Amnesty Condemns Canada on Death Penalty
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Posted by austin in: Personal, Politics, trackback
So, Amnesty International is condemning Canada for being soft on the death penalty. I mostly agree with them. The problem isn’t Canada the nation, it’s the conservative government. Canadians are still largely against the death penalty, and support the idea that we should not extradite criminals if they are to face the death penalty, and support the idea that we should request clemency for Canadian citizens facing the death penalty in other nations.
The ConservativesReform Party, on the other hand, are a bunch of rednecks who would love to see it brought back. So, they come up with excuses as to why they’re backpedaling on forty years of precedent. They sound as lame as the Republicans do south of us.
It’s really too bad that Dion’s Liberals are too lily-livered to come up with real positions that the ConservativesReform Party can’t respond to without sounding like the rednecks they are. Or that real Progressive Conservatives can’t stand up and take their party back from Stephen Harper’s rednecks.
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And this has precisely what to do with developing in Ruby? Frankly, I can’t say I think very much of someone who uses a racist term like ‘redneck’ so casually, but in a blog about Ruby development, the real question is why you feel the need to intrude your left-wing politics in the equation.
1. “Redneck” isn’t racist. The
ConservativesReform Party are overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly rural, and overwhelmingly reactionary in their politics. Progressive Conservatives are much broader based.2. This isn’t a blog about Ruby exclusively.
3. If you have a problem with my “left-wing politics” (I am, in fact, liberal in politics compared to the U.S.; then again, so are Canada’s conservatives by and large), then you may not want to read my blog. I’m blogging about things that matter to me. One of those things is Ruby. If I was blogging exclusively about Ruby, then you wouldn’t find my Pumpkin Cheesecake recipe (which is quite good, mind you).
4. Next time, own your comment. I am modifying my comment policy to make it clear that I am no longer accepting anonymous comments. Your email address or your URL must be valid and pointing to you. If I can’t get to either, your comment will be deleted.
Anonymous -
It’s a special kind of hubris to presume you can label something off-topic or in any way inappropriate in a personal blog. Austin isn’t obligated to post about Ruby, and it’s especially laughable to think that anything he writes in it is somehow “intruding”. If you aren’t interested in anything he writes but the Ruby stuff, then get off your ass, take two seconds, look in the categories menu he’s helpfully provided to the right, and limit what you look at to http://www.halostatue.ca/category/ruby/. Or better yet, just STFU and go away.
I wouldn’t quite put it that way, Michael, but Anonymous has caused me to point out in my about page and in a separate post that I want to hear both assenting and dissenting opinions, but I want people to own up to them.
This isn’t Slashdot, and I don’t allow anonymous cowards any more.
The only fair point I’ll make to anonymous is that he (99% chance of that, don’t you think?) came to my blog via one of the many Ruby blog aggregators, possibly even through the Artima buzz.
Austin: thank you very much for this post.
Anonymous: human rights have nothing to do with left- or right-wing.