Quote Originally Posted by Jimbojac View Post
I have had the { mis} fortune of visiting China 3 times and it is a very strange experience, it is a God-less place thats for sure, something sinister seems to pervade the atmosphere.
I saw one poor guy, and admittedly i do not know the crime but he was bound by cable ties in a town square and routinely kicked by cops outside of a temporary Police post set up in the place.
Whilst i hate drugs and the effects they have on all, i believe that we as humans have no rights to take another life, based on the knowledge that even if the accused is maybe 1% not guilty then that is enough to not act on the most barbaric of acts albeit State sanctioned.
Incidentally i saw a report on Chinas record of human rights a number of years ago and 3 facts have haunted me ever since..............
1... The death sentence can be carried out for even trivial crimes.
2... Try this one.... a youngster with mental learning difficulties chased a young girl through a village and lifted her skirt up as a prank, { he had a proven very low mental age} he was a menace to that particular insular little village and yes you guessed it the council got together and he was executed, conveniently to get rid of him.*
3... A once fashionable execution method was to shoot the victim through the head and then get the family to pay for the bullet!
* i believe this happened in the nineties
{ Source Amnesty International}
So, food for thought eh Folks!
China has a population of 1.5 billion and a family policy of 1 child per family in other words a policy that would reduce the population, 36 % of the population are subject to this one child policy apparently, there are exceptions.

From memory they only had just over a billion when I was growing up 30 odd years ago, so it ain't worked very well.

Life is cheap in China, life is also cheap in the Philippines, harsh penalties deplete the surplus population to paraphrase a very famous British writer.