FROM THE WEST
The trial of five American soldiers from the 101 / Airborne Division in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al Janabi, Iraqi girl is 14 years old - and the killing of her family.
The facts were disclosed by the testimony of Pfc James Barker and Sergeant Paul Cortez, who agreed to cooperate declaring his guilt in exchange for the guarantee of avoid the death penalty. (Call them idiots! .. I say this, not the West.)
March 12, 2006, in one of the camps in the U.S. and around Baghdad, Barker is playing cards with his buddy, Pfc Steven Green. To switch time, to relieve tension and to revive the fatigue of long hours at checkpoints in the oppressive heat, they send down whiskey mixed with an energy drink. Among gi jokes and jokes in bad taste, it makes the idea of \u200b\u200bhaving sex with an Iraqi girl, launched a little 'to goliardaggine and a bit' to swagger by Green - a classic bad element, 21, came in ' still a minor army to escape a conviction for alcohol consumption, and later taken over by his superiors for drug use and, again, for alcohol abuse. They were joined by Sergeant Paul Cortez, 24, and the soldiers of the first class Jesse Spielman, 22, and Bryan Howard, 19. Barker and Green had planned all: a family in Mahmudiya, a small village about thirty kilometers from Baghdad. The girl is really little more than a child, but only one man in the house, the father, to protect his wife and daughters. also easy to find a pretext for the expedition: track suspected terrorists.
The five burst in the home. Green and Cortez drag the family into the bedroom, leaving Green guard, Cortez returned to stay with friends from the larger of the two daughters, Abeer, and rapes her. Then comes the turn of Barker. Suddenly, the shooting: "I've killed," said Green entered the living room, without expression, "are all dead." Barker hurries to finish with Abeer. Then comes the turn of Green. Spielman and Howard are the first guard, then participating in the rape. Meanwhile, Green began to pour kerosene on the bodies, the soldiers are laying the wearing of uniform and clean. Even the AK-47 with which Green shot will be made to disappear in a gutter, not far away. The fact remains that every passing instant, the young Abeer-terrified and crying - is becoming less a plaything, and increasingly dangerous. Green tip of the gun to his temple and fired, once, twice, thrice. Green kindle the fire that would soon erase almost all other remains of this inhuman tragedy.
Now the soldiers facing court martial in the process. All but Steven Green, the Army (not yet aware) then dismissed for "personality disorders". Despite the testimony of his fellow soldiers who point as the initiator of the crime, Green insists on proclaiming himself innocent. James Barker has already been sentenced to 90 years in prison for murder and rape, to be served in a military prison, confessed in tears, saying he does not even feel worthy to ask forgiveness of the court. Cortez, has also shown remorse in recalling the facts, while taking into consideration his cooperation, it was nevertheless sentenced to 100 years' probation, with the prohibition of appeals before 10 years. The most recent - but not the last - ruling is that of Jesse Spielman, issued Aug. 5, the sentence for Spillman is 110 years for murder and rape, and also d labors to wait at least 10 years before applying for parole . It awaits the conclusion of the trial for Howard, and especially the verdict for Green, who having been expelled from the army will be judged by a civil court, risking the death penalty .
... upset?? BEH resisting because 'not all! REPUBLIC OF
ROME - not killed anyone, nor is the accomplice of a murder, but Kenneth Foster August 30, 30, will be executed. The sentence has implemented a law in force only in Texas, according to which a person is responsible for a crime committed by others if he acted with the intent to promote or assist the completion of this crime. " Foster was driving the car which was used in the flight of Maurice Brown, the perpetrator of a robbery that degenerated into murder, and executed for this crime a few years ago.
Brown attempted to rob a young man, but something went wrong, opened fire and killed him. All the time that Foster, according to Brown's own testimony and that of the other person was in the car, did not move from his seat. Also unaware of the intentions of his friend.
But the young father of slain lawyer very skilled and the most famous of San Antonio, was able to prove that Foster had planned the murder along with Brown, and that was enough to get the death sentence given that, as claimed by many activists against the death penalty have followed the case in Italy, the offender is black, poor, comes from a very dysfunctional family and was not able to pay enough lawyers with disabilities.
Many events and public opinion campaigns have been promoted in his favor, the United States and recently also in Italy. There are several sites, in English, Italian, French and German in which you can find the form to send an appeal to the governor of Texas, which so far has proved deaf to these stresses. After all, Texas, emphasized the same newspapers, is the leader for the strict implementation of laws on the death penalty. According to the U.S. site Associated Content, among other things, there are between 80 and 100 convicts awaiting execution, who were convicted without killing anyone. Those situations are similar to those of Foster, falls under the 'law of parties'.
REASONS AND NOW!
Five soldiers raping and killing a fourteen year old and his family and ten years can ask for parole (and knowing how these things go, most likely will get).
A boy of 19 years driving a car, stay in the car while his friend commits murder, and ten days will be killed.
Something is terribly sick in this system.
The death penalty is wrong. Always and for all. E 'mistaken for a Saddam Hussein, for Benito Mussolini, for a Tito or Stalin ... I would even for a George W. Bush (scandalized by the juxtaposition? Just because Bush has painted the American rifles with the colors of the rainbow, and which has the slapped on a label that says "peace" does not mean that less of the murderess more ... or just because Guantanamo is not as famous as the gulag or concentration camps, does not mean it will not end in the history books one day as the cradle of atrocities and torture ...).
I would not do, however, the moral is easy ... easy to say that it is against the death penalty is not less likely to desire the death of those who robbed us for ever a person we love. So I would not condemn the father who believes that revenge is the solution to his pain. I do not know whether or not revenge is the solution.
But a state is not revenge ... and if he does pergiunta discriminating, then not only is a state unfair, but it is also hypocritical ... and then it deserves all the scorn and condemnation of this World.
I'm not saying that these soldiers should be sentenced to death.
The State gives life and therefore can not claim the right removing it. The State regulates the freedom of citizens. And it is the only thing that thing that can steal.
The absurdity, irrationality and unreality of what is happening in Foster seems so obvious that it is perhaps superfluous Fersini comment.
But if all this were so obvious, then the death sentence would not have been issued.
Foster was wrong, no one puts in dubbio.poteva choose. had to make that step. could stop his friend. was wrong and has to pay. But even if we accept for a moment that you have to pay a life with the life, well ... he did not kill.
How can a single just been having so much hypocrisy in itself?? Those soldiers have raped, killed, burned bodies and continue, as is' OK, to live, paying with their freedom to the crime. Foster, as unfortunately is likely to be, to die '.
But this is America, Ladies and Gentlemen ... it is the state of contradiction. And 'the state that laughs at himself, what is symbolized by the Statue of Liberty' and that freedom destroys it, he writes his peace with the blood, the superpower that everything is permitted.
It 's true ... in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, China and many (too many) other countries in the world, there is the death penalty. But those countries, at least, are not meant to be hypocritical holders Absolute Freedom ', peace, equality, GIUSTIZIA.Gli U.S. ARE NOT A COUNTRY FREE, NOT A COUNTRY THAT APPLIES TO ENSURE THAT 'THERE IS PEACE, NOT A COUNTRY WHERE ARE ALL THE SAME AND SO ARE NOT A COUNTRY FAIR.
I am not just like it does not include Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, China ... but claim to be ... and they expect us to believe it.
not stand it.
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