Moral flexibility endangers lives 

 Monday 27 November 2006, 6:20 pm    The Editor
 Categories: Politics, Society   Tags: , ,

I’ve written before about the Government’s moral flexibility when it comes to matters such as the death penalty and today legal experts have warned that this flexibility will undermine Australia’s efforts to spare Australians such as the Bali Nine from the bullet:

AUSTRALIA’S inconsistent attitude to capital punishment could undermine its attempts to save members of the Bali nine from execution, legal experts warn.

[...]

Criminal barrister Robert Richter QC said pleas for clemency were weakened because the Government had failed to oppose capital punishment consistently.

“There’s a complete sort of hypocrisy about this. We’re saying, ‘Fantastic, let’s execute Saddam Hussein,’ which weakens our moral authority in arguing about the Bali nine.”

[...]

Melbourne University professor of Asian law Tim Lindsey said the Government had “lost its leverage” on the issue.

“You can’t have it both ways — if you support the death penalty for terrorists then you can’t complain when it’s applied to other offenders,” he said.

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  1.  Gravatar GrodsCorp » Opposition opposes moral flexibility (Tuesday 9 October 2007, 12:43 pm) # 

    [...] long banged on about the government’s moral flexibility and hypocrisy when it comes to the issue of the [...]


  2.  Gravatar Incompetence Inc. (Sunday 28 October 2007, 3:37 pm) # 

    Saddam Dead - Yay?…

    Well finally, after a more than fair trial (remember - “Fair trials were unimaginable under Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical rule”*) and a lengthy 15 minute appeal process, the people can celebrate with the hanging of the brutal, psychopat…


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