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The nation that hangs together hangs together

By Roger Migently - posted Wednesday, 16 January 2008


And the United States.

And they are a proud member of the enlightened club of nations (mostly Islamic) which approve the execution of juveniles:

Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, China, and the “Democratic” Republic of the Congo.

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And the United States.

The US has staunchly refused to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids capital punishment for juveniles. In this it stands with Somalia as the last two nations of true principle.

The US is merciful, however, and will not execute the insane. Instead they administer anti-psychotic drugs to ensure that the person is sane before administering additional, lethal drugs, which kill them.

While the United States has a proud record, executing 60 people in 2005, of which 19 were killed in Texas, and 53 people in 2006, of which 24 were killed in Texas, they have a long way to go to catch up to World Execution League Champions, China, in the number of annual executions. In China execution is a huge and lucrative industry, providing fresh organs to western transplant patients at a bargain price. Western human rights monitors believe the Chinese kill about 15,000 a year, more than the rest of the world’s government-sponsored murders combined.

China is leading the way in efficiency, also, by equipping its courts with mobile execution vans as it shifts away from the communist system’s traditional bullet in the back of the head, towards the more “civilised” lethal injection. China expects that this will improve its international image and show it as a more modern and civilised society.

The United States could also learn a lot about commerce and cost recovery from China where families who want to reclaim the body of their dead relatives killed by a bullet to the head are charged for the bullet. It makes sense, doesn’t it? A triumph of “user pays”!

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But let it not be said that there is no debate in the USA about the death penalty.

For example, in the measured, carefully considered words of one American citizen, chiding another who is opposed to the death penalty:

Listen sperm breath: take your withered prick, renew your Viagra prescription and go f**k that six-year-old boy you’ve had the glow for. You get your facts the same place you get your man-love: from your wart-ridden syphilitic bung hole.

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First published at Values Australia on January 4, 2007.



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About the Author

Roger Migently (Sir) was born - miraculously fully-grown - in September 2006 into a world in a frenzy of shameless political hijacking of "Australian values" by politicians who, at the same time, were trashing the real values like decency, generosity and compassion. Knowing he must stand up and do something Sir Roger sat down, created Values Australia - the website of the Department of Mateship and Fair Dinkum Australian Values - and blogged, sometimes with ridicule, sometimes seriously, but always truthfully (as he saw it). He has survived government legal threats and enjoyed the encouragement of many people he respects and admires. He frequently claims full credit for the defeat of the Howard government.

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