John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS
“China sentences Canadian to death for drug operation
“Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland condemned the penalty”
I do not support the death penalty ever, but far more than half the globe does. If you travel to those countries and break their harshest laws, what can you expect?
I really don't care what Chrystia Freeland says, and I'm quite sure China doesn't either. Her voice, in my view, has little sense of moral authority, and I can cite many reasons for saying that.
Saudi Arabia, for example, is having a record year so far for beheadings by a swordsman, their method of execution when it isn't crucifixion. The Saudis now are actually looking to hire more swordsmen.
Just the other day, a fifteen-year old boy was beheaded. His crime? Not part of a filthy meth ring, a drug by the way that causes thousands of deaths, his crime was posting critical things about the government on the Internet. Did we hear from Freeland on that?
Of course, the Crown Prince behind this terrible activity is the same man who had a journalist brutally murdered by his personal staff and butchered while still alive. Freeland has yet to say a serious word about that.
The boy, by the way, was a Shia Muslim, a minority in Saudi Arabia that has been ruthlessly persecuted. But we do not hear concern much over that either.
And how about that Saudi war of aggression in Yemen that is known to have killed thousands of women and children? Where's our voice?
There are a good many other equally appalling matters in other lands, but you see they all involve friends of the United States, so our government is silent.
This man's being Canadian has nothing to do with the matter of being part of a large international meth ring, something that is a serious crime anywhere, and in China, as a great many places, earns you the death penalty.
