On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:18:06 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 16:06:24 +0700, John B.
wrote:

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 18:57:15 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


"John B." wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

"John B." wrote:

There was an A.P. news article in the newspaper yesterday about
someone in Sweden attacking a school with a sword and killing and
wounding some teachers and students.

And, can you imagine? Those nasty Swedish cops shot the poor man!
Inhuman cruelty! Why, if such a thing happened in America the police
would be put on trial for firing their gun inside the city limits, or
some such thing.

They did the right thing, for once.

Yes and the Prime Minister complemented them on it.


Maybe it will start a trend? Kill the criminals, and they will never
commit another crime.

Yes, if nothing else executing criminals thins the ranks somewhat.

Singapore, for example, has a law that for possession of certain
drugs in an amount of more than a very small specific amount the
penalty is hanging. Under Singapore law a condemned person may appeal
to the President of the Republic who may, issue a pardon, require a
re-trial, or simply ignore the request.

For possession of a smaller than the specified amount it is a term in
prison and at last look the prisoners still slept on the floor of
their cell, on a straw mat.

Singapore has relatively little crime. and drug use is rated as one of
the lowest in the world. For both cannibals and opiates the rate is
0.004%. The U.S. rates 13.7 and 0.57% I believe.


Goodness, I'll have to imprison my spell checker :-)
"Cannibals" should have been spelled "cannabis".

I almost fell off my chair over that one. Singapore has a lot of
policies that make our skin crawl, but cannibalism sounds a little
over the top. d8-)

--
Ed Huntress