tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post8055985446821075682..comments2023-10-30T00:44:05.942-07:00Comments on Governing through Crime: When Criminals Set the AgendaJonathan Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-19318897847380125022007-08-20T22:57:00.000-07:002007-08-20T22:57:00.000-07:00Let's look to the link between the cold blooded ki...Let's look to the link between the cold blooded killing by these two and the society in which they live. We can hate them and vilify them all we want, but it will not do any more good than killing them with the death penalty. Vindictiveness is a distraction. I'm tired of it and I'm tired of the shallow diatribes of O'Reilly and others who use the by-product of a failed system as poster boys to perpetuate it. <BR/><BR/>The beauty of the reference to European human rights standards that abolish the death penalty and address a social order with a modicum of well being is that they actually lessen the liklihood of such horrors by reducing the creation of sociopaths to begin with. More sociopaths are made than born.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-87005453211108752052007-08-07T05:38:00.000-07:002007-08-07T05:38:00.000-07:00I guess I don't view "scoundrel" as praise exactly...I guess I don't view "scoundrel" as praise exactly, what word would you prefer? I think my sense of anger and outrage at these two suspects is evident from the post. <BR/><BR/>Bush's human rights problems do not arise from "locking up terrorists" but from authorizing the use of physical pain to interrogate suspects of terrorism. Yes, in the view of international human rights courts such physical pressure techniques do constitute torture.Jonathan Simonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15217567476776700363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-819711698688655785.post-28513355564539265582007-08-07T04:26:00.000-07:002007-08-07T04:26:00.000-07:00Interesting word choices. A man rapes an eleven ye...Interesting word choices. A man rapes an eleven year old girl and then burns her alive. He is a 'scoundrel.'<BR/><BR/>Bush locks up terrorists; he is a 'torturer.'K Titohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16009647974316767478noreply@blogger.com