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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (124572)	9/23/2000 4:22:16 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570370

Dan Re..<<<. Long, and not very pretty. Relatively broad political support for capital punishment is one area where the US is somewhat perversely unique among first world industrial democracies. There are other areas where the US is unique, but I don't want to fan the political flames here too much.<<<< Given my druthers I would rather choose a guy who chooses to execute murderers and rapists rather than choose someone who chooses to kill babies. I can't believe the democrats on this board believe they have the advantage in this argument. Now, I realize the right to choose an abortion is a so called right, but so is the right to execute someone who has committed a henious crime. Its funny though that the democrats defend killing babies saying they want to give women the right to choose. Fine, but when a women asks for the right to choose a private or public high school for her children, the dems. refuse to let her choose. Does that make sense.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (124572)	9/23/2000 4:55:08 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570370

Daniel, Re: <Relatively broad political support for capital punishment is one area where the US is somewhat perversely unique> Wrong -- A study done in England, released last week gave a favorable vote of 90+% for capital punishment when the crimes were described(IE- at least one crime was described that 90%+ of the survey voted yes to the death penalty). It's all very well and good to ask the question 'Do you favor capitol punishment' -- and get a negative response. Well, hell, I'd rather have an ice cream cone any day than capitol punishment, so clearly I don't favor capitol punishment. It's thing to ask -- for instance -- 'An individual was involved in robbery attempt and found the 5 year old son at home alone. He tortured the son for location of the valuables. When the parents returned he stabbed the parents killing them outright, but the son survived to identify the attacker as a neighbor. Do you think capital punishment is warranted in this case?' You might still get a negative response. When you start adding in that the sons fingers were smashed with hammer blows you start getting positive responses, and the more you describe the fictitious crime the more positive the results become for capital punnishment. When you describe the crime as 'and he downgraded, then upgraded, then the company pre-announced crappy earnings -- all in two weeks, I think the vote for capital punishment would surely increase ;]. tgptndr