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Bali bombers to be executed

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I hear that the Bali bombers may be executed in the next few days. While I have little sympathy with them, is it right for Australian's to rejoice over their deaths? Some Australians are opposed to the them being executed simply because Australia opposes the death penalty. Others feel that this is a matter for Indonesia to decide as the crime was committed by Indonesians in Indonesia.
Posted by Steel Mann, Thursday, 17 July 2008 1:09:31 PM
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Dear Steel Mann,

Of course it would not be right for Australia
to rejoice over the execution of the Bali
Bombers.

The taking of a human life is not something
to rejoice over.

But, I don't live in Indonesia, and this is a
system of justice that has one set of rules for the locals,
another for foreigners.
Only they can make the decision as to what will
deter future murderous actions amongst their
own fundamentalist extremists.

The Bali Bombers were supposedly going to be executed
several years ago. They keep appealing the decision.
And the media is told it will happen "soon."

Whether it does or not, is up to their courts to
decide.

I feel sorry for the families of the 202
victims who perished as a result of these bombers
in that Bali nightclub in 2002.

Taking other lives will not bring back their
relatives. Would it deter others from commiting
similar crimes?

Who knows?
Posted by Foxy, Thursday, 17 July 2008 3:04:06 PM
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Ain't gonna throw a party for it, but you'll struggle to find someone who'll miss them.
Posted by StG, Thursday, 17 July 2008 3:16:37 PM
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Anyone who has read the recent thread about Schapelle Corby will know my view but I will say it anyway -

Good riddance, shame it has taken this long to meander through the process.
Posted by Col Rouge, Thursday, 17 July 2008 3:42:51 PM
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"It is appointed unto men but to die once, then the judgment"...Hebrews 9:27 (no reincarnation).
In this case of the bombers it would be the pits of hell (see Mary K.Baxter-journey to Hell) until the Great White Throne Judgment, over 1,000 years away.
Id rather see them with life in prison.
Many people come to know Jesus as Lord and Saviour in prison and are set free from the Final Judgment...even mass murderers.
Gods a great love for all.
Posted by Gibo, Thursday, 17 July 2008 4:10:16 PM
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Yet in the Afghanistan war we can apparently murder as many civilians as we want, and continue to 'laud' the war (at least in our government).
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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/27/2810/
Published on Friday, July 27, 2007

"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Dozens of civilians, including women and children, have been killed in two foreign air strikes in southern Afghanistan, residents and a local member of parliament said on Friday.

One of the raids by NATO hit houses in the Girishk district of Helmand province on Thursday evening, killing up to 50 civilians, a group of some 20 residents reported to journalists in Kandahar, the main city in the south. "

11 July 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501538.stm
"US 'killed 47 Afghan civilians'
Medical staff help a boy injured in Sunday's attack
Medical staff help a boy injured in Sunday's attack

A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1636551,00.html

"Government officials say that more than 90 civilians died this week as a result of NATO and US operations, part of the 230 that a consortium of aid agencies, including CARE, Save the Children and Mercy Corps, estimate have died since the beginning of the year due to ill-planned military operations."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/30/AR2007063000537_pf.html
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 30 -- Just a week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised international forces for being "careless," Afghan officials reported Saturday that possibly 100 or more civilians had been killed in a NATO and U.S.-led assault."
Posted by Steel, Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:36:13 PM
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