Re: Bush surrenders the election to Kerry

From: Rich Grise (richardgrise_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: 30 Aug 2004 18:59:21 -0700

bill.sloman@ieee.org (Bill Sloman) wrote in message >
"Roger Gt" <not@here.net> wrote in message
> > Okay, I looked up "Amnesty International". They are
> > Anti-American, anti_Constitution, and the only complaint is the
> > Death Penalty, apparently they LIKE Murders!

> They are perfectly entitled to question the U.S. bill of rights, which
> doesn't seem to provide much protection for the objects of Dubbya's
> ill-informed suspicions.

I don't konw if "questioning the US Bill of Rights" is what they're
complaining about - I'd like to see someone question the current
administrations abuses of the Bill of Rights.

> They are also perfectly entitled to object to the death penalty - no
> system of justice is perfect, and the death penalty has a way of
> making judicial errors irretrievable. Despite the claims of the
> "pro-life" crowd, the death penalty is not a effective deterrent - the
> sorts of impulsive nit-wits who commit murders don't look far enough
> ahead for potential punihment to have any effect on their actions, and
> this is pretty obvious from the statistics.

I'm against the death penalty for a very simple reason. If something is
a crime, then it's a crime no matter who commits it, whether it's by
an individual or by a lynch mob. And even if you have a huge lynch mob
with a constitution and presidents and governors and senators and
legislators and all that crap, murder is still murder.

Make up your mind. Anything that it's not OK for a citizen to do, the
government shouldn't be allowed to do. QED.

If you believe otherwise, you're a statist, and I don't want you controlling
my country.

Cheers!
Rich

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