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My ideal scenario:

The kind of guys that did this get matched up with their opposite number, such as the terroists in Iraq and Afghanistan and we have a show ala "The Deadliest Warrior", without the computer simulation but the real deal.

Disgusting.

Disgusting indeed.

I wish all manner of horrible things upon the scum who did it.

Well, it's hardly surprising, unfortunately.

When you demonize a people/culture, people are going to see them as demons....

I just hope justice is served.

CT GAMER wrote:Disgusting indeed.

I wish all manner of horrible things upon the scum who did it.

We might not agree on a whole lot, but I'm with you on this one 100%.


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Slarg232 wrote:Well, it's hardly surprising, unfortunately.

When you demonize a people/culture, people are going to see them as demons....

I just hope justice is served.

Sad but true.


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I just read the lady died.
I really hate cowards like the person(s) that did this to her, regardless of circumstance.

Indeed, perhaps the title could be corrected, as she has died.

Oh, this is going to go over really well.

Just what we needed, Americans beating Arabs to death. Yeah, this is bad.

In my first week in LA the news reported 18 murders over the weekend, one weekend. Sixteen murders were reportedly gang related. Nothing surprises me about Southern California.

Remember the beginning of Predator 2, Frazz?

Manchu wrote:Remember the beginning of Predator 2, Frazz?

Yep. Just another day in paradise.

The ones who did this desserves the capitol punishment, I am normaly against it but in these cases its more than justified.

Why just this one?

I am also interested to hear the answer to that question.

Is this the accepting trendy Liberal State America so dearly wants? I clearly have some doubts now.

rockerbikie wrote:Is this the accepting trendy Liberal State America so dearly wants? I clearly have some doubts now.

We didn't say we have it. But yes we do want it.

Trondheim wrote:The ones who did this desserves the capitol punishment, I am normaly against it but in these cases its more than justified.

Why? Because she's Arab?

Amaya wrote:

Trondheim wrote:The ones who did this desserves the capitol punishment, I am normaly against it but in these cases its more than justified.

Why? Because she's Arab?

I assume because it's a racially motivated crime...

She was Iraqi, not Arabian.

purplefood wrote:

Amaya wrote:

Trondheim wrote:The ones who did this desserves the capitol punishment, I am normaly against it but in these cases its more than justified.

Why? Because she's Arab?

I assume because it's a racially motivated crime...

Why does a racially motivated crime deserve a more severe sentence?

Frazzled wrote:She was Iraqi, not Arabian.

Okay, since when has Arab = Arabian? Arabian would be nationality, Arab is an ethnicity. Iraqis are primarily Arabs.

Amaya wrote:

purplefood wrote:

Amaya wrote:

Trondheim wrote:The ones who did this desserves the capitol punishment, I am normaly against it but in these cases its more than justified.

Why? Because she's Arab?

I assume because it's a racially motivated crime...

Why does a racially motivated crime deserve a more severe sentence?

Frazzled wrote:She was Iraqi, not Arabian.

Okay, since when has Arab = Arabian? Arabian would be nationality, Arab is an ethnicity. Iraqis are primarily Arabs.

Iraqis aren't 'Arab.'

A correct statement would be, some Iraqis are Arab, some Iraqis are not Arab.

I know it's complicated, like how not all Americans are white.

Amaya wrote:A correct statement would be, some Iraqis are Arab, some Iraqis are not Arab.

I know it's complicated, like how not all Americans are white.

Am I the only person brought uip that "arab" is just this side of derogatory term?
Kurdish is not "Arab"
Shiites are Persian.
Sunnis, sort of, I guess, not really.

MR nailed it with disgusting.

Trondheim may just be speaking out of frustration and disbelief at such a brutal crime. If we want a debate on capitol punishment let's have a different thread.

I have no idea what rockerbikie is going on about. It is a poorly phrased statement that makes less sense the more I read it. I'm not sure how a woman getting murdered is an example of an 'accepting Liberal State America' or how it leads to some doubts. If anything the vast outrage and disgust would seem to show most Americans do not care what her origins were and that this kind of foolishness is not something we accept.

Frazzled wrote:In my first week in LA the news reported 18 murders over the weekend, one weekend. Sixteen murders were reportedly gang related. Nothing surprises me about Southern California.

Well the Gold Rush was a pretty crazy time, but you knew that when your wagon train headed out in the first place.

Capital Punishment? So death for killing another.

I think my blood-brother is frustrated and thus is speaking out in the emotional agony I am feeling while reading this.

All what would killing them do is put more blood on the government's hands. And many angry families.

I say we incarcerate them. Dying in a cage they spent the rest of their life in for doing something incredibly stupid is a much worse fate then any lethal injection the state can give.

Nonsense. It costs a fortune for the State to keep someone locked up for life as opposed to a minimal outlay on poison/gas/electricity etc.

It's better to spend it there then in equipping and sending soldiers off to die in some foreign land I don't think we have much business in.

filbert wrote:Nonsense. It costs a fortune for the State to keep someone locked up for life as opposed to a minimal outlay on poison/gas/electricity etc.

You have to add in the costs for all the endless appeals. Thats several million dollars.

Frazzled wrote:You have to add in the costs for all the endless appeals. Thats several million dollars.

How much to equip the police with Judge Dredd uniforms?

SilverMK2 wrote:

Frazzled wrote:You have to add in the costs for all the endless appeals. Thats several million dollars.

How much to equip the police with Judge Dredd uniforms?

I am the Law!

filbert wrote:Nonsense. It costs a fortune for the State to keep someone locked up for life as opposed to a minimal outlay on poison/gas/electricity etc.

I think executions actually end up costing more than life imprisonment due to the amount of money wasted on constant appeals. Even the execution itself is fairly expensive.

Of course, that's because we don't hang or shoot people anymore, we have to be 'humane'.

How is one form of murder more humane than another?