Raymond Davis freed
Bookworm on Mar 16 2011 at 8:14 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Accepting as true the narrative that Ray Davis is indeed a CIA contractor, and was working undercover in Pakistan, one of our most dangerous “friends” in the world, I am very happy to report that Davis is free and heading home. (I say “accepting as true” because, even assuming Davis is CIA, there was clearly some very deep game afoot here, so every statement uttered falls into the maybe/maybe not category on the truth meter.)
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That’s the quo; what was the quid?
Every time we hire one of these complete nitwits as store manager, I worry. Our suppliers sometimes do really nice things for us, without explanation, and that makes me very nervous, because that’s just not how things work in this industry. Has anybody done a good and thorough inventory of the supply room lately? Oh, the manager says he did? Great. Did we sign any long-term contracts that the owners might want to know about? What’s that, you say? The manager keeps all that stuff in the safe, and he changed the combination? Great.
Call me paranoid, but I’ve just never bought the argument that Slobodan Milosevic threw in the towel on Kosovo because of our pin-prick bombing campaign; we just weren’t hitting them that hard. The one thing that Slobo would respond to instantly is the Russians, so what did we give them? And when the ChiCom Army decided to make a donation to Clinton-Gore ’96, was that just spontaneous generosity? Don’t think so.
Don’t get me wrong — I think it’s great that we’re getting Davis back. But seriously, I hope all we gave them was a pile of cash, and not something more damaging.
Martin Armstrong, a US political prisoner was also recently freed: http://www.martinarmstrong.org/economic_projections.htm
I’ve seen satan in many a headline – Today it’s name is TIME. You’re reading the first wink and nod approval for Sharia law. They were even ‘kind’ enough to provide an explanation.
Pakistan: How Shari’a Law Helped Set a CIA Contractor Free
Under Pakistani law, “blood money” is a legal means of securing forgiveness from the victims. Under the qasas and diyat laws, derived from Islamic jurisprudence, a court can release an accused person if the victim’s family agrees to a satisfactory cash settlement. The Shari’a-based laws are invoked in the majority of murder cases, Pakistani legal experts say. According to government officials in Punjab, Davis was charged with murder on Wednesday but then acquitted after the families of the two victims said in court that they forgave the CIA contractor and submitted documents attesting to that. Senior Pakistani officials told TIME that each victim’s family received $700,000 in compensation – for a total of $1.4 million.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110316/wl_time/08599205933000
I suspect that, had this been a Pakistani and Pakistani crime, the victims’ lives would have been valued at closer to $700 than to $700,000.
But you’re right, Sadie. The tone is definitely “Isn’t sharia wonderful?” The useful idiots ride again, applauding and advancing a system they wouldn’t care to live under for even a microsecond.
The tone is definitely “Isn’t sharia wonderful?”
Which probably explains Secretary of Pants Suit quick denial.
Clinton told reporters in Cairo: “The United States did not pay any compensation.” Asked who did, she replied: “You will have to ask the families.”
She also refused to say if the Pakistani government had paid, saying: “You will have to ask the Pakistani government.”