i had to stay off Facebook yesterday because the rage i felt when reading all the sob stories about the executions reached Biblical proportions.
- no, i don't support the death penalty for Australian law.
- i do, however, have to grudgingly respect the sovereign law of other countries. i do NOT have a right to tell them how to hand down their laws.
- i will, however, support Australian law over cultural laws where in Australia those cultural mores will harm Australian residents, regardless of their ethnicity. for example, helping women flee abusive husbands.
it's not black and white.
but on the day that two repeat offender drug smugglers were executed, another woman died as a result of domestic violence. she was number 34 in Australia this year alone. where was the outrage? where were the sit-ins? the famous musicians holding candlelight vigils? where was the MERCY hashtag Twitter storm when this woman died?
i can't stop the corruption in our judicial system, or any other country for that matter, but i can say, i have no compassion for those two men why systematically set out to make money off the suffering of others. sure, people choose to use drugs. sure, people come from bad backgrounds and are more vulnerable to drug use. but how about we look at the causes and spend our energies trying to fix that, rather than weep over deaths that they themselves asked for with their own choices.
i feel for their families. i've lost loved ones to drugs, depression, alcohol, suicide and even murder. no mother can watch her child die and not feel like she could have done something to prevent it.
but whilst the media frenzy weeps and moans over those two men, 34 women so far this year have died at the hands of their partners - and the media silence is deafening.
i'd ask for my old Shrieking Violet username back but it might confuse the newer peeps - or make Knuckles more paranoid about my judgement than he already is :tape2:
