First To Last Cut

One story above all others caught my attention  this week ..... in Germany (along with the Czech Republic), they still medically castrate sex offenders ..... but only if they want it. Now you might think that anything that made the world safer for women and children would be applauded, especially as this is an entirely voluntary process.

And it works .... recent research revealed that of the 104 people operated on between 1970 and 1980, only 3% re-offended, compared with nearly half of those who refused castration or were denied it by the authorities re-offending. So by my reckoning, castration meant there were 101 women and children who were not raped, compared to just 52 who were safe when the uncastrated offenders were released from prison.

Sex Offenders US

When you consider that in the USA for example 'The National Center for Victims of Crime' states that the odds of a child becoming a victim of a sex offender is 1 in 3 for girls, and 1 in 6 for boys, then we need to consider radical approaches.

In October Russian lawmakers gave first-round approval to a bill that would impose chemical castration on repeat sex offenders. Poland legalized the procedure in 2009 for offenders who rape minors or close relatives. Britain, Denmark and Sweden offer chemical castration drugs to sex offenders on a voluntary basis.

But of course the human rights brigade is all over it, with the 'Council of Europe' (europes leading human rights watchdog) complaining. Of course in these PC times the 'human rights' of a rapist and pedophile to retain the equipment to offend again on their release, is higher than the 'human rights' of women and children not to be victims of these animals. But then that's just the norm in the west now.

We really have lost our moral compass, when sex offenders 'rights' to be able to re-offend are of more importance than those of their victims rights to be safe  ....

Arab Spring Or Arab Winter

'Shabiha prisoners lay face down on the ground, hands tied behind their backs.

One-by-one, their heads were cut off. The man wielding the knife said, tauntingly, to the first: "This is for freedom." As his victim's neck opened, he went on: "This is for our martyrs. And this is for collaborating with Israel." ' ....... this is an extract from a BBC report on the capture and execution of government forces, by the rebels in Syria. The Shabiha (or ghosts) are the government paramilitary forces, and are apparently always executed by the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

The West should really be careful of what they wish for, the 'Arab Spring'  was at its best fraught with dangers, and like all revolutions, at its worst will throw up the worst kind of animals .... remember the French and Russian Revolutions both threw up monstrous systems (the Guillotine and the Gulags for example), and its not hard to imagine the kind of Sunni theocracy that may end up running every state in the Arab world (apart from Iraq, which is Shia and aligned with the persians of Iran).

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) are no angels

These Sunni 'freedom' fighters, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), in Syria have already started attacking the Christians and the Alawites, and like in Egypt, will soon start the process of ethnic cleansing in non Muslim areas once we have helped them get into power. We have opened a Pandoras box in the Arab world, and much like that in the post communist Balkans, we may well live to regret what we have done.

The 'Arab Spring' is turning ever darker, and the likelihood is that the Sunni's will attempt to drive out the remnants of Christianity from the region - ethnic cleaning or genocide, call it what you will, but once the Muslims have expelled or killed every 'Non Believer' from the Middle East or 'Muslim lands', then their expansion into other areas is inevitable.

Worth Her Weight In Gold?

Apparently in Iran, many marriage contracts are specifying in the dowry agreement that the wife will receive gold coins equal to her weight should the marriage end in divorce. How easy it is to enter into these agreements when you are a Muslim man who wants to pop his cherry ..... and oh how they live to wish that they had stuck to solo efforts!

It seems that the divorce rates in Iran have risen by 5.5% recently and now some thousands of Iranian men who are unable to pay have ended up in in prison. Now apart from the funny element of this story, biter bitten so to speak (if you want Sharia law, then you can't moan when it works against you).

Iranian Dowry Police?

It occurs to me that one consequence of this is that you wouldn't want your wife to get fat .... imagine what this divorce cost calculation would mean for men in the US or UK?

In fact I found out for you .... a woman who weighed 12st (and that's a light one these days!), would cost you $4,340,075.80 .... This her weight of 168 pounds in gold based upon the current spot gold price of $1,771.50 per ounce. If you want to weigh up the real cost of a divorce from your sweeter and better half (Iranian Sharia style), then go here where there is a calculator for this.

Yet another good reason to resist the calls for Iranian style sharia law in the west.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

In Afghanistan, illiterate mobs have been whipped up to rampage in the streets because the US army burnt a few terrorists Korans. So far this mob violence has probably cost upwards of twenty lives, and with many more injured. I can only point out once again that hundreds of copies of the Koran have been blown up, burnt and defiled with human blood, in the frequent bombings of mosques in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Somalia to name just a few places where this frequently happens.

How many Korans blown up in mosques?

At the same time as these protests cost lives in Afghanistan, an attack in Iraq kills 55 Muslims as both the Shia population and the police are targeted, while in Pakistan, many Sunni Muslims die as a car bomb hits Peshawar bus stop. You can't make this up ..... the apparently low value put on human life in the Muslim world is almost breathtaking.

If they put even one tenth the value that they claim they do on life and even the Korans, into efforts for peace then they would finally stop the bloodshed that rages seemingly forever across the Muslim world.

Bought In The USA

The US Presidential race is throwing up some interesting stories this time, and after my stories on allegations of  election rigging in Russia, the news that after recent Supreme Court decisions that overturned campaign financing restrictions, the US election is now apparently open to a select bunch of money-men to manipulate is possibly no great surprise.

Take Sheldon Adelson, a casino billionaire ($25bn est), and a man who has decided that the fight against "the continuation of the socialist-style economy" (a view incidentally, that he apparently shares with Newt Gingrich), is worth $110m of his money to back Mitt Romney.

Sheldon Adelson - Kingmaker?

Apparently these donations make him by far and away Mr Romney's biggest backer (over 90% of his campaign funds), but apparently the idea of this one man financing of the election of the next possible President of the USA is not considered an issue in the land of the free capitalist .... but then as he is fighting the idea that "the redistribution of wealth is the path to more socialism, and to more of the government controlling people's lives", maybe its considered OK?

But from this side of the pond it looks a strange kind of one man one vote democracy ... with the billionaire being that one man.