An Eye for An Eye

Here's a unique story out of Iran from earlier this week. A 31 year old Iranian lady was attacked back in 2004 by a guy who sat next to her in a University class. The guy apparently was constantly hitting on this chick, and she kept turning him down. One night in 2004, this guy came up behind her and threw acid in her face, blinding her for life.

You can read the complete story here.

Now the lady has demanded that the man who attacked her, Majid Movahedi, be blinded himself as punishment. Almost like a legal street justice - an eye for an eye, quite literally. And wouldn't you know it - the lady won! Movahedi is sentenced to be blinded within the next few weeks.

Now this topic isn't going to have anything to do with the punishment that has been handed out. Is it extreme? Sure. But really, in its most basic terms, is it a fair punishment? It really is. No, you wouldn't see a punishment like this handed out in Canada or the USA.....but it was a sentencing handed out by a judge in an Iranian court.

The part that really pisses me off from the entire article is the following quote from some random blogger in response to the sentencing:

"We cannot condone such cruel punishment," wrote one blogger. "To willingly inflict the same treatment on a person under court order is a violation of human rights."

Now here is a typical liberal thinker for you. Liberals care more about criminals and their rights than they do about the victims. But if you happen to kill a tree, watch out. Liberals are people who are so open-minded that their brains have fallen right out.

Read the second part of that quote again:

"To willingly inflict the same treatment on a person under court order is a violation of human rights."

Are you kidding me? What about the human rights of the poor lady who was attacked randomly by some weirdo who should just buy a porn magazine and stay at home. In many ways, her life is ruined. She will never see again. She will have to live with the scars on her face and arms forever. And yet this liberal blogger is concerned about the "human rights" of the attacker? It makes me sick. If it were up to liberals, murderers, rapists and thieves would all live among us with 'minimum supervision' to 'blend them back into society'. Who needs these weirdos in our society?

Here is a good website about repeat offenders in Canada (although the data is a bit dated - back to 2000). It shows that six out of every ten convicted offenders aged 18 to 25 in 1999 and 2000 had at least one previous conviction. So wouldn't it be better to keep these people behind bars? You would think so. But Canada's justice system is an absolute joke.

How about the freak that randomly beheaded a sleeping passenger beside him on a Greyhound bus this past July? The judge immediately ordered that the man undergo a psychiatric evaluation, and only charged him with Second Degree Murder (First is pre-mediated.........I'm not sure why this beheading would classify as Second). Ever notice that the story has been completely dropped from the media now? Any idea why that is? It's because the guy is going to get a slap on the wrist and spend some time in a nuthouse. He won't be held accountable for his actions. Because this is Canada. We allow terrorists to enter our country and live in Montreal and Toronto. We let sex offenders and murderers out of jail after serving less time than a guy in the USA would for smoking a joint. We send the worst criminals ever seen on our soil to psychiatric evaluations instead of to jail or to death row. Canada's justice system makes me sick.