What do Bush and Hu Share in Common?
Each is or was the leader of a state that led the world/U.S. record for executions.
Yes, the U.S. is only running fourth behind China in the numbers of executions that it carries out each year -- Iran and Saudi Arabia are still ahead of us.
But at least Bush can boast that as Governor of Texas, he routinely executed more women, juveniles, minorities and the total than any other state in the Union. Remember Karla Faye Tucker? She was the one Bush smirked about executing Karla Faye had had a miserable childhood ridden by a drug addicted mother who introduced her to same. She and a companion while doped up had carried out a brutal murder. But she had been born again in prison -- her first drug free experience -- and was highly regarded there by her fellow inmates on death row before her execution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker
Bush also got to execute one of the last of the juveniles which we were still executing then -- happily the Supreme Court outlawed that practice of which we were one of a handful of nations last spring. That kid had been identified by one WHITE lady as the parking lot killer -- across a darkened parking lot. The African American witnesses there who claimed he was not the one were not taken seriously by the jury.
And so it goes. Bush can't win them all. But he can put in jail the lady who protested Hu's China's human rights record of executions -- nearly 2,000 a year for this and that offense to the state. Heard he was really pissed off by her interrupting his party with Hu.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Yes, the U.S. is only running fourth behind China in the numbers of executions that it carries out each year -- Iran and Saudi Arabia are still ahead of us.
But at least Bush can boast that as Governor of Texas, he routinely executed more women, juveniles, minorities and the total than any other state in the Union. Remember Karla Faye Tucker? She was the one Bush smirked about executing Karla Faye had had a miserable childhood ridden by a drug addicted mother who introduced her to same. She and a companion while doped up had carried out a brutal murder. But she had been born again in prison -- her first drug free experience -- and was highly regarded there by her fellow inmates on death row before her execution:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker
Bush also got to execute one of the last of the juveniles which we were still executing then -- happily the Supreme Court outlawed that practice of which we were one of a handful of nations last spring. That kid had been identified by one WHITE lady as the parking lot killer -- across a darkened parking lot. The African American witnesses there who claimed he was not the one were not taken seriously by the jury.
And so it goes. Bush can't win them all. But he can put in jail the lady who protested Hu's China's human rights record of executions -- nearly 2,000 a year for this and that offense to the state. Heard he was really pissed off by her interrupting his party with Hu.
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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