrift" was once described as putting someone up between a wall and a firing squad and giving the order to shoot.) Alternatively, the IDF would simply not bother to capture any of them alive to begin with.
If I was in George Bush's position, I would give the order that any insurgent captured in civilian clothing (i.e. 90 percent of them) be treated similarly.
Posted by: Bill Levinson on December 2, 2005 07:25 PM
A world gone mad
Chapter 1
Reuters reports:
And yet, the only country to be criticized is the United States! Is this a sane world?
Chapter 2
Reuters reports:
Also today, AP reports as follows:
In a sane world, Berlusconi would have held off making his absurd statement for at least a week after the news about the terrorists was released.
Note: Italy was party to the Munich agreement, 30 September, 1938, together with Germany, Britain and France. Italy also acted as Hitler's ally during WW II.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at December 2, 2005 06:30 PM