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UN Votes Against Death Penalty
Del Rio News-Herald/AP ^
| Dec 18, 2007
| EDITH M. LEDERER
Posted on 12/18/2007 1:34:08 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
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Except for the unborn.
To: SwinneySwitch
So does the New Jersey Legislature and its Gov. But then there is little distinction between NJ and the UN.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:35:21 PM PST
by
street_lawyer
(Conservative Defender of the Faith)
To: SwinneySwitch
Given the amount of people that China executed, which is more I believe than the US has executed since the death penalty was reinstated, why would anyone ever bother to lobby the US to end the death penalty? Seems to me the real progress is to be made in the east. Oh you mean the Chicoms would beat your liberal rear ends and charge them to clean the blood off their batons? Fascinating.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:36:49 PM PST
by
domenad
(In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
To: SwinneySwitch
The “concerned nations” of the U.N. should do the *morally correct* thing and accept extradition of our murderers on death row. We’ll ship them there and they can care for them until death instead. How’s that?
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:37:33 PM PST
by
bolobaby
To: SwinneySwitch
The resolution is not legally binding ...
Except to Justice Kennedy.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:38:26 PM PST
by
depressed in 06
(Bolshecrat, the amoral party of what if and whine.)
To: SwinneySwitch
With what idiots does a UN resolution carry “moral weight”?
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:41:12 PM PST
by
djpg
To: SwinneySwitch
Except for the unborn.beat me to it.
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"a bold step for the international community..."
buzz off, moron.
To: SwinneySwitch
I support the death penalty. Murderers and pedophiles do need to be executed.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:42:59 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: SwinneySwitch
192-member world body If my math is right, that is exactly the same number as tits on two dozen boars.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:46:13 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
To: SwinneySwitch
Given China’s population, and the fact that they oppose this, can they honestly state that this is “The Majority of the world’s opinion”?
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:49:35 PM PST
by
Adams
To: goldstategop
I support the death penalty. Murderers and pedophiles do need to be executed.
And also David Hasselhoff.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:51:03 PM PST
by
Jaysun
(It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
To: domenad
Since China is nominally communist, they can simply claim that they don't have a 'death penalty'. Rather, they have the 'supreme measure of social defense', which is not really a 'punishment' but a 'defense' of their shining socialist paradise against 'imperialist running dogs' and 'capitalist roaders'.
Which is why the UN lobbies the US about it, not China. It's all about the 'dialectic'.
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:51:06 PM PST
by
bassmaner
(Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
To: SwinneySwitch
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posted on
12/18/2007 1:53:34 PM PST
by
Beckwith
(Dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
To: depressed in 06
To: SwinneySwitch
Does that include Saudi Arabia and other fanatical, Islamic countries?
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:00:59 PM PST
by
no dems
(FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
To: SwinneySwitch
I agree! The UN should stopp killing people!
They can start by withdrawing their support of terrorist nations and murderous (either Marxists or Islamic dictatorships) which commit genocide in their own countries.
Sudan, for instance, could be solved if the French and Chinese could not use the UN to block efforts to get other countries troops in there to wipe out the islamo-gangs. The French put these guys in power and the Chinese and protecting them to get the oil exploration deals in Sudan. And the UN is the tool used to keep other countries help from being effective.
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:03:02 PM PST
by
bpjam
(Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
To: SwinneySwitch
The vote in the 192-member world body was 104-54 with 29 abstentions. The resolution is not legally binding but carries moral weight and reflects the majority view of world opinion. Moral weight? It certainly does carry that. Do the exact opposite of what the UN recommends, and you may wear a halo of righteousness.
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:11:58 PM PST
by
chesley
(Where's the omelet? -- Orwell)
To: chesley
"The resolution is not legally binding but carries moral weight and reflects the majority view of world opinion."
This "reporter" doesn't even bother to pretend this is anything but an opinion piece. Even in enlightened Europe there is a large portion of the population that is in favor of the death penalty.
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:18:03 PM PST
by
boop
(Who doesn't love poison pot pies?)
To: SwinneySwitch
reflects the majority view of world opinion. Well, now finally we can take those two sticky controversies, the death penalty and global warming, and put them BOTH to bed, since the majority of us are agreed and there is consensus.
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:35:10 PM PST
by
C210N
To: Adams
You expect honesty from these people?
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posted on
12/18/2007 2:39:08 PM PST
by
Unicorn
(Too many wimps around.)
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