Careful pointing fingers here. Didn't we recently find out that someone who died on death row was innocent after the real killer confessed? And do I need to mention how Georgia imprisoned Genarlow Wilson for 2 years unlawfully for an archaic law? Wilson v. State was a Georgia court case brought about to appeal the aggravated child molestation conviction of Genarlow Wilson (born April 8, 1986). Wilson had been convicted of aggravated child molestation because, at the age of seventeen, he had engaged in oral sex with a consenting fifteen-year-old at a New Year's Eve party.[1][2][3][4] At the time of his conviction, provisions for similarity in age that allowed underage consent to be taken into account were only applicable to vaginal sex. Because the case involved oral sex the consent of the girl was not at that time legally relevant.[5][6] On October 26, 2007, the Georgia State Supreme Court, while not overturning the conviction itself, ruled that Wilson's sentence was cruel and unusual ("grossly disproportionate"). He was released later that day, after serving over 2 years of his 10 year prison sentence in the Al Burruss Correctional Training Center in Forsyth, Georgia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_v._State_of_Georgia
Oh yeah, I forgot that the United States is not perfect, so we shouldn't complain that a 75 year old woman is about to get whipped to death for asking her nephew to bring her a loaf of bread. Thanks for straightening me out.
Nah, just tired of piss ant little countries screwing over their own people to line their own pockets, and screw over the rest of the world....all because they happen to be in a land where dinosaurs did enmasse.... DD
I don't know if this is tongue in cheek or not, but Saudi Arabia is any thing but a "piss ant little country". Saudi has one of the largest physical territories in the world, by far the most natural resources, and a defense budget that rivals that of many industrial countries around the world. A "piss ant little country" might be a Bahrain or a Georgia, just not Saudi. But I do admire your imperialist tendencies
No kidding. This and Baqui99's painfully silly "analogy" are ridiculous. Call it what it is: barbarism.
Saudi Aramco rocks, and I loved living in Saudi. But it's the matowas (sp) that are so backwards. The religious police etc. When I was 16, I was taken into their security room in a Mall in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and held there for like an hour because I was with 2 girls (friends) shopping (hanging out) that weren't family.
I'm going to withold judgment until they actually whip the lady. She has a lawyer who says he'll appeal the verdict. When their court cycle is over, there might be a different verdict.
Why do you think that Gitmo is getting shut down? How many people have b****ed and moaned about torture tactics just like this? I've never understood the "two wrongs make a right" theory.
I don't agree with waterboarding, or what might potentially happen to the 75-year old woman in Saudi. I was just wondering, out of curiosity, how often such practices occur in present-day Saudi. I'll ask again, what are your thoughts on waterboarding? (not trying to derail the thread, I'm just curious).
It's illegal. Those responsible for it's use should be punished. What is being done here is 1) not illegal. 2) not subject to the aforementioned calls for punishment. Conclusion: I don't think this analogy is appropriate either.
But aren't they following Muslim law by doing this? Maybe this isn't a problem with their system, but a problem with the principles that guide their system.
