Whats the point?

[leefer]

Sorry if this is abit heavy,but was reading today that a student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for downloading material of the internet!..this wasnt dodgy stuff but western material which may have helped his studies,ime all for respecting peoples religion but this is shocking,but whats even worse is that the new regime which has been sanctioned by the west has upheld the decision when he appealed,so what is the point in getting rid of the Taliban if the new leaders just continue to be just as barbaric.

[BANGKOK RED]

If you where to post a link to this info, the it may help others to form their own opnion.

 :shock:

[ST_INC]

I think he means this

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7204341.stm

Story here as well

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9856107-7.html

[axs]

fucking ridiculous.

[Sussex]

Fill your boots..

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&q=Afghanistan+student+death+sentence&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

(hope the link doesn't stretch your screen too much!

[Reg Smeeton]

Sorry if this is abit heavy,but was reading today that a student in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for downloading material of the internet!..this wasnt dodgy stuff but western material which may have helped his studies,ime all for respecting peoples religion but this is shocking,but whats even worse is that the new regime which has been sanctioned by the west has upheld the decision when he appealed,so what is the point in getting rid of the Taliban if the new leaders just continue to be just as barbaric.

 Well the point is under the Taliban, Afghanistan was a training camp for terrorists....they could have quite happily carried on contravening human rights, if they supported the West.....plenty of other regimes in recent times have and many still continue to do so.

  After the twin towers attack,  Afghanistan became ripe for regime change, as long as the new regime, are pro western in foreign policy they'll get a free rein in domestic policy.

 A policy best summmed up bythe term realpolitik

[redbullzeye]

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around me
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...........

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

Perhaps if we stopped tying to export or force our west views on other nations the world would be a better place. Why do we feel as a country that we should act as a moral arbitrator for the world? We in some respects are no better what with detation without trail, police who haev the power to hold football supporters without reason for up to 9 hours, fuck me our police can even close down a party based purley on the BPM of the music being played! We even reward stupid people who get pregant at a very young age by giving them benfits and a house yes yes we turely are so superior!

[red macca]

Perhaps if we stopped tying to export or force our west views on other nations the world would be a better place. Why do we feel as a country that we should act as a moral arbitrator for the world? We in some respects are no better what with detation without trail, police who haev the power to hold football supporters without reason for up to 9 hours, fuck me our police can even close down a party based purley on the BPM of the music being played! We even reward stupid people who get pregant at a very young age by giving them benfits and a house yes yes we turely are so superior!

Rightly so in my opinion

[Gazza's Fat Mate]

Perhaps if we stopped tying to export or force our west views on other nations the world would be a better place. Why do we feel as a country that we should act as a moral arbitrator for the world? We in some respects are no better what with detation without trail, police who haev the power to hold football supporters without reason for up to 9 hours, fuck me our police can even close down a party based purley on the BPM of the music being played! We even reward stupid people who get pregant at a very young age by giving them benfits and a house yes yes we turely are so superior!

Rightly so in my opinion

wrongly so in mine! rewarding the stupid and sick etc with benfits has created an underclass of people who think it is fine not to work to steel, rob and generlly act like cunts!

[red macca]

Perhaps if we stopped tying to export or force our west views on other nations the world would be a better place. Why do we feel as a country that we should act as a moral arbitrator for the world? We in some respects are no better what with detation without trail, police who haev the power to hold football supporters without reason for up to 9 hours, fuck me our police can even close down a party based purley on the BPM of the music being played! We even reward stupid people who get pregant at a very young age by giving them benfits and a house yes yes we turely are so superior!

Rightly so in my opinion

wrongly so in mine! rewarding the stupid and sick etc with benfits has created an underclass of people who think it is fine not to work to steel, rob and generlly act like cunts!

I disagree i find the higher class person is more than a cunt

[Barry Scott]

The whole thing is laughable and typical of a "new religion".

Let 'em fucking get on with it i say, who are we to judge? Who says we are more morally right? We shouldn't really try to police the world. Freedom of speech and the so called democracy are things we take for granted and allow us a certain amount of unwarranted condescension.

What nations put there foot down to us before now? We've (the English) raped, killed and destroyed our way around the world. Our horse isn't as high as we like to believe.

[BANGKOK RED]

I'm inclined to agree with Barry to a degree.

Was the guy aware of the consequences after what he was doing when he did it? Considering that he is a reporter I would suspect that he knew full well what the implications where yet went right ahead and did it anyway, and got caught.

[Colin Todd]

lets be honest here, he was watching porn wasnt he?

[flammableBen]

I know I am. Right now. It's got a Japanese bird in it. She doesn't look like she's enjoying it much. Oh it's ok, she's changed her mind.

All is good in the world.