Saturday, September 24, 2011

News of Yesterday

The world contains many topics to unite and divide friends, families, and enemies? In the United Kingdom Essex MP Priti Patel, a “rising star” of the Tory party said that it was time for the United Kingdom to have the death penalty again. It is time to use hanging as a deterrent to crime in the United Kingdom. Patel made her remarks hours after the execution of Troy Davis, an African American man convicted for killing a Georgia police officer.

What purpose does the death penalty really serve? Is it a true deterrent to violent crime? Does having the death penalty in a state lower violent crime, make the states safer? Violence is a part of American life. Each American is affected by it in some way. I do not think that the death penalty does anything positive. All that the death penalty does is allow the state to become a murderer. The death penalty allows vengeance, and revenge to become more important than justice. How is murder ever justified, ever fair?

President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas made a formal application to the UN Security Council requesting that Palestine become a member of the United Nations. Middle East peace again is at a stale mate, it is stagnant. Neither side wants to compromise, negotiate is the latest “N” word which knows one wants to do but everyone realizes at some point it will have to happen. That there are serious problems in Israel centering around the Palestinian question is accepted, is true. But, splitting a country into two countries is not something that the UN should endorse.

Arbitration, mediation, sitting in a corner wear a dunce cap, no supper tonight make more sense than grand standing, trying to create sympathy, trying to white wash years of terrorism. The situation is more complex than I am allowing myself to explain. I am concerned that the UN is being used as a pawn between two sides who both are at fault for the strained, explosive state of affairs between them.

Peace needs to arrive before a new country is recognized, created.

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