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Afghan Student Gets 20 Years For Blasphemy
Invisible Pink Unicorn writes "Despite nationwide public support for his initial death sentence, a three-judge appeals court has reduced the sentence of Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh to 20 years in prison. Kambakhsh was charged with circulating an article on women's rights that he found online. From the article: 'Family members have said Kambakhsh was beaten and threatened with death until he signed a confession and that local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.'"
Agreed. And I used to be in the infantry. If they were accomplishing something worth dying for, I wouldn't have a problem with the sacrifices Canada has made. But when you look at the kind of power structyre that were are being asked to support, it turns my stomach.
I've got a bad attitude and karma to burn. Go ahead. Mod me down.
um you should get your story straight. there are 50 separate governments within the USA, not all of them have death penalties and of those that do, less than half kills more than one person a decade. The only notable exception is the same idiot state that brought us George Bush.
the USA is closer to european union than to one country. A fact that is often forgotten.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAMBLA
I'm not sure why others have been modded down, but that pretty much refutes the argument.
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Sorry I've spent a lot of time looking at this.
A smack addiction, provided the drug is clean and doesn't involve risks associated with crime to get it, won't harm the body. It's not carcinogenic, like anything smoked, it's not bad for the heart, like alcohol, baccy, cocaine and speed, it doesn't lead to psychosis, like weed and speed and cocaine can.
As for dependence, you are of course right; but that's not dangerous in and of itself. As with any opiate, if you get a continuing clean supply you won't have much physical health trouble from the drug itself.
Now it stuffs up your life, since you spend a certain amount of time non-functional, and it cost a bucketload of money, but these are not direct medical/physical harms of the kinds we associate with smoking, drinking or crystal meth (ice).
While there are no deaths directly attributable to marijuana alone, marijuana + alcohol is a noticeably more dangerous combination than just alcohol. As a potent antiemetic, marijuana will prevent you from vomiting up the alcohol still in your stomach unabsorbed when your body otherwise would, making it *far* easier to die from alcohol poisoning. Yes, the alcohol does the actual killing, but the marijuana is far from an innocent bystander.
That said, I fully support legalization of marijuana -- I just think it does people a disservice to claim it's completely safe when there is a common and potentially fatal drug interaction to be aware of.
And for the record, death tolls for the various psychedelics are also quite low. There is significant variation among them, though, with some being quite safe (eg LSD) and others less so (MDMA and other amphetamine / methamphetamine based psychedelics are still potent stimulants, with all their attendant risks).
Actually, under the Taliban, you could get get executed for growing heroin poppies. After the Taliban got run off, heroin production skyrocketed.
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.
---- Robert A. Heinlein
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Don't forget "use" and "possession" crimes. They should be in the top 10.
AC said: "planning crimes *is* a crime"
If that were true, crime dramas would be dead in the water. So would real life law enforcement. And security companies. And pretty much every job that requires someone to predict or understand the behavior of criminals. Even if someone were to intend to commit a crime, they should not be punished unless they actually attempt to carry it out. Everyone should be given a chance, unless you thought Minority Report represented a good idea.
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