Di Amerika Serikat soal hukum mati biasanya menjadi kontroversi pro dan kontra. Yang terakhir cukup rame adalah vonis mati atas McFee yang ngebom gedung pemerintah di Midwest dan menelan korban banyak orang termasuk anak-anak kecil.
Tentang Saddam? Sampai sekarang belum ada yang menyoalkan. Mungkin karena sedang sibuk melakukan pemilu mid-term. Ya, Bush dan Partai Republik mencoba memanfaatkan vonis itu sebagai propaganda untuk mendongkrak Partai Republik yang secara nasional sedang tumbang dalam suasana pemilu sekarang ini. Popuplaritas Bush juga turun drastis, sehingga banyak kalangan dari partanya yang menghindarinya. Hari ini Selasa, hari pemilu dilaksanakan, tapi tampaknya vovis mati untuk Saddam itu tidak ada gaungnya di ruang voting berlangsung. Memang, soal perang di Iraq dan sekuriti dalam negeri menjadi tema utama di ruang voting hari ini, tetapi tidak ada kaitannya dengan vonis Saddam yang dicoba untuk dipakai oleh Bush untuk mendongkrak partainya itu. Maka diperkirakan Partai Demokrat tampaknya akan berhasil mengambil alih pimpinan House dan Senat. Dengan demikian, maka diperkirakan politik luar negeri Bush, terutama politik perangnya, secara keseluruhan akan dirombak habis. Tapi hasil finalnya bisa saja muncul sebagai kejutan! Kalau ini yang terjadi, maka tidak akan ada perobahan apa-apa. Ik.- --- In [email protected], Harry Adinegara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Semua negara EU tidak menghargai hukuman mati atas diktator Saddham Husein, karena hukuman mati ditolak dan tidak diberlakukan di negara Uni Eropah. > > Tapi ternyata ada kejanggalan dalam sikap hukuman mati, seperti Inggris dan Australia rupanya sikapnya tidak konsisten alias bin mencla mencle. > Kedua negara ini tidak memberlakukan hukuman mati di negaranya masing2 tapi tetap mendukung putusan hukuman mati atas diri Saddham Husein. Ini namanya tidak konsisten, mencla mencle dan hipokrit. > > Apakah hukuman mati akan mengubah sikon di Iraq? Aku kira eksekusi Saddham akan membuat kawasan TinTeng tambah kisruh, gawat dan akan merambat keseluruh dunia dampak negatipnya. > > Harry Adinegara > > > http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20707879- 1702,00.html > > Vatican says 'don't hang Saddam'By staff writers with wires November 06, 2006 > > VATICAN officials have said overnight that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein should not be put to death even if he has committed crimes against humanity because every life is sacred. Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Vatican's Council for Justice and Peace, said that carrying out the death sentence by hanging would be an unjustifiably vindictive action. > "For me, punishing a crime with another crime which is what killing for vindication is would mean that we are still at the point of demanding an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," he said. > "Unfortunately, Iraq is one of the few countries that have not yet made the civilised choice of abolishing the death penalty," said Cardinal Martino, effectively the Pope's justice minister. > Cardinal Martino raised the ire of the United States government three years ago when he said the U.S. troops had treated Saddam "like a cow" when they captured him. > Jesuit priest Father Michele Simone, deputy director of the Vatican-approved Jesuit journal Civilta Cattolica, said opposing the death penalty for Saddam did not mean accepting what he had done. > "Certainly, the situation in Iraq will not be resolved by this death sentence. Many Catholics, myself included, are against the death penalty as a matter of principle," he told Vatican Radio. > "Even in a situation like Iraq, where there are hundreds of de facto death sentences every day, adding another death to this toll will not serve anything," Father Simone said. > > The European Union was more guarded in its response, reflecting the anti-death penalty stance of many European nations. "The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either." > Human rights group Amnesty International was similarly critical, saying: "The court was not impartial. There were not adequate steps taken to protect the security of defence lawyers and witnesses." > The British Home Secretary said the decision reinforced the new Iraq: "It is in a sense the ultimate expression of the sovereignty of Iraq. They are masters of their own destiny. And they have taken a decision today as controllers of that destiny which I think all of us ought to respect." > New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark said today the guilty verdict handed down to Saddam Hussein was "appropriate," but she did not want him executed. > Ms Clark said it was no surprise Saddam was found guilty "and I personally think that's a highly appropriate verdict". "However, I have a long-standing objection to the death penalty and that will always be a concern to me," Miss Clark told New Zealand's Newstalk ZB. For former Kuwaiti oil minister Ali Al-Baghli, there was no doubt about what the verdict meant. "This is good news...Saddam deserves to be hanged because of the atrocities he inflicted on his people for the past 35 years and on his neighbours also. He sent millions of people to their deaths." Reuters > The former Iraq president's sentence was greeted with more predictable enthusiasm by the verdict's chief sponsors, the Bush administration. > Mr Bush did not directly address the death sentence. "Saddam Hussein's trial is a milestone in the Iraqi people's effort to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law," Mr Bush said in Waco as he left for Nebraska and Kansas to campaign for Republican candidates. > "It is a major achievement for Iraq's young democracy and its constitutional government," he said. > White House spokesman Tony Snow called it "a good day for the Iraqi people." He and other Republicans seized on it as a sign of progress in Iraq. > But the US Democrats said justice was served but that it was unclear how the verdict would change the course of the war. > "The Iraqis have traded a dictator for chaos. Neither option is acceptable, especially when it is our troops who are caught in the middle," said Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. > "We have seen milestones pass in Iraq before, with no lasting signs of progress," he said. "If today's sentencing is to be any different, we need to take a new direction in Iraq." > The US secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said: "Today's decision is a hopeful reminder to all Iraqis that the rule of law can triumph over the rule of fear and that the peaceful pursuit of justice is preferable to the pursuit of vengeance." > Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said that Hussein "Is facing the punishment he deserves. > Meanhwhile, neighbours Iran, with whom the Saddam-led Iraq fought a bloody eight-year war, said: "The Islamic Republic of Iran, remembering the inhuman crimes of Saddam and his allies against the Iraqi, Iranian and Kuwaiti nations, and the necessity of preserving the rights of these nations, welcomes the verdict." > > > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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