Double standards, much?
Submitted by Madam Miaow on Wed, 2010-01-06 17:52.I am utterly opposed to the death penalty whether it's used in China, Texas or Saudi Arabia. But I'm curious as to why, while Akmal Shaikh was being executed having been caught with 4kgs of heroin, the US Blackwater operatives who massacred 17 Iraqis were being let off on a technicality in America with no equivalent anger in the media.
And why did our government and the media ratchet up the anti-Chinese hysteria as we neared poor Mr Shaikh's execution when what was needed was quiet diplomacy?
I look forward to Britain setting an example and releasing or treating humanely all its prisoners who have mental illness.
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http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/2009/12/china-executes-british-man-by-let...
Copenhagen:
http://madammiaow.blogspot.com/2009/12/sinophobia-and-copenhagen-open-le...