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\"OK UNITED STATES that no happen again. We put him dead! He just one person, but do all those bad things! You buy lots of stuff now!\"
\"OK UNITED STATES that no happen again. We put him dead! He just one person, but do all those bad things! You buy lots of stuff now!\"
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1 word:
s*c*a*p*e*g*o*a*t
Ok, so you killed one and stopped the corruption he did. thats fine. good for you. but removing one scapegoat isnt gonna fix a thing.
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The world would be a much, much better place if we line all CPC members up, and then shoot them.
Every one of them is a corrupt opportunist with no moral decency.
Why do these sorts of posts always bring the racists out the woodwork?
That having been said, China's attempts to solve their corruption problem through executions is disturbing.
Is it really over the top? Their greed allowed Chinese consumers to unknowingly take drugs that killed them. I think the sentence is right on target.
$300k in bribes? Sounds like he's been taking lessons from U.S. politicians. I wonder when we'll start getting this tough on our own elected officials who accept tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes for equally pervasive and disturbing 'favors'? That said, China certainly has a lot of executions (to put it mildly) left to go if they want to eliminate corruption there... oh who am I kidding, they don't. Scapegoat!
Okay - so lots of commenters got in a tizzy over not handing in the name of a Geek Squad employee doing something unethical. Now we have the reverse where it's not good enough to punish one of the bad seeds as an example to the rest.
Can you people make up your mind, already?
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We can't even manage to imprison a dude convicted of crimes related to revealing the top-secret identity of a covert nuclear arms agent. If Republicans can manage to piss in the face of national security so blatently and effectively, I highly doubt we'd be able to manage to execute our corrupt (hey: appointed by... Republicans!!) top government bureaucrats.
It doesn't mean we should stop trying, however.
why dont they issue a similar punishment to those in the drug companies that bribed the official?
They know far more the dangers of their product than the official who surely was paid to turn a blind eye to the product but may not have been aware of the dangers of such product.
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The United States imports almost everything from China, how about they import the same types of things to be used against its own corrupt politicians?
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@ Shadowfalls
Not to turn this into a political thread, but as evidenced by the Scooter Libby sentence commutation, our politicians and the people that work for them are above the law.
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@racermd:
Death is ALMOST never the right answer to right a wrong. Look at China. A messed up nation going at extremes to solve problems.
The world needs to boycott that insane nation.
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Sounds fair to me, maybe thats how we should treat all corrupt government officials.