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Death Penalty opponents miss one
Topic Started: Apr 15 2010, 04:41 AM (141 Views)
Piano*Dad
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The European Union now regularly criticizes U.S. death penalty practices in diplomatic demarches and sends pointed letters protesting specific executions. In many European capitals, outrage over American capital punishment has triggered street protests and angry public demonstrations. One distinguished former U.S. ambassador, Felix Rohatyn, reported in February 2001 that his consulates in France were frequently besieged by death penalty protesters, and that his embassy had received an anti-death penalty petition signed by 500,000 local citizens. -- protested to bar the possible use of capital punishment against British detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay. For several decades, the European Union countries have refused to extradite criminal defendants to stand trial here -- even suspected terrorists -- without commitments by state prosecutors to forego the death penalty. [Yale Law School article by Koh and Pickering]


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Hamas Executes Two


I'm not arguing the merits of the death penalty. I'm not even suggesting that European protests against US policy are wrong. But I'm always surprised at how easily people compartmentalize their dislike and focus it against selective targets. I guess my 'hypocrisy antennae' are vibrated by the way the European left's anger is often so selectively focussed.

Perhaps my faith in the good heartedness of people will be reenergized when I see 200,000 protestors take to the streets of Paris to demonstrate against the Hamas regime, and against other Arab governments as well, for their callous disregard of European sentiment against executions.
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Red Rice
HOLY CARP!!!
Everyone knows that the US is an evil, imperialistic power bent on world domination, and that Hamas is an association of courageous freedom fighters.

Geez.
Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool.

I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss!

- Cecil Lewis
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JBryan
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Also, everyone knows the potential consequences of protesting the US as opposed to protesting Hamas.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Aqua Letifer
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Red Rice
Apr 15 2010, 06:32 AM
Everyone knows that the US is an evil, impereialistic power bent on world domination, and that Hamas is an association of courageous freedom fighters.

Geez.
Let me know how many guys you hear breathing on the other end of your phone from now on. :biggrin:
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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