EU says Texas, Nation Should End Executions
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/politics/63904292.html
In a nationally run story the other day, the EU chastised the US and Texas for continuing to dole out capital punishment for crimes.
The issue with this statement is that the EU is trying to compare apples to oranges. On one hand, you have the EU, which is a conglomerate of European nations, all small and all diametrically different than the US. On the other hand, you have the USA, which is a conglomerate of individual states, whom are diametrically different than European nations. Having the EU condemn America for the use of capital punishment is like America condemning them for the use of the abusive VAT (value added tax) system, on top of their already exorbitant income taxes; which Americans do not do. One simply cannot apply laws and policies to all nations uniformly, as the geographical differences between the continents and nations create societal differences and norms that work for that locale. Americans should be offended by what is alleged; while 34 states use capital punishment, 15 (and Washington DC) do not, so by pigeonholing the entire nation as not ‘progressive’ is offensive to those states that have decided to cease the punishment. What Hafstrom, and many others in Europe, neglects to realize is that we are a federalist nation, made up of 50 states; essentially, we are identical to the EU as a whole and each state is likened to the nations that make up the EU in they each operate autonomously; certainly all the nations in the EU don’t have identical laws, do they? Of course not, because each nation has its own societal norms and cultural expectations.
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