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December 30, 2009
The rule of law
Like the overwhelming majority of British people, I could not care less for the fate of "British drug smuggler" Akmal Shaikh, executed on Darwinian grounds for attempting to smuggle nine pounds of heroin into mainland China. For historical reasons, the Chinese are a bit touchy on the subject of British heroin smugglers. For more recent historical reaons, the Chinese no longer hesitate to execute a man with a British passport.
We are weak and they are strong, you see.
Mr Shaikh, who used to manage a cab firm in Kentish Town, had denied any wrongdoing. His family said they were ‘deeply saddened, stunned and disappointed’ by the execution, which was carried out in Urumqi.
Mr Shaikh was the first EU national to be executed in China since 1951.
Not only are the Chinese unswayed by Frankfurt School bleating about hegemony (should America's Marxists ever get around to condemning anyone but America, Israel and the West), the Chinese are strangely unmoved by the insanity defense. Perhaps the Chinese are still hypnotized by the illusion of "personal responsibility".
Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 30, 2009 07:54 AM
