Mass murderers are crying hoarse to abolish capital punishment. Not really because they are against executions as such, but because hypocritical delicacy demands that such executions are not made public. When the Afghan government wants to bring in law and order by public executions, the Western world bursts in indignation. And when the US kills, maims and tortures prisoners in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, then everything is just fine and serves the cause against the war against terror.
The Afghan president Hamid Karzai wants to enforce executions as a government policy and that is not prohibited by Afghan law. The NATO countries are decrying this as inhuman and beneath the ethics of civilized society. This logic does not hold. By their own admission, Afghanistan is in the hands of barbarian terrorists and due to the US war, in absolute ruins. In other words, Afghanistan is in a condition akin to frontier America centuries ago. There is no law and order; there is a constant threat from bounty hunters and tribal warlords. Did not the US accept as necessary, public executions in Frontier times? And even now some US Senators want to enact laws to make capital punishments the norm throughout the US. Unless there are strong checks and rapid, aggressive punitive actions against some conscienceless, merciless and violent men, others of that type cannot be deterred.
L.A. Times reports the botched execution of a group of criminals. The paper elegantly paints the sad picture of protocol not being followed and how one should be shooting each man one at a time. Alas! How the cruel military started firing on the hapless prisoners. But what about the sorrow those violent men had brought on thousands of unarmed civilians? Those who live by the gun will die by the gun. It is fateful and right that those degraded men die like cattle. The prisoners at Pul-i-Chakri prisoner protested this incident by boycotting food. One only wishes that they give up food altogether and let some innocent and impoverished Afghan live. They are just getting undeserved free lunches in jails.
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Via: LA Times
