Posted on 08/08/2006 11:52:27 AM PDT by lizol
Sounds like Poland's joining us in the real world. **** AI.
"Backwards"
Things were much better when the KGB et al rounded people up and killed them without trial.
I still await Amnesty International's very public and often repeated denunciation of terrorist bombings, terrorist missile attacks, terrorist beheadings, etc...
Support for the death penalty is just the natural result of violent crime. If you have no violent crime, you won't have much support for the death penalty. Europe is becoming more violent, and will ultimately re-adopt the death penalty.
Poland CAN Not reinstate the death penalty.
They will have a hard time seceding from the EU and they can't be part of the EU and still have the death penalty.
Case closed.
Moreover, as soon as the Pope says something (and he will be against it) the country will be against it.
The kooks in charge are looney. They are twin brothers and they are a problem. It is in no ones interest to encourage them.
Amnesty International ignores the real oppressive despots and goes after civil nation's nit picky offenses. They're about a credible as a Reuter's photographer.
They've got Africa and the Middle East where the killing of innocents abound, but instead they focus on the US and Poland?
The Ukraine did not stand up to the EU about the death penalty because they HOPE to get membership. Thus people who murder old ladies get sent to prison and get free meals for a few years and then are back on the streets.
Amnesty International is barbaric and so are the EU sophistos.
I thought AI was for American Idol and I couldn't figure out why they would be giving Poland what for.
It is my observation that the leaders of Poland do not represent the will of the people. Not sure how that happened, how people were put into office if that is the case, but my guess is that the people of Poland won't stand for this.
The saying when I was a kid, was: Put 18 Polocks in a room and you would have 27 political views and at least 30 political parties, the observation of a friend at a meeting of St Mikes.
I don't know enough Poles to really comment.
rural Poland is so diffent from Urban Poland that it is really like two different eras and continents.
The difference in the US or elsehwere in Europe is insignificant in comparison.
Imagine 18th century American rural meeting 21st century Amerian urban and that is what Poland is like.
Who is in the majority, I have no idea.
However, these guys are bad for the economy and that means at the end of the day, they are bad for everyone.
I read that they are fascist and homophobic. IMHO Poland should be expelled from the EU.
"They've got Africa and the Middle East where the killing of innocents abound, but instead they focus on the US and Poland?"
That's because they're not interested in Justice, only in conforming everyone to their own small political/world-view.
I read that they rigged both parliamentary and presidential elections. In fact the Poles hate them.
Facist is a difficult charge to prove. Homophobic is perhaps true, but hindered by law. Worst case they destroy Poland's (rather small) economy.
Not sure what the legal procedure for getting kicked out of the EU is. It probably is complicated.Naval gazing is still priority 1 for Europe. Maybe if we can ever sort out our unemployment problems we can worry about #2.
Bravo Poland!... see? of those jokes about them being stupid obviously are unfounded. POLAND gets it.
Anyone who has seen killers in this country glorified and elevated to almost a hero-status, I am sure has to wonder what a bunch of imbecils we have become in the U.S.
To see the "Alqaidos" actually including as part of their training, instructions on how to fool the Americans by using our judicial system to their advantage - our famous guarantees - it's enough to make you puke.
No being bounded by religion - I am an "independent" now :) - I can honestly say that there is a PLACE FOR THE DEATH PENALTY in any society. Those who have no remorse or compasion with the lives of others, should not get any considerations either. Now one thing is to be a pack of blood thirty mad dogs like those nuts in the middle east and another one is to let killers get away with taking the life of others... sometimes many, many lives. That is simply stupid?
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