Philippines: China executes 3 Filipino drug mules

[rlogan 2,036]

Dead drug smugglers never smuggle drugs again. Good policy!

Everyone has a sadistic streak in them, some of course way more than others, but the easiest way to get that sadistic streak out is to have government sanction or tolerate brutality.

Lots of people felt exactly as you do for the tens of thousands of blacks lynched to death by burning, hanging, and beating in full view of law enforcement and the newspaper writers in the USA. The blacks, the indians, the witches, the jews, the homosexuals, the gypsies, the Arabs - there's no end to the list of people we can dehumanize.

One drug, alcohol, kills far more than heroin does - order of magnitude more - plus there's tobacco killing more as well. All you have to do is make alcohol and tobacco death-penalty crimes and just like you people will be found applauding it, relishing the execution of another human being. Pass the beer and nuts, please. What fun!

So too it is for sodomy or insulting the king or whatever. Other people will come out cheering death penalty for that. They filled the Roman Ampitheater with tens of thousands cheering on in wild ecstasy as animals tore other humans apart. It was a carnival sport because the government said it was OK. All over the world at this moment people are being butchered, and the reasoning is always so casual.

I was a death penalty advocate when younger, but the Innocence Project that used DNA to prove shocking numbers of death-penalty convicts were completely innocent that turned the tide for me. I have watched all of these ludicrous FBI cases in the press where they used agents provocateur to both pay and incite these poor dolts into some fantasy "terrorist" plot. People of lower IQ or emotionally unstable nature manipulated into signing false confessions. Witnesses dead-sure of identification that were proven wrong.

When it is a communist system with very little protection of rights, the potential for wrongful prosecution is just too high to cheer on the death penalty, especially when the communist government is making good money selling body parts.

I notice that in a lot of these wrongful prosecution cases the cops play the odds. In most murders for example the perpetrator is known to the victim so that's the first people the cops focus on: family and associates. So we can only hope your cheering on of the death penalty is attended by a loved one of yours being sexually assaulted and murdered, and you are charged with the crime. You'll be innocent, but it will be like others you can watch documentaries on that were wrongfully prosecuted.

I can't pretend to be holier than thou. But anyone applauding execution I urge to think more carefully about it. Ask yourself if you can do the execution personally. Are you really that committed. If we put these particular defendants, the accused drug mules, before you are you saying you'd be happy to kill them yourself? Because to me, that's what you are saying. Now you actually do have to think about consequences. Living with that in your conscience.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

The Philippines only eliminated the death penalty in 2006. On the immigration forms you filled out on the airplane when I first traveled in 2005 "Death to Drug Smugglers" was on the bottom.

Exactly.

[Juan Luna 6]

If these nincompoops lived in Davao, they could have long died of lead poisoning.

You mean lead spewing from the barrel of an Armalite AR-10, don't you?