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To: michael97123 who wrote (159402)	2/28/2006 10:52:25 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794015

The USA has a very negligible kind of death penalty, meaning there is a minuscule proportion of criminals executed. It's not enough to provide any disincentive. If it was more certain that a murderer would be caught, then very certain that they'd be executed, the amount of executions needed would drop to something like the number of people falling off cliffs each year. People KNOW that falling off a cliff has the death penalty. Getting in front of trains has the death penalty. The death penalty is everywhere in nature. Still people get in front of trains and fall off cliffs, drown etc, so I'm not suggesting all crime will stop if execution is made more certain. But it would dissuade a LOT of people. I think that the USA isn't fighting Islamic Jihad alone. Around the ring of fire of Islam, there is opposition. Ask the East Timorese about fighting Islamic Jihad alone. Check out Beslan and Moscow. China has ructions out west. France just had Islamic riots. In Holland a Van Gogh was murdered - what could be more Dutch than a Van Gogh? That's like putting a stake through Mohammed's heart, not just a cartoon making fun of his vicious acolytes who make a joke of Islam being a "religion of peace". That's like calling a nuclear bomb a peacemaker. Yes, peace when everyone has been killed. That's not peace. Mqurice