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Saddam executed; Your thoughts?
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: injest on December 30, 2006, 08:45:36 pm ---but the Republicans held the majority...that makes it the right decision!
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That's how our government is run.
--- Quote ---unfortunately, the world has people that feel if something does not affect them directly then it is not a problem...
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Of course. That's how people get through their day. How many people right now, in the US, are thinking about the plight of the Native Americans?
They were lied to, victimized, conquered, the US tried to exterminate some of them, rounded them up, sent them to reservations.
Is ANYone - besides them of course - thinking that in all fairness, to do the right and honorable thing, we should give them the land that we cheated them out of?
Doubtful.
Is anyone tempted to pack up and leave this country so that they can?
Doubtful.
However, there are some tribes right now, in litigation, trying to win back huge tracts of land where the city of Phoenix now stands. If they won, they probably wouldn't evict everyone, though they had the right to.
Some things don't affect others. That's why they don't think about them. Perhaps they should. [shrug]
injest:
the sky is blue
Wayne:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on December 30, 2006, 08:54:36 pm ---That's how our government is run.
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I think there's more to it than that though. We don't just do what the majority say. One of the responsibilities of government is to protect minorities against the majority.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Lynne on December 30, 2006, 08:49:58 pm ---Can you even imagine the emotional cost it must entail for those charged with carrying out the execution, the prison guards, doctor, etc?
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I've read that it's pretty stressful and the prison system has problems finding people who will do it.
[snort] Then you read interviews with the victims families who are present at the execution and invariably one or more will offer to do it themselves.
I read an interview with the actor Scott Glenn once. He finished filming 'Silence of the Lambs' and he was asked how his FBI 'training' had gone, playing as he did, Jodie Foster's character's boss at the FBI.
He said as part of the training, he was allowed to listen to a tape of some guys while they tortured this girl to death.
Scott Glenn has daughters.
His reply was, "I was against the death penalty until I listened to that tape."
Wayne:
--- Quote from: injest on December 30, 2006, 08:58:35 pm ---the sky is blue
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Is not!
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