Aristides

Ten years in jail for calling Putin's special military operation a war. You live in a cave?

So what, some people are protesting. Happens all the time in free societies. You will end up in jail or worse in Putin or Xi land. Membership in NATO or the EU is not compulsory, they can leave any time they want. They might want to check out the disaster called Brexit first. Czechs are surrounded by other NATO countries who will protect them in spite of themselves.

Not until it is viable outside the womb.

At what point is a baby a separate person, are you one of those who puts a fertilized egg on the same level as a fully functioning adult? How do you reconcile forcing a woman to carry a fetus without regard for her or the future child's safety and sanity, with intentionally putting a person to death?

I'll say it one more time, putting someone to death is not the same as giving them control over their own lives and bodies. You can't seem to grasp that.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/03/01/list-of-10-high-profile-wrongful-murder-convictions-in-canada/ All convicted after "proper trials". You would have put them all to death.

I oppose legalized killing. Canada hasn't executed anyone since 1962, there is no need to start doing it again.

Ya, you did.

MEP's are elected, every five years.

You are saying putting people to death is OK as long as it is sanctioned by law.

So you are saying all laws are moral.

You fool yourself. One of the primary purposes of the EU was to make countries so interdependent, going to war with each other would be out of the question. So far that has worked. Populists like you would blow that whole thing up and return to the kind of self interested nationalism that kept them at war with each other for millennia. The only European conflicts in the last 75 years have involved countries outside the EU.

How many conflicts have there been between EU members?

I'm in my late seventies and watch him every week.

I never said that, it is a quote from Blackbird I was responding to.

Putting people to death is not the same as giving them control over their own lives.

I think this was his bit.

Stop hiding behind your god and take responsibility for your own actions.

Western Europe has done rather well. The EU has been a major reason for no conflicts in the past 75 years.

Yet you would play god and take lives because you can, even though you admit you are corrupt.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Troll, he is the only one here I have on ignore.

Courts aren't in the habit of pressing charges if there is no evidence. Unless they are Russian, Chinese etc.

My problem with Olsen was the way he was allowed to play the system when he was in prison.

I lived in the area when Olsen was on the loose and had young kids at the time. Do you really think the death penalty would have been any kind of deterrent to someone like him? There is no evidence the death penalty is a deterrent. Texas puts more people to death than any other state yet it ranks right in the middle at 25th when it comes to intentional homicide rates. If you look at homicide rates for states with and without the death penalty, they are all over the map.