It's time to end the death penalty in America

Last week, Amnesty International released it's 2010 report on the use of the death penalty across the globe.  The information should be particularly embarrassing for Americans, as the United States was among the Top 10 countries to use capital punishment. 


The United States of Evil

What could be more humiliating than murdering more prisoners than all but 4 other countries?  Well, the company we're in.  Only China, Iran, North Korea and Yemen killed more in 2010 than the U.S.  We may like to think we're the good guys of the global neighborhood, but we're rubbing elbows with George W. Bush's entire axis of evil.  If one is judged by the company one keeps, we might have to include ourselves on W.'s list, even without taking into account the number of people Barack Obama's America killed last year using the "War on Terror" as an excuse.

Rounding out the list:  Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Bangladesh and Somalia.  It should be noted here that these countries took the lives of around half or fewer prisoners last year than the United States.  I wonder how many war-mongering, death-penalty-supporting social conservatives in America would consider any of the other 9 countries on this Top 10 as having a "culture of life".

Encouraging developments
But there's reason for hope.  Amnesty International notes the global trend is away from using the death penalty. 

At the end of 2010 the global trend towards abolition of the death penalty could not have been clearer... The number of countries that are abolitionist in law or practice has substantially increased over the past decade, rising from 108 in 2001 to 139 in recent years.

Furthermore, in the American state probably most identified with use of the death penalty, Texas, a two-year moratorium has been proposed in the state legislature.  As goes Texas, so goes the nation?  Let's not get carried away.  That said, the state of Illinois just completely abolished capital punishment.  Maybe MLK was right when he said the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, albeit ever so slowly.

One final glimmer of hope is the recent news that Hospira, Inc. - the only U.S. manufacturer of an essential lethal injection drug - stopped making the drug a year ago, and scarce supplies will soon expire.  We have Italy's opposition to the death penalty to thank here.  (Thank you, Italy!)

Ultimately, you can't fuck for virginity.  You can't fight for peace.  And you certainly can't prove killing is wrong by killing killers.  Let's work together for a less evil America.  Support the movement to abolish the death penalty in your state.  Kansas could be next.  Click here to send a message to Kansas legislators supporting a bill to outlaw capital punishment.

First evidence Yemen bomb scare was false flag op

The first revealing evidence that the Yemen bomb scare was not what our government and major media made it out to be took less than 24 hours to surface.  I see this as proof that the collective conscience of the world is "on to" the game being played by New World Order/Illuminati/Bilderberg/Rothschild factions.  They no longer have the wherewithal to pull another 9/11 over our eyes.

Yemen officials claim the packages didn't come from their country.  Furthermore, there weren't even any cargo planes that left the Arab nation in the previous 48 hours!

“No UPS or DHL cargo packages heading to Chicago through Yemen took place in the last 48 hours,” insisted Yemenia Airways’ Air Cargo Director Mohammed Shaibah. Officials with the nation’s Civil Aviation Authority insisted that ono US cargo aircrafts left the nation at all in the past 48 hours.

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 I saw it in the non-stop coverage on MSNBC, CNN and CNN Headline News.  I'm sure FOX News was on it, too - it feeds their slant - but I refuse to watch that channel so I didn't see them do it.  I did see ABC break in with news of the plot in the morning.  The way it was covered, the presidential news conference, the timing...It all stinks of bullshit.

I saw it.  I called it.  I tweeted it.  And already the proof is coming out that the whole episode is half-baked and ill-planned.  How much money did news organizations waste on helicopter fuel to track the passenger jet coming into JFK?  How much taxpayer money was spent in jet fuel to scramble the interceptors?  How much sleep was lost by everyday Americans whipped back into a tizzy by terror coverage?

Stop being scared, friends.  Al Qaeda was manufactured.  9/11 was manufactured.  7/7 was manufactured.  Virtually all terror threats are manufactured.

And what the fuck, Barack?  Et tu?  Just another instance to solidify for me why I'll never vote for Barack Obama again.  He's a part of the game now.

In the words of Jesus Christ: Be not afraid.