Posted on 06/17/2008 4:05:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Regarding the mullahs of Iran and their murder of children:It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and
he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
Clinton and Bush are both demonstrations for why there should be no second terms. There should be no prohibition of second terms but sitting presidents should generally NOT be renominated. Reagan is the glaring exception, and perhaps Eisenhower.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a list of 114 child offenders awaiting execution in Iran today, the first time such a list has been made available detailing the practice, which has been banned in all but a handful of countries. The list is the result of comprehensive primary research by prominent Iranian human rights defender Emad Baghi. It forms part of his thus-far unpublished book "Right to Life II," which demonstrates that such executions are not sanctioned by Islamic law as argued by Iranian authorities. The Iranian censors have not permitted the book to be published... The book was distributed in limited numbers to Iranian officials in the Judiciary and the Parliament as well as to human rights defenders and organizations inside Iran... The majority of child offenders on the list are accused of murder. However... many sentences are based on confessions obtained from child defendants following torture and after interrogations in which they have had no access to a lawyer. Courts routinely ignore evidence presented by defendants demonstrating that they acted in self-defense. According to Iran's criminal code, boys may be subjected to penalties including execution at the age of 15 and girls at age of 9.Nice that he does this, and I'm sure that to have any chance of being taken seriously, he would have to put his arguments in an Islamic context, even were he not so inclined. But the fact is, this *is* normal Islamic practice. By way of analogy, I'm sure we all remember the dissembling and rationalization by commies that the USSR wasn't truly socialist or wasn't truly communist or wasn't truly Marxist...
15 to 17 year old violent criminals aren’t children. If Iran holds them accountable for their actions, that’s a damn sight more civilized than our practice of keeping them until they turn 21 and then sending them out to kill again.
A prohibition on second terms would make first terms into “second terms,” I think, and a Bush 1st would look like Bush 2nd now looks like.
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