Maharlika wrote:Easy now, galraen. Minerva was merely asking for a clarification.
As for capital punishment for manufacturing prohibited drugs, I'm not surprised that such law was put into place.
Well it didn't seem like that to me, hopefully your'e right, but the implication was that I was only bringing it up because the idiot was white.
Maybe I should clarify something, I've never meant to imply that what the guy did was acceptable, or that he shouldn't be punished, IMHO he should have been fined, made to do a long stint of community service then deported. I fully agree that if an immigrant can't abide by the demands of the host culture, they shouldn't stay there.
I feel that imprisonment in that instant was using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, and certainly he is a nut:laugh:.
I have attacked the UK's record of using imprisonment far too much elsewhere on this forum, we have a poor record when it comes to incarcerating people inappropriately, and it's no coincidence that the majority of those are black. Racism is unfortunately endemic in this country, something I've opposed all my life, which is why Minerva's post strucka raw nerve perhaps.
In passing, it must seem strange to many people in the world that the worst sinners in the world are now trying to act 'holier than thou'. It can be difficult for us Brits to come to terms with the fact that our ancestors were the scum of the earth for so long. Britains history is nothing to be proud of, we, and other Europeans,including the Dutch, Belgian, French and of course the Spanish and Portugese who started the transatlantic slave trade, behaved abominably. However I am not my ancestor, and I hate injustice and exploitation, and I will oppose them whenever I perceive it. Britain still has people who behave badly, both internally and internationally, I have and will continue to oppose them, I will also speak out when I see others doing what I conceive to be wrong. One 'wrong' that I oppose is capital punishment, not because I have an idealogical problem with executing murderers, but because no country in the world has a perfect judicial system, and one person convicted wrongly and executed is one too many. However, life imprisonment should mean what it says. End of pontification.
[QUOTE=Darth Gavinius;1096098]Distrbution of games, is becoming a little like Democracy (all about money and control) - in the end choice is an illusion and you have to choose your lesser evil.
And everything is hidden in the fine print.[/QUOTE]