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RANT! Iranian justice is disgusting (still)

RANT! Iranian justice is disgusting (still)

I wrote about Iranian flogging almost a year ago.  It still is disgusting although I guess it is getting slightly better.  At least now they are “reviewing” the sentences of “death by stoning” and commuted some of the sentences.

According to the BBC, it is rare for someone to be stoned to death – they haven’t done it in a year.  A YEAR?!?!?  For a country the size of California, that seems like fairly recent behavior.

How do you stone someone “Iranian style”?  Here is what the BBC reported:

The country’s penal code stipulates that before carrying out the punishment, men should be buried up to their waists and women up to their chests. The stones used must be large enough to cause the condemned pain, but not sufficient to kill immediately.

So if the stones don’t kill immediately that means it takes several strikes to do the deed.

I suppose that Iran is never going to perfect the atomic bomb. It seems too merciful for their enemies.  I would think that they would instead just create big dirty bombs so that the enemies suffer over a long time from radiation poisoning and die slow miserable deaths.

I repeat my RANT from my original post on this subject:

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD – WE NEED TO CONDEMN IRAN FOR THIS TERRIBLE EXERCISE!

I am done with this topic for now but I reserve the right to rant more on it someday.  I just hope the judicial system in Iran doesn’t give me reason to ever think about this.

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RANT! Iranian justice is disgusting

RANT! Iranian justice is disgusting

I cannot believe the story I just read on the Daily Mall that has a man being publicly flogged 80 times for supposedly having extramarital sex and drinking. This man will physically scarred for life! This is the same country that is developing nuclear capability!

There should be a general uproar and outcry about this terrible treatment. Rock stars should do concerts about the amazing abuse of civil rights (instead of doing Live Aid). I read about the story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=477088&in_page_id=1770

PEOPLE OF THE WORLD – WE NEED TO CONDEMN IRAN FOR THIS TERRIBLE EXERCISE!

I am done with this topic for now but I reserve the right to rant more on it someday.

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RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 4 of 4

RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 4 of 4

It hasn’t gotten any better since the vicious greed and land grabbing of the mid 20th century. People are fighting and dying over power and greed. This isn’t about ethnic homelands as neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis have had a continuous control over these lands for centuries.

People in this region need to work together and understand that everyone needs a place to live and raise their families. They want to be close to their cousins to celebrate important dates. Laws need to be fair that no one is persecuted because of what they worship. Their should be no need to kick someone out of their family farm just because they are on the wrong side of some line drawn by some politician. Who cares!

The real root of this problem is that Jews felt that they could no longer afford to live in Europe. Once again, this is an unfortunate act of hatred of someone that is different than you. I suggest that Jews do not repeat that hatred to others.

HEY MIDEAST (INCLUDING ISRAEL) – LIVE AND LET LIVE!!

I am done with this topic for now but I reserve the right to rant more on it someday.

More reading on this subject:
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 1 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 2 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 3 of 4

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RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 3 of 4

RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 3 of 4

After the UN partitioned a homeland for the Palestinians and Israel (a plan that the majority of Jews agreed to but some warned that they would be attacked), their neighbors went on a land grab. Almost immediately on the creation of the state of Israel, approximately 21,000 soldiers from 4 different countries invaded Israel with their stated goal of eliminating the new country that was officially only days old. Before long they had about 3 times that many troops.

In the process of attacking, these invading countries essentially occupied all of the new Palestinian state and used that advantage to attack Israel. They essentially destroyed Palestine and controlled the land from their respective countries.

Israel, as a new sovereign nation, had a right to protect itself. It successfully defended itself and in the process repelled its attackers from adjoining land, which essentially meant repelling the the invading army from Palestine.

In reality, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt wiped out Palestine in their efforts to wipe out Israel. Israel did not destroy Palestine (although it didn’t put the lines back where they used to be).

HEY LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAQ, AND EGYPT – THIS IS YOUR FAULT!

More on this topic later!

Here is some related reading for you to enjoy:
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 1 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 2 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 4 of 4

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RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 2 of 4

RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 2 of 4

The United Kingdom and the US (to a much lesser degree) are actually the good guys in the entire Palestinian homeland issue, so the world should give them a collective break.

If you look at history, UK (and a few friends) beat the snot out of the Ottoman’s in WW1. They then broke up this massive land that was under Ottoman rule into states (basically the ones that exist today). Palestine was one of those states, as was Israel. Hurray for UK! Don’t believe me – see the map.

Unfortunately, Nazi Germany was not being nice to their Jewish citizens at that time (as were other nations in Europe). This was driving these relatively affluent and well educated Jews to the land that their forefathers occupied centuries ago – the land between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean Sea – what is now Israel. The inhabitants there (Palestinians) didn’t like the Jews either since they were rich, well educated, and were quickly taking over by buying everything. So they started fighting with the new immigrants (wow – this is a recurring theme – natives fighting with immigrants). Understand that at this time, Jews weren’t “taking” anything from the Palestinians – they were buying or building their homes and businesses.

So the real problem in Palestine is the lack of allowing immigrants from other religions and ethnic backgrounds to prosper and live in peace.

WHY CAN’T EVERYONE JUST LIVE AND LET LIVE?

More on this topic later!

Here is some related reading for you to enjoy:
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 1 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 3 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 4 of 4
Truth About Israel
History of the Arab-Israeli conflict
The war against Israel

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RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 1 of 4

RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 1 of 4

It is interesting that the Israeli – Palestinian problem has achieved such notoriety and in particular that the Israeli state, the United States, and UK have taken such enormous blame over the entire issue. The proposed Palestinian state has as much right to exist as the state of Israel but it is not Israel’s fault that the Palestinian’s have no homeland …

IT IS THE UNITED KINGDOM’S FAULT!
(with a helping from Nazi Germany and others as we will see as I post more on this subject)

Actually the fault truly lies with the Ottoman empire as they were the most recent to occupy the territory (I won’t blame the Greeks and the Romans). The supposed homeland to Palestinians and Jews wasn’t their homeland for hundreds of years – it was under Ottoman rule. So all of the complaining about a homeland is really a little immature – they were both out of power for a massive amount of time (in fact, the Israel nation was gone many centuries ago).

More on this topic later…

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Here is some related reading for you to enjoy:
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 2 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 3 of 4
RANT! – The Israeli / Palestinian problem – 4 of 4
The Palestinians are victims of Israel? You decide. Andrew White
Solving the Israel-Palestine Problem
70% of Gazans Wish Israel would Re-Occupy : The Karma of Hatred Comes Home to Roost

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