Are we the Good Guys or the Bad guys?

Question

Take an honest look at how the US justice system and treatment of people is set up, and many other Western countries.
Then take an honest look at the way NKoreans, Iran, etc. treat their common man and their laws.
Who is really the bad guy?

Answer 1

Looks like you need a lesson in ISLAMIC JUSTICE:

http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/20.htm
http://www.truthnet.org/islam/Islamic-Justice/index.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20051224/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_honor_killings_1

Like your freedom of speech?

"We Will Cut Off Tongues of Those Who Try to Distort Islam With Reform and Progress"-Saudi Interior Minister;Prince Nayef bin Abd Al-'Aziz

The following are excerpts from his speech which aired on Al-Majd TV on September 25, 2006.

TO VIEW THIS CLIP, VISIT: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1283.

and last but not least:

Saudi Arabia: Court Orders Eye to Be Gouged Out
Torture Sentence for Indian Migrant Worker Follows Clash With Saudi Citizen

(New York, December 9, 2005) – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia should take urgent steps to ensure that a court sentence to gouge out a migrant worker's eye is not carried out, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Greater Shari`a Court of Dammam sentenced Puthan Veettil `Abd ul-Latif Noushad, an Indian citizen, to be punished by having his right eye gouged out in retribution for his role in a brawl in April 2003 in which a Saudi citizen was injured. A court of appeal in Riyadh has reportedly merely asked whether the Saudi man would accept monetary compensation instead.

"This literal eye-for-an-eye sentence is torture masquerading as justice," said Joe Stork, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East division. "King Abdullah must prevent the imposition of corporal punishment in violation of the country's obligations under international law."

Saudi Arabia acceded to the Convention against Torture in 1997. However, Noushad’s case is the third known instance over the past year in which a Saudi court has issued a sentence of eye-gouging, Human Rights Watch said. Saudi law allows for maiming, including the severing of limbs and severe flogging, as judicial punishments.

The injured Saudi man, Nayif al-`Utaibi, has so far insisted that the sentence be carried out, refusing to pardon Noushad or accept monetary compensation. Noushad's Saudi employer, Abu Muhammad al-`Umri, has reportedly offered to pay over $25,000 in compensation. He told Human Rights Watch that he had no faith that the appeals court would overturn the verdict, and that only a pardon could save Noushad's eye unless the plaintiff decides to accept compensation.

Noushad worked at a shop near a gas station outside Dammam. One witness to the altercation between the two men told Human Rights Watch that on the morning of April 1, 2003, Noushad told `Utaibi that he would not be able to obtain a refund once he used the jumper cable he had just purchased. When `Utaibi demanded a refund after using the cable, Noushad advised him to speak to the shop owner, who was not there at the time. The witness said `Utaibi replied heatedly that he could not wait that long and lunged at Noushad. In the course of the ensuing struggle, Noushad struck `Utaibi on the head with the cable, hitting his eye. Bystanders called the police, who arrested Noushad on `Utaibi's testimony, and called an ambulance for `Utaibi.

During the trial, Noushad claimed that he was acting in self-defense and did not intend to injure `Utaibi, according to acquaintances of Noushad who are familiar with the proceedings. The witness, also a worker from India, told Human Rights Watch that the court refused to admit his testimony backing up Noushad's account.

The judge reportedly said that non-Saudis were barred from testifying in cases involving Saudis. Noushad’s Saudi employer confirmed that the judge did not fully take into account the circumstances of the brawl. Noushad did not have a lawyer
during trial, but his Saudi sponsor retained legal representation for the appeals phase.

"The court's verdict virtually allows Saudi citizens to assault migrant workers with impunity," Stork said.

News of the verdict has caused a political uproar in India. On December 6, the day after the verdict was made public, the chief minister of Kerala state, Oommen Chandy, promised to raise the case with Saudi authorities. The Indian embassy in Riyadh has announced it will appeal to King Abdullah for clemency.

On September 16, 2004, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported that a court in Tabuk ordered the right eye of Muhammad `Ayid Sulaiman al-Fadili al-Balawi to be gouged out, but gave him the option of paying compensation within one year. In 2001, Balawi had intervened when he saw youths pelting his brother with stones. In response, he also threw stones, hitting one youth in the eye and causing him to lose vision in one eye. Balawi helped carry the youth to the hospital. Two months before the sentence was to be carried out, he had managed to collect only 550,000 Saudi riyals (US$147,000) of the 1.4 million riyals (US$373,000) demanded by the victim. Human Rights Watch was unable to verify whether the sentence had been carried out.

Another Saudi newspaper, ArabNews, reported on December 6 that a court had recently sentenced an Egyptian man in Saudi Arabia to having his eye gouged out after he allegedly threw acid in the face of another man, who subsequently lost his eyesight.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are the only known countries that consider eye-gouging a legitimate judicial punishment. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, has stated that "any form of corporal punishment is contrary to the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."

Answer 2

The U.S is the bad guy, but they think they better than everyone else who doesn't rule their country like they do is bad.Just to let you know every country or government have a set of group or community that they manipulate and hold down for poverty, and these comunities have less opportunity in life, so no one is worst than the other just diferent view. And those other country at least they have cultures or traditions and more morales than in the U.S, at least most of them do not pretend or forget God exist.

Answer 3

Well, we think by bringing our system of government to others that we are doing the right thing. We the Americans are always right in our minds. So this makes us good right? Arent we the ones who have more killings in schools and random acts of violent crime in our nation than 90% of other countries? Doesnt matter, we are still the good guys. Our goverment leads us to believe everything is as they say it is, and most Americans accept the news as fact. Still, we are always the good guys. Get my point yet?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well Jane...

Taking into consideration your modus operandi, I am going to assume you think we are the bad guys.

I am going to propose that you go to North Korea and Iran. Spend a year there and come back (if you are still alive) and report your findings.

Answer 6

To honestly answer your question you have to see this video. It shows how serious the world situation is. We might have our faults but this video shows that if we don't take a stand soon, our decisions will be made for us.

Answer 7

Most often you post some pretty thought provoking questions. I think you went over the edge with this one. You already know who the good guys are.

Answer 8

They are. We help, we have better rights for our people, And treat others better. They are definitely the bad guys. All they want to do is kill everyone else off who doesn't think like them.

Answer 9

If your a socialist Liberal, were the bad guy. were always the bad guy!
If your a Republican, were the greatest nation on this earth!

Answer 10

We're the good guy that has a bad ruler. a bad stupid dictator

Answer 11

Good point.
North Korea and Iran just slaughter their own people.