Politics: July 2002 Archives
This past week in a Pakistan courtroom, one of the four Pakistanis who kidnapped, tortured, and killed journalist Daniel Pearl has been sentenced to death. The other three have been sentenced to life in prison. In a separate case, also in a Pakistan courtroom, a Pakistani was sentenced to death for blasphemy.
I don't care about whether or not the death penalty is right or wrong, or whether blasphemy is a crime or not. But when kidnapping/torturing/murdering is not as bad a crime as saying something, there's a problem.
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
