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From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax on 12 Apr 2010 11:33
On 12/04/2010 11:58, Anne Onime wrote:
>> TV Fortune Teller Faces Beheading in Saudi Arabia
> [snip]
>
> Legal defense: If he really is a sorcerer, he would have
> known NOT to set foot in Saudi Arabia. By traveling to
> SA and allowing himself to be arrested for a capital
> offense he has proved that he is not a sorcerer.
>
> Or maybe he IS a sorcerer, but one so clever that he knew
> in advance that he can fool the SA legal system by using
> the above defense.

Well, speaking as a sorcerer, I certainly won't be going there.

--
Dirk

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From: Mark Thorson on 12 Apr 2010 15:35
The best one wrote:
>
> Under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islam, that's considered
> sorcery -- a crime punishable by death. The Saudi religious police
> burst into Sabat's hotel room in the city of Medina in 2008 and
> arrested him while on a Muslim pilgrimage to the kingdom. A Saudi
> court convicted Sabat last year and sentenced him to death.

I'm all in favor of this. Now, if only we could
figure out a way to get Sylvia Browne to go to
Saudi Arabia.
From: nuny on 12 Apr 2010 16:48
On Apr 11, 3:32 pm, The best one <aa...(a)hushmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 3:09 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...(a)hate.spam.net> wrote:
>
> > The best one wrote:
>
> > > TV Fortune Teller Faces Beheading in Saudi Arabia
>
> > [snip]
>
> > How does the fortune teller predict that will turn out?
>
> This fellow's plight has received zero interest in human rights
> circles. A lot of people cannot conceal their wish that Al Gore was in
> his place. 'Predicting the future' (known pejoratively as 'fortune
> telling' in legalese) is universally a criminal code offence.

Now ask yourself why we still allow superstitions to infest all
legal systems' underpinnings.


Mark L. Fergerson
From: David Bernier on 12 Apr 2010 17:32
nuny(a)bid.nes wrote:
> On Apr 11, 3:32 pm, The best one <aa...(a)hushmail.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 11, 3:09 pm, Uncle Al <Uncle...(a)hate.spam.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The best one wrote:
>>>> TV Fortune Teller Faces Beheading in Saudi Arabia
>>> [snip]
>>> How does the fortune teller predict that will turn out?
>> This fellow's plight has received zero interest in human rights
>> circles. A lot of people cannot conceal their wish that Al Gore was in
>> his place. 'Predicting the future' (known pejoratively as 'fortune
>> telling' in legalese) is universally a criminal code offence.
>
> Now ask yourself why we still allow superstitions to infest all
> legal systems' underpinnings.
>

Maybe legitimacy needs to come from a higher authority ...
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