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22 Jul 2013, 3:56 pm

[quote="Jacoby"
What do you do to an animal that is sick similarly? [/quote]

Keep it in a shelter.



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22 Jul 2013, 4:03 pm

Tequila wrote:
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Chine seems to have found a very efficient way to do it.
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That's not a real poster. That's a poster from Amnesty International from a few years back. They decided not to lose them. They are extremely good, mind you.


I have an appreciation for dark/sadistic humor and this is a good example. :D


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22 Jul 2013, 4:10 pm

NewDawn wrote:
[quote="Jacoby"
What do you do to an animal that is sick similarly?


Keep it in a shelter.[/quote]

Maybe in the Netherlands, here when an animal is sick and aggressive it is put down. If you're a cop, scratch the sick and aggressive part.



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22 Jul 2013, 4:11 pm

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I have an appreciation for dark/sadistic humor and this is a good example. :D

I found a version with English subtitles!

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22 Jul 2013, 5:15 pm

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I doubt Breivik will ever see light of day again.


Good. I think he should spend 21 years in a bare cell. That might give him some time for consideration.



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22 Jul 2013, 5:31 pm

I hope Brevik never sees the light of day and maybe he won't but 21 years being the maximum sentence in Norway seems ridiculous. Over in Scotland they released Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people on 'compassionate grounds' so I think there is some reason to fear. I know there were some questions as to if Megrahi was guilty but he wasn't released for that reason.



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22 Jul 2013, 6:02 pm

Jacoby wrote:
I hope Brevik never sees the light of day and maybe he won't but 21 years being the maximum sentence in Norway seems ridiculous. Over in Scotland they released Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people on 'compassionate grounds' so I think there is some reason to fear. I know there were some questions as to if Megrahi was guilty but he wasn't released for that reason.

21 years is only nominally the maximum sentence, in practice he's been given a life sentence.

Megrahi was released because he was a foreign national and extremely ill. In any case, Norway is not Scotland- the Scottish justice secretary made a big point about how he was carrying out "traditional Scottish values".



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22 Jul 2013, 6:09 pm

If a country has one of the lowest murder rates in the world and is not familiar with mass murder then I don't find it surprising. Especially where there are controls in place to extend the sentence.

Al-Megrahi was just a political pawn wasn't he?



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22 Jul 2013, 6:21 pm

GGPViper wrote:
Raptor wrote:
I have an appreciation for dark/sadistic humor and this is a good example. :D

I found a version with English subtitles!

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Isn't improved by that. :P

Great comedy doesn't need to state an obvious line, especially if it is image driven.



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25 Jul 2013, 9:04 pm

Jacoby wrote:
I hope Brevik never sees the light of day and maybe he won't but 21 years being the maximum sentence in Norway seems ridiculous. Over in Scotland they released Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people on 'compassionate grounds' so I think there is some reason to fear. I know there were some questions as to if Megrahi was guilty but he wasn't released for that reason.


Megrahi also was not guilty and that was quite obvious to those who watched his trial. There was expectation that he would be cleared on appeal; the compassionate grounds situation was convenient in that he had to drop the appeal so they could maintain the fiction that he was guilty.