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11-14-2003, 02:29 PM
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Turkey Abolishes Death Penalty
Council of Europe Expresses Pleasure.
Should improve Turkey's chances of joining the EU.
The US still keeps company with Syria, China, Algeria, Iran, Kazakstan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen... .
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11-14-2003, 02:57 PM
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Good!
You know what they say. They can all be bad but, they can't be all bad.
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11-14-2003, 04:06 PM
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Turkey Abolishes Death Penalty? Just before Thanksgiving?
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11-14-2003, 04:09 PM
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You mean I should have headlined it "Death Penalty Abolished for Turkey". That would have been nicely ambiguous; sorry.  | |
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11-14-2003, 04:10 PM
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11-14-2003, 04:12 PM
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Hey Theophylact,
To punish the female prisoners in Turkey, they are required to "service" any men who wants to spend the $.85 to stay the night. While some think this is barbaric, I think it would help solve 3 or 4 different types of social problems here in the USA if we were to allow it. Just to say it(you knew I was gonna didnt you?) WE AINT NO TURKEY!
I think that this issue would be something more important that saving a murderer from the noose.
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11-14-2003, 04:33 PM
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So life in a Turkish prison is humane?
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11-17-2003, 11:53 PM
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Who cares?
I do not care about the punishment a country determines to be correct for a situation.
It bugs me when they punish people for what I consider to be no reason. Like for saying saddam eats worms or that christianity is better than islam or vice versa.
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11-18-2003, 12:48 AM
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The US still keeps company with Syria, China, Algeria, Iran, Kazakstan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen...
| What kind of obtuse comparison is that? To say we're at the same level as china or iran because we support a just punishment (which although is supported by an imperfect... read human... system), it's just asanine. It's not even close to the truth. Theo, I know you are vehemently opposed to the death penalty, but we share very little in common with the countries you listed, most of which are supporters of terrorism. Just makes me sick.
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11-18-2003, 01:59 AM
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You read it wrong, it says us still has death penalty, along with <countries listed>.
It doesn't say anything about general level of the society.
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