| Dec. 28th, 2009 @ 03:52 pm Barbarian Nonsense |
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Did I ever mention how much I hate China?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091228/ap_on_re_as/as_china_britain_death_sentence
Actually, China's not alone in this barbarity. Many Asian nations execute people over things that would get them a few years in prison in the US, at most. I'm talking drug trafficking, of course; I'm sorry, but I consider how we treat the helpless- and that includes prisoners who are incapacitated totally- as the supreme sign of what level of civilization we have achieved.
Fuck China. They've gone from being one of the world's oldest and most brilliant civilizations to being an officially atheist toilet bowl with billions of people and corruption beyond measure in charge of their sorry excuse for a government. Their corruption makes USA corruption look like an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
But truly, is Texas any better? They just executed a man whose IQ tested in the range of mentally handicapped. Fuck Texas! I wish they would succeed from the "union", such that it is. I think of them as an embarrassment that produced the Bush family.
Good thing I'm not the British Government, because I'd take better care of my citizens. I'd issue a travel advisory for all Brits telling them the truth: If you travel in these barbaric, backwards-assed Asian nations, you may be murdered by the governments there if you do something you wouldn't be murdered for here. (Some of the fools here who may want to argue with me about this execution being a "murder" can be silenced now- morally unjustifiable killing is always murder, even if a barbaric law-code says that it's an acceptable legal penalty.) And if I were the King of England, or the PM, or some important Brit with a Brit accent, I'd send the Special Air Services to the ass-smelling shantytown that this man is being held in, and have them extract him by force (there's almost no chance of them failing).
And I'd tell China that I did it, after the fact, and expel their "diplomats" and cut off all relations with them over this. Yes, over one citizen of my country would I say "fuck you". That's just the resentful sort of bastard I am. I would never allow my citizens to be subjected to kangaroo courts and murder at the hands of thugs and barbarians. I'd be happy to have him sent back to England to face charges of drug trafficking in his home country, however. If the Chinese justice system was worth anything, and not a joke on the world Human Rights stage, I might be inclined to allow my citizens to be subjected to it. But what's happening here is a bigger crime, a far bigger crime than what China claims this man did.
This all comes down to the foolish, backwards, vicious, and useless penalty of death, of capital punishment in general. There's no use for it anymore. It's bullying, it's vengeance, it's useless. It doesn't deter crime, as studies have revealed. I only consider it to be worthwhile in one instance, the instance of the murder of children- but some here (mostly non-parents) would disagree with me on this one. That's fine. These situations are complicated, but in the end, capital punishment as a whole reeks.
China is an embarrassment to humanity, sorta like Texas, except WAY bigger, WAY more people, and WAY more executions. Bullying and barbarity and corruption and violence-for-pleasure seeking power-drunk GOONS everywhere... funny thing, this: do any of you remember when you became an adult?
What marked your real mental transition from a child's worldview to an "adult" worldview? I know when mine was. I remember it. I realized one day, while watching some horrible shit on the news, that adults weren't in charge of the world. My mother couldn't explain to me why someone wouldn't come and stop the terrible things I was seeing, the crying, scared people huddling for shelter from whatever thug or tyrant was murdering them in some country a world away.
When you're growing up, most people rely on the "adults", you think they have it under control, that they keep shit straight, and don't let things happen in terrible, unfair, unjust ways. They punish you for being unfair and a bully; you have to assume that no one does this stuff in the adult world.
One day, I realized that even adults didn't have this world under control. They were as helpless as me, a child, to stop terrible things, unfair things, unjust things, and that adults everywhere who were in control of cities, countries, and armies were not fair people or good people. They could be worse than any bully kid, more immature and stupid than the worst kid. When I realized that this world wasn't in the hands of benevolent, calm, fair adults, I think I stopped being a "kid". Adults played their hand well- they made me think that cops and lawyers and politicians sorta had things handled, but they don't. They never did. And other nations? Asspounding barbarians and power-hungry petty tyrants who kill or send to death and laugh about it.
There's no dignity out there, waiting for kids who are growing up, just teeth and talons and a struggle for safety and justice which is akin to reaching a mirage in a burning desert. |
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