This is awful.

I think they will shoot him.

Quote:


http://www.theage.com.au/national/remorseful-rush-pleads-for-his-life-in-bali-co...

if they do that they are going to create a lot of ill-feeling among Australians who abhor capital punishment.
When it comes to stuff like this, that is one thing that Australians have a long memory about, and although largely unspoken, it will reach from the community level right up through the government ranks.
Australia holds a humanitarian position regarding punishments for crime.
It is a cornerstone of Australian culture.

you don't actually know if that was the case.
and the severity of the crimes in each case are vastly different as well.
if amrozi had done that in Australia he would not have been executed.

Actually, people in the situation of Rush in particular would be particularly useful to Australia. The Australian government should have been saying to the Indonesians for years now that Indonesia should not be having to foot the bill for Australians in their prisons where the crime is alleged to have arisen in Australia (eg drug importation). In those cases, where an Indonesian sentence was imposed, the Australian government should have invited the return of those prisoners to Australia to serve their sentences, where they could also act as ongoing "anti drug ambassadors", as Scott Rush now wants to be.

It would be a very good ongoing deterrent to others who might be like minded in Australia.

Aussie wrote on Aug 27^th, 2010 at 9:43pm:


To you he is a dumb mule.
To others, me included, he was complicit in a drug running scenario which would have seen more drugs deliberately brought into the country and to blight further lives.

How was he dumb?
He didn't know it was wrong?
He didn't see the SIX signs between the airport entry and the point he was arrested which declare "DEATH PENALTY FOR DRUG TRAFFIKING"?

Ask the families of drug addicts and drug deaths if this is a victimless crime?

"to south east Asian nations, Australia is a push-over"

Australian culture has at its foundation an humanitarian, progressive attitude to punishment for crime. It comes from our history and our cultural memory of the injustice of systems in Britain which were like the ones you are describing are still today.
It is a proud and honourable attitude to have as a country. Death penalties bring down the country which exercises them. It is psychologically damaging to the national psyche to do and allow those sorts of inhumane penalties.
Don't worry about south east Asian nations. Most of them know Australia and Australians are not "push overs", as many of them have witnessed as our allies and our opponents.
It is a brave thing to do not to impose the death penalty even for crimes where death has been occasioned.
Most other countries in the world have not risen to that stage yet, and need to make some serious psychological changes to do that.
Australia already has.

Executing one drug mule is not going to solve the problem. That is a simplistic, very unsophisticated approach to the problem.
Get to the REAL suppliers. You don't hear much about them do you?
LOOK INTO IT, and stop being a simpleton.

It is nothing to do with "one of us". No one gets the death penalty in Australia any more, and it was a long hard fight to achieve that.
It stands as a monument of our culture and it will not be changed back again. It does not matter how bad is the crime in Australia, the nation is not brought down to the same level by officially killing someone.

We are a humanitarian people. Most countries are not.

LOOK IT UP IN THE DICTIONARY - HUMANITARIAN;
and learn.

July 29 2010
My daughter, I desire that you make known to My people in the Americas that I, Jesus, desire they participate in bringing about a number of underground shelters for the safety of those who are to be the remnant of salvation.  Soon, very soon, the world will be plunged into the black apostasy that will engulf the world.  There will be war and through the availability and use of nuclear power, the annihilation of many parts of the world and its inhabitants will be brought about.  God does not to desire you to fear.  He desires your response and your swift action to bring about this work.

My daughter, I desire you make this known throughout the world.  The world's powers are in the grasp of a great unrest and the preparation of war is now a reality in union with antichrist.  He is about the create a great abomination.  The world as you know it will become changed and disfigured.  World powers are at work, drawing upon the forces of evil to cause destruction.  All transactions through banks and all government services throughout the world will be make powerless.  The leaders of all nations will be rendered helpless to intervene.  Food will be limited.  Hunger and death will be everywhere.  Great calamities and disasters will befall the world. The waters will be poisoned. 

             Make preparation now.  The world is about to fall into the depths of its own sin.  All that you have will be seized.  Your money will be worthless.  There will be death all around you.  God's mercy will be there if people turn to Me but it grieves Me that their hearts will not choose to partake in My Mercy.  Rather they will prefer to squirm in conforming to man's way.  I am He who is Alpha and Omega for ever and ever.  How I still yearn for people to respond to Me rather than die.  My Sacred Heart will draw all those who desire to respond for the purpose of ensuring the continuance of the work of salvation.  The time is here when all men will be tempted to think only of self.  The sea will cover much land and many people will be lost because they choose to remain blind to the call of My Mother and their denial of Truth.  My daughter, you will receive much mockery from those who do not want to respond.  Soon they will cry out and seek you out to help them but it will be too late for many.  The waters of death have moved and moved quickly.  Time has been set for the world's destruction.  Its perversion is limitless.  My daughter, be at peace.  Make known all I tell you.  Those who can recognize Truth will respond.  I desire you to guide My people through My working in you.  You are in the time of the 'opening of the door and the closing of the gate' - the great tribulation.

Fear not, My daughter, I am with you.  In your heart let My guidance abide.

My  blessings be upon you.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Encore: -

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Aug 28^th, 2010 at 6:38am: