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Drug smugglers in Saudi Arabia

WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
edited July 2019 in General Discussion
Maybe that?s what we need here? Never happen!

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/07/the_morning_they_beheaded_the_drug_smugglers_it_wasnt_pretty_believe_me.html
”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
- GEORGE ORWELL -
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The Chinese and certainly as pointed out in that article Saudis have drugs under control due to strict penalty.

    We could use some of that in our penal codes.
    "What is truth?'
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saudi Arabia performs beheadings for murder, rape, armed robbery, drug smuggling, and other offenses that ?threaten the public order,? such as armed robbery. When I first arrived in Saudi Arabia, their newspapers reported the beheading of two Saudis who raped a 12-year-old shepherd girl. I sent the article to my favorite pub in Maryland. I heard that waitresses and customers alike said they wished we meted out the same punishment to child rapists in America.
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  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now there is a civilization that has advanced in reverse.


    Google "26 items banned in Saudia Arabia"
    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
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  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Damn...

    https://crossborder.fedex.com/us/assets/prohibited-restricted/saudi-arabia/index.shtml
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    bustedknee wrote:
    Now there is a civilization that has advanced in reverse.


    Google "26 items banned in Saudia Arabia"

    Why would you say in reverse. Nothing on that list is absurd to banish from the general populace when trying to keep your countries values intact.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    mag00 wrote:
    bustedknee wrote:
    Now there is a civilization that has advanced in reverse.


    Google "26 items banned in Saudia Arabia"

    Why would you say in reverse. Nothing on that list is absurd to banish from the general populace when trying to keep your countries values intact.


    But the great thing is we live in a country where no one gets to dictate our values. You and I are free to disagree on what is important or acceptable, and that is of great value. The reverse is compliance to the dictates of Allah, or Hitler, or Stalin, or whatever preacher or thug is in power.
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  • mag00mag00 Member Posts: 4,719 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog wrote:
    mag00 wrote:
    bustedknee wrote:
    Now there is a civilization that has advanced in reverse.


    Google "26 items banned in Saudia Arabia"

    Why would you say in reverse. Nothing on that list is absurd to banish from the general populace when trying to keep your countries values intact.


    But the great thing is we live in a country where no one gets to dictate our values. You and I are free to disagree on what is important or acceptable, and that is of great value. The reverse is compliance to the dictates of Allah, or Hitler, or Stalin, or whatever preacher or thug is in power.

    You and I may get to disagree, but dare you defy the powers that be.

    You have some cow from Florida trying to punish political speech. California will prosecute you if you use the wrong "pronoun".

    The 26 items were not unreasonable by any stretch. In a civilized nation you must have laws, and with the social media being as uncivilized as it is, there will be laws soon.

    The USA is going backwards with "mob rule", Saudi has a handle on their troublemakers.
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  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    A country that has lost its moral compas is lost.

    Without true law and order a land is doomed.

    Political corectness and failure to follow the traditions of the bible and the things that made our country what it has been are causeing the foudations to crumble. There are some lessons to be learned from the harsh realities of Saudi and China when it comes to treats like drugs and other things that destroy a nation.

    The 10 commandments and constitution would be a good place to start the US in a better direction.
    "What is truth?'
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  • buschmasterbuschmaster Member Posts: 14,229 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He Dog wrote:
    mag00 wrote:
    bustedknee wrote:
    Now there is a civilization that has advanced in reverse.


    Google "26 items banned in Saudia Arabia"

    Why would you say in reverse. Nothing on that list is absurd to banish from the general populace when trying to keep your countries values intact.


    But the great thing is we live in a country where no one gets to dictate our values. You and I are free to disagree on what is important or acceptable, and that is of great value. The reverse is compliance to the dictates of Allah, or Hitler, or Stalin, or whatever preacher or thug is in power.

    :lol: no one gets to dictate our values, eh? :lol: what happens when you don't "fit in"? what happens when you don't agree with someone? go ahead, see what happens.

    no, our government doesn't dictate values (so long as there aren't democrats'liberals/leftists in power) but people will never n-e-v-e-r neverever relinquish control over the rest of society, they will always do it to each other in some capacity. from Hitler/Stalin to Allah/God to Democrats/Republicans and Liberals/Conservatives, and they all believe their figureheads are good and necessary to keep the rest of society in line.

    the idea behind this country was to forgo all that in the name of Freedom and let no law rule behavior but only punish that which harms others and leave the people to themselves. and everybody knows laws aren't good enough; behavior must be governed, on a personal level, whether by a Hitler or an Allah or a Leftist movement that "takes their country back", or police that punish criminals with threats, curses and beatings when the judge isn't looking, or peer pressure with their ridicule and humiliation, or at the very least, making the laws theirs.

    reminds me of when Aristotle ragged on Democracy. there is always a flip side of the coin, and that is because neither is completely right, the other side can always be shown to be wrong or lacking. pick which one you prefer, that's all.
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,233 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    He Dog wrote:

    But the great thing is we live in a country where no one gets to dictate our values. You and I are free to disagree on what is important or acceptable, and that is of great value. The reverse is compliance to the dictates of Allah, or Hitler, or Stalin, or whatever preacher or thug is in power.

    Yep.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Saudi has a handle on their subjects.

    Fixed it for ya. :D

    Saudi Arabia is not really a country, it is a tribe with unimaginable wealth mired in the 7th century, and the primary financial backer of Wahabist Islam extremists like Isis and the Taliban; but the chief can make whatever laws he chooses. We have our problems for sure, the deep rift between the political extremes not the least, but I think we are still more better.
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