Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Concur both.
I’m partial to to using them in one of the cat shot cars, you know, ‘Terrorist Capture and Release’ jpg? Use up some of those Cash For Clunkers that piled up. Strap them in good and auction off the Shooter’s job for each one.
The KSA does one thing right.
As Ron White says, in Texas if you kill someone, we’ll kill you right back, and if three or more people identify you in open court, you get to use the express lane.
One one the many things that I do admire about Texas.
The Italian thing doesn’t shock you when you read that, in Britain, they have put environmental beliefs on the same level as organized religion.
As for the Saud, I think he’s getting off a little too easily given what he did to at least one of his victims. I say castrate him, then leave him in the desert to die. Retrieve his body some time later and put that on display.
Second that motion, Kris.
Sweet Jesus… Hell hath no fury like the fury of a woman mightily pissed-off… or bored…or both…
…a single bullet to the head ( I’d volunteer for that), the hang-mans rope, the big needle…ect…absolutly…but castration…partial decomposition after bleeding out in the desert and subsequent public desplay of the body… are positively midievil in their depravity and truth be told very un-Lex Babe like… que paso? …off your meds?…a slow day in paradise? Please advise. Best ICSFTH
Snake – thank you for your concern…so thoughtful of you.
Why is it un-Lex Babe like? My meds are perfectly regulated these days, it’s hardly paradise where I am and it’s never slow.
I have no use for pedophiles and believe that an eye-for-an-eye sometimes doesn’t go far enough.
Your, um, colorful expansion of my original recommendation has done nothing to sway me, dear sweet man. Hell – the Sauds are already planning to display the carcass after the beheading…
I’m just – embellishing it slightly.
Can we send Polanski to Riyadh?
Wait, wait–I’ve heard all those imams shouting that murder, pedophilia and general depravity are all Western diseases, and that Mohammad will fix everything. So, the convicted was what, a Methodist on vacation in the kingdom?
The Strasbourg court verdict has no power to compel Italy to take down its crucifixes, only to pay 5k Euro to some disgruntled immigrant Finnette. A while ago I was chatting with a student from Florence. Seems a Sudanese alien had grown offended by the shrine to the Holy Mother in a wall near his bus stop, so he mixed up some cement and set to fixing that hole in the wall. Two women grabbed the statue and saved it, and he was eventually arrested. My Florentine friend noted that crap like that only happens in northern Italy (that is, Europe). Down here in Naples, they wouldn’t dare. Too many empty wells and hand grenades.
one sentence in KSA which I agree with. well, actually, it’s a tad lenient since he will likely only suffer momentarily after he is decapitated. He may actually recognize his body before the lights go out. Lenient I tell you after what he put these kids through. But, better than the alternative here where he would enjoy three squares for a significant amount of time while the appeals process is going through. My recommendation is to let the parents have him.
Finally, common ground with the religion of peace. Good for the KSA.
Was it the murder or the pedophilia that merited this sentence?
Neither one seems to be uncommon in that part of the world.
You guys are all aware this is only for show and only occurs to the poor and lower class? Probably a second class citizen migrant worker.
Saudis rape, murder and torture the poor with wild abandon. Same old same old, you guys are too religiously superstitious if you believe in this old testament bullshit.
Snake ~ “un-Lex Babe like”? I think not. Not for this Lex-Babe, at least. Not at all.
HF6, It’s easy to posture as a she-devil incarnate as you sit confortably in front of your computer in La La land…suggest it’s something quite different to actually gin yourself up the perform the deed. Best