From: feotus@yabbs
To: Columbo@yabbs
Subject: re: run for the border
Date: Wed May  4 10:27:12 1994

" the judicial system has respect, something we lack ehre)paraphrase, but 
accurate you'll agree, froma  messga from Columbo
 
 
First, where do you draw the line between respect of culture(singapores) 
and violations of civil rights?  Do you let women beburned and killed by 
their husbands LEGALLY in India?  Do you let Hitler punish tose jews who 
broke his laws(hehe)?  You have to draw the line between violation of 
human rights, and respect fora  culture.  It's a hard decision to make.
 
As pixy pointed out, the caning thing is a lot mroe than your little mind 
could handle.  You probably thought it was just a whipping, so did I so I 
supported it at first, but when I found out what a caning really is, it to 
me is a a violation of human rights.  Possible deatha nd maiming for a 
vandal?  That isnt strong punishment, that is blatant overpowering and 
overkill to sya the least.  It dosnt generate respect at all, it generates 
mass fear of the system,  just what they want to do.
 
Will you continue letting the Chinese govt kill dissedents simply because 
you buy their story "That's how we do things oer here, in China we have a 
different view of human rights"  Chinese are still humans, so it can't be 
that much different.  Besides the ideas thatthey are claiming to base 
thier human rights on are dead even int heir own culture long ago.
 
It';s not a question of their system enforcing respect, it's a question of 
their system purposefully evoking fear in even the innocent, and having no 
concept of human rights.  nd I don't mean just American human rights, I am 
talking about the international standards, the global ones that are free 
from Americanization.