Opposition allied with accused murderer
mtbr @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:38 pm
kenmore kenmore:
fuck I love it .. they cant do anything for a woman in a mexican jail accused of drug possession but they want to jump on to save this guy... fuck hang him high and carve him up... dont agree with this.. and no mtbr I wont vote tory so forget it..

I'm still trying to figure out who the hell you are going to vote for
Im just glad he isnt being tried in canada. Id hate to see him get out on parole in ten years.
Robair @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:53 pm
mtbr mtbr:
Robair Robair:
ryan29 ryan29:
Robair Robair:
Harper and company are the idiots here. So now the government of the day gets to decide who is worth saving?? Canada either opposes the death penalty or it doesn't. You can't have elected officials deciding on a case by case basis. Slippery slope much?
Canada does not support the death penalty. Save some money and put him in jail for life. (That's right, an execution costs more in the US than life in prison)
well do you really think this guy who is accused of killing his own family is worth saving ?
No. Do you understand the word "Precedent"?
How about the term "Slippery slope"?
ryan29 ryan29:
and we must remember his trial is going to drag on for years , plus appeals . even if convicted he will not be facing the death penalty until at least 10 years from now , more than likely . and by then that state might not even be still using it , so his life is not in jeopardy anytime soon .
isn't that good the poor murder will be alive for a while
That gives the Canadian government time to come to it's senses.
How about the term...stupid Liberal idea....what the hell is it with lefties and criminals?
Very familiar with the term "stupid Liberal idea". Long gun registry being my favorite. But what the hell does that have to do with the Conservative government endorsing the killing of Canadian citizens abroad? You want the death penalty in Canada or is it a double standard? Maybe you never leave the country.
And who are you calling lefty? Was that directed at me?
Answered your question, how about addressing some of mine...
fire_i @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:10 pm
Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:
fire_i fire_i:
Few things to note IMHO :
- Canada opposes death penalty regardless of the circumstances (remember official statements denounced Saddam Hussein's execution, even though he was a monster on all the line)
Actually I can't, can you find something to jog my memory on that ? I sure couldn’t.
I checked, and...
Oh shit, I dreamed that apparently. Canada didn't say anything about whether the execution was a good or bad thing, it just expressed concern about Iraq's safety.
My bad!
mtbr @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:01 am
Robair Robair:
mtbr mtbr:
Robair Robair:
ryan29 ryan29:
Robair Robair:
Harper and company are the idiots here. So now the government of the day gets to decide who is worth saving?? Canada either opposes the death penalty or it doesn't. You can't have elected officials deciding on a case by case basis. Slippery slope much?
Canada does not support the death penalty. Save some money and put him in jail for life. (That's right, an execution costs more in the US than life in prison)
well do you really think this guy who is accused of killing his own family is worth saving ?
No. Do you understand the word "Precedent"?
How about the term "Slippery slope"?
ryan29 ryan29:
and we must remember his trial is going to drag on for years , plus appeals . even if convicted he will not be facing the death penalty until at least 10 years from now , more than likely . and by then that state might not even be still using it , so his life is not in jeopardy anytime soon .
isn't that good the poor murder will be alive for a while
That gives the Canadian government time to come to it's senses.
How about the term...stupid Liberal idea....what the hell is it with lefties and criminals?
Very familiar with the term "stupid Liberal idea". Long gun registry being my favorite. But what the hell does that have to do with the Conservative government endorsing the killing of Canadian citizens abroad? You want the death penalty in Canada or is it a double standard? Maybe you never leave the country.
And who are you calling lefty? Was that directed at me?
Answered your question, how about addressing some of mine...
If the shoe fits

...there's your answer. If that was the question?
If you're asking me a question direct it to me.
Robair @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:34 pm
mtbr mtbr:
If the shoe fits

...there's your answer. If that was the question?
If you're asking me a question direct it to me.
Here's two: You ever have your own opinion or is it just whatever the Conservative party tells you it is?
Do you want the death penalty in Canada?
I am pro life and 100% against the death penalty. I am against any further gun controls and all for enforcing the ones we've got. I want some harsher punishment for violent crime, not necissarily longer sentances (that costs money) but maybe shitier conditions in jail (saves money). The only check I've ever recieved from the government is a tax refund and I don't believe in free rides. Public health care is a must and I know that sometimes the public sector can do things cheaper than the private sector. Find a shoe that fits that.
That being said, there is one party currently trying their damndest to put my family out of business, and it isn't the NDP or the Liberals.
mtbr @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:42 pm
Robair Robair:
mtbr mtbr:
If the shoe fits

...there's your answer. If that was the question?
If you're asking me a question direct it to me.
Here's two: You ever have your own opinion or is it just whatever the Conservative party tells you it is?
Do you want the death penalty in Canada?
I am pro life and 100% against the death penalty. I am against any further gun controls and all for enforcing the ones we've got. I want some harsher punishment for violent crime, not necissarily longer sentances (that costs money) but maybe shitier conditions in jail (saves money). The only check I've ever recieved from the government is a tax refund and I don't believe in free rides. Public health care is a must and I know that sometimes the public sector can do things cheaper than the private sector. Find a shoe that fits that.
That being said, there is one party currently trying their damndest to put my family out of business, and it isn't the NDP or the Liberals.
Why is it non Conservatives think conservatives don't have their own opinion? I've lived in Alberta for 37 years why the hell would I vote Liberal?
I think we should have the death penalty.And harsher conditions in prison.
So the Saskatchewan party has a personal vendetta against your family?
Robair Robair:
That being said, there is one party currently trying their damndest to put my family out of business, and it isn't the NDP or the Liberals.

Can you maybe expand on this a bit?
DerbyX @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:35 pm
dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:
Robair Robair:
That being said, there is one party currently trying their damndest to put my family out of business, and it isn't the NDP or the Liberals.

Can you maybe expand on this a bit?
On the off chance you can't wait for an answer its in regards to the CPC position concerning farming and the wheat board.
DerbyX DerbyX:
dino_bobba_renno dino_bobba_renno:
Robair Robair:
That being said, there is one party currently trying their damndest to put my family out of business, and it isn't the NDP or the Liberals.

Can you maybe expand on this a bit?
On the off chance you can't wait for an answer its in regards to the CPC position concerning farming and the wheat board.
Ah, I see.
Robair @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:41 pm
mtbr mtbr:
I think we should have the death penalty.
Ah, there's the root of the problem. Not much point debating the issue of aid for Canucks facing a death sentence abroad if you are of the opinion they should be facing the death sentence at home.
"Capital punishment means never having to say you're sorry."
-Steve Earle
Robair @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:47 pm
mtbr mtbr:
So the Saskatchewan party has a personal vendetta against your family?
I had hopes for them, but it doesn't seem to matter who is voted in, they aren't fixing
Highway 32. Don't think that area of the province has ever voted NDP. I always thought that's why they let the highway go to crap, but the SK Party isn't interested in it either...
The farleftoids, Layton, Dion et al care more about the murderer than the children he murdered it appears to me. They are the type of people who end up having blood on their hands.
$1:
Opponents in capital punishment have blood on their handsBy Dennis Prager
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Those of us who believe in the death penalty for some murders are told by opponents of the death penalty that if the state executes an innocent man, we have blood on our hands.
They are right. I, for one, readily acknowledge that as a proponent of the death penalty, my advocacy could result in the killing of an innocent person.
I have never, however, encountered any opponents of the death penalty who acknowledge that they have the blood of innocent men and women on their hands.
Yet they certainly do. Whereas the shedding of innocent blood that proponents of capital punishment are responsible for is thus far, thankfully, only theoretical, the shedding of innocent blood for which opponents of capital punishment are responsible is not theoretical at all. Thanks to their opposition to the death penalty, innocent men and women have been murdered by killers who would otherwise have been put to death.
Opponents of capital punishment give us names of innocents who would have been killed by the state had their convictions stood and they been actually executed, and a few executed convicts whom they believe might have been innocent. But proponents can name men and women who really were -- not might have been -- murdered by convicted murderers while in prison. The murdered include prison guards, fellow inmates, and innocent men and women outside of prison.
In 1974, Clarence Ray Allen ordered a 17-year-old young woman, Mary Sue Kitts, murdered because she knew of Allen's involvement in a Fresno, Calif., store burglary.
After his 1977 trial and conviction, Allen was sentenced to life without parole.
According to San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra Saunders, "In Folsom State Prison, Allen cooked up a scheme to kill the witnesses who testified against him so that he could appeal his conviction and then be freed because any witnesses were dead -- or scared into silence." As a result, three more innocent people were murdered -- Bryon Schletewitz, 27, Josephine Rocha, 17, and Douglas White, 18.
This time, a jury sentenced Allen to death, the only death sentence ever handed down by a Glenn County (California) jury. That was in 1982.
For 23 years, opponents of the death penalty have played with the legal system -- not to mention played with the lives of the murdered individuals' loved ones -- to keep Allen alive.
Had Clarence Allen been executed for the 1974 murder of Mary Sue Kitts, three innocent people under the age of 30 would not have been killed. But because moral clarity among anti-death penalty activists is as rare as their self-righteousness is ubiquitous, finding an abolitionist who will acknowledge moral responsibility for innocents murdered by convicted murderers is an exercise in futility.
Perhaps the most infamous case of a death penalty opponent directly causing the murder of an innocent is that of novelist Norman Mailer. In 1981, Mailer utilized his influence to obtain parole for a bank robber and murderer named Jack Abbott on the grounds that Abbott was a talented writer. Six weeks after being paroled, Abbott murdered Richard Adan, a 22-year-old newlywed, aspiring actor and playwright who was waiting tables at his father's restaurant.
Mailer's reaction? "Culture is worth a little risk," he told the press. "I'm willing to gamble with a portion of society to save this man's talent."
That in a nutshell is the attitude of the abolitionists. They are "willing to gamble with a portion of society" -- such as the lives of additional innocent victims -- in order to save the life of every murderer.
Abolitionists are certain that they are morally superior to the rest of us. In their view, we who recoil at the thought that every murderer be allowed to keep his life are moral inferiors, barbarians essentially. But just as pacifists' views ensure that far more innocents will be killed, so do abolitionists' views ensure that more innocents will die.
There may be moral reasons to oppose taking the life of any murderer (though I cannot think of one), but saving the lives of innocents cannot be regarded as one of them.
Nevertheless, abolitionists will be happy to learn that Amnesty International has taken up the cause of ensuring that Clarence Ray Allen be spared execution. That is what the international community now regards as fighting for human rights.
Source.
Robair @ Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:14 pm
Joe_Stalin Joe_Stalin:
Whereas the shedding of innocent blood that proponents of capital punishment are responsible for is thus far, thankfully, only theoretical, the shedding of innocent blood for which opponents of capital punishment are responsible is not theoretical at all.
What a load of crap. Theoretical. Once they are dead, the case is never re-opened.
Now look at it this way: If Canada had the death penalty, how many innocent deaths would have been caused by Dr. Charles Smith alone?
David Milgaard would have fried. That's just a small sample here in Canada. Google finds you a lot of cases.
I don't want my Government to have the power to end my life.
David Milgaard would have eventually been in prison for something else. Maybe bragging about murdering someone, when you didn't wasn't a good idea.