WARNING: Serious entry ahead.
WMD’s
So, Libya has admitted to having WMD’s.
And they are going to let weapons inspectors in AND decommission their existing WMD’s.
But here is the thing.
Who the hell are we to demand anything?
Or, to put it another way…
When, Mr’s Bush and Blair, are Britain and America going to decommission their WMD’s?
Out of all of the countries that are allowed to possess nuclear weapons, who the hell decided that one of them should be the ONLY country to fire them in anger?
Who made us the policemen of the world?
Why shouldn’t Iraq and Libya have weapons of mass destruction? If their good enough for us, why not them?
So come on Bush and Blair.
Lead by example. Or is it a case of do as we say not as we do?
Meanwhile a couple of things have raised an old debate in Britain.
The first is the capture of Saddam Hussein by the US (helped by information supplied by the Kurds*).
(Before anyone says anything, although I was opposed to the war, the capture of Hussein is a good thing and will hopefully bring peace to Iraq.)
The second is the outcome of the Soham trial.
(For the uninitiated, this was the trial of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr for the murders of Holly Simpson and Jessica Wells. Huntley was found guilty on two counts of murder, Carr for perjury and perverting the course of justice.)
Both of these have got people calling for the death penalty and, in the second case, reintroducing the death penalty in Britain.
My opinion on this?
I’m against.
Some people are against the death penalty out of concern for the human right of the prisoner.
Bullshit.
In all arguments for the death penalty the prisoner in question has been convicted of murder. They did not give a shit for the human rights of their victims so why should give a shit about their human rights?
My opposition is, quite simply, this:
It’s murder.
All murder is wrong. Whether it’s countries murdering soldiers and civilians in wars without justification, someone taking someone else’s life for no good reason or the state taking the life of a prisoner, it’s murder. And it’s wrong.
There is only one reason I can think of to take someones life outside a justified war. I will probably talk about that another time.
But the death penalty is murder dressed in fancy clothes and excuses.
And it’s wrong.
*Source: BBC News 24 broadcast, on BBC1, on the day of Saddams arrest.
Postscript: some might argue that Saddams arrest and Libyas decommissioning are justification for the war in Iraq. They are not. They are by products. The justification was WMD’s. The ones we have yet to find.
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