"Steve" wrote in message
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On 23-Dec-2006, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

About modern pirates interrupting shipping and coastal
security.

Sounds like C-SPAN on January 4.

I watched parts of that the other night. The Chinese Govt. doesn't mess
around with pirates: A roundup of 38 involved people (including a customs
official) followed by a quick public trial followed by public execution
(bullet to the brain). Rather painless and certainly quick with not much
suffering! IMHO, I am an opponent of the death penalty here (US) but there
is something to be said for rapid use of it when you are positive of
someone's guilt. I can see where it would be a deterrent to crime. Unlike in
our country where we keep someone on death row for 10-20 years while
spending vast amounts of money while they are going through myriad appeal
after appeal then to finally give them a lethal injection. That is not the
death penalty. that is life with the possibility of death at the end of a
long road


Fredo