This blog is going to be my thoughts on recent events, a change from my recent posting giving advice to other people about their future development or career changes etc.
Indonesian Executions and reactions
Many people have made their opinions felt regarding the executions in Indonesia, but let’s look at this from a different perspective. Suppose the alleged smugglers had been successful and had got their product to its intended destination. This would have created more misery for people already addicted to drugs, first of all they need to raise money to buy the drugs, where does this come from? In most cases usually criminal activity and this usually involves at some point violence and possible deaths. Then there are the addicts themselves, every time they consume the drugs they are literally putting their life at risk from overdose, bad drugs etc.
So what do you do? Allow the drugs into your market? How many people are impacted from the use of drugs both directly and indirectly? Which will increase your crime rate and deaths from drug related activities? And let’s not be blinkered by this, there will be deaths from this and it will impact outside of the so-called drug world.
Each and every drug trafficker is well aware of the consequences involved within their trade, they know only too well the countries that carry the death penalty and which ones will actually carry out the executions see the list below:
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, China, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore. Somalia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Sudan, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam, Yemen Zimbabwe.
Notice from the list one of the biggest complainers about the executions is the USA, whose approach to the death penalty has long been clear.
As for Australia, how they can complain about the executions is a little bit absurd considering it was their own police force that informed the Indonesian government of the actions of the drug traffickers, who knew full well what the consequences would be. So, please if you are going to create an International incident and a Diplomatic row make sure you have all the facts before you say something. And as for the Police Commissioner stating they had nothing to arrest them for, how about conspiracy to commit the alleged offence?
Shooting at Dallas Event
The organisers of this event must be really stupid and did not think this through very well at all, to hold a conference on cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. With recent events in France and Denmark this is tantamount to stupidity of a mind-boggling degree. Yes you have freedom of speech enshrined in your constitution, but for heaven’s sake the writing was on the wall long before the event, therefore you might as well have sent them a personal invitation and as for the venue itself, are you serious, that you would put people’s lives at risk to make a dollar?
- Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are offensive to many Muslims.
- There were widespread protests in 2006 when the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.
- In January this year, 12 people were murdered by two Islamist gunmen at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published similar cartoons.
- And a gathering of free speech activists in the Danish capital Copenhagen was targeted by a gunmanin February, killing a film director.
A little forethought and listening plus being aware of people’s feelings would have avoided this.
French Schoolgirl Skirt Ban
Ok we get that France is an alleged secular culture, were the wearing of religious symbols is not accepted in public, but to get to a stage were the wearing of a long black skirt being deemed as religious in a public school is extreme to say the least.
As far as I can remember no-one has ever been told that a long black skirt is offensive.
I think someone needs to inform the fashion industry that they are perpetuating religious symbols in their latest trends about long skirts
Mayweather vs Pacquaio
Billed as the fight of the century actually turned out to be what most commentators could see a masterclass in defensive tactics, Mayweather threw more punches with greater accuracy than Pacquaio. He had height and reach advantages, so how anyone can say that it was a wrong result needs to look very closely at the statistics involved.
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