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'THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS'

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Le Nouvel Observateur, France

Troy Davis Execution a 'Stain' on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize

 

"It's an appalling paradox: In the final sordid analysis, Tehran's ayatollahs and other turban-wearers, fundamentalists though they may be, have proven less fanatical than the suit-and-tie wearing judges of Georgia. … it is the institution of the Nobel Peace Prize itself that has been shattered through the cowardice of Barack Obama, whose true concerns are manifestly more electoral than humanitarian."

 

By Daniel Salvatore Schiffer

                                                 

 

Translated By Mary Kenney

 

September 22, 2011

 

France - Le Nouvel Observateur - Original Article (French)

Amnesty International activists support Troy Davis in front of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Sept 16, during a protest to denounce the death penalty in America.

 

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Never again, until it has abolished the odious and antiquated death penalty, may America presume to give lessons on democracy to the world, and certainly not in the name of human rights!

 

Because this America, by executing Troy Davis in cold blood, has demonstrated to the entire world that it has nothing but scorn and indifference for the millions of men and women who have raised a hue and cry for somewhat more humane and compassionate justice. Simply put, just a little more "fairness" toward an innocent man.

 

Yes: there is now an indelible stain in the terrified eyes of true democrats to see that America, far from being the great modern nation that it claims to be, is no better under the circumstances than countries that, in matters of justice, impose the most barbaric and medieval methods such as stoning or hanging - practices that are most commonly applied where the sinister and obscurantist "Sharia law" of antiquity prevails.

 

Furthermore: it is apparently better to be sentenced to death in Iran where, as in the case of Sakineh Ashtiani, a person's skin can be saved when international public opinion pleads for mercy with that nation's politico-religious authorities; than in the United States, where as in Troy's case, when this same global public pleads with American politico-judicial authorities, no one can be rescued.

 

It's an appalling paradox: In the final sordid analysis, Tehran's ayatollahs and other turban-wearers, fundamentalists though they may be, have proven less fanatical than the suit-and-tie wearing judges of Georgia.

 

As for Barack Obama, forget about it: beyond his lack of political courage and intellectual foresight, his deafening silence on the painful Troy Davis matter is unworthy of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him by the Oslo committee, which was granted him a little too quickly solely on the flimsy basis of his beautiful but only theoretical speeches. 

 

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So the assassination of Troy Davis reveals much more that is negative than a simple stain on American justice: it is the institution of the Nobel Peace Prize itself, its profound meaning and philosophical significance, that have been shattered through the cowardice of Barack Obama, whose true concerns are manifestly more electoral than humanitarian.

 

Do I exaggerate? Then consider this even more incomprehensible declaration by this same Nobel Peace Prize winner while addressing the Palestinian Authority President Abbas, just raised on this fatal September 21, 2011: the implacable threat to veto Abbas' desire to see his country finally officially recognized by the United Nations. 

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Yes: On the one hand, Obama's America has obstinately refused to pardon Troy Davis, and on the other, has refused to recognize the state of Palestine. It was a double appointment with history missed!

 

*Daniel Salvatore Schiffer is a philosopher, writer and author of The Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas (PUF) and Critique of Pure Lack of Reason (Bourin Editor).

 

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[Posted by WORLDMEETS.US, Sept 30, 6:19pm]

 







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