If Britain can give out honours then so can I, so instead of OBE'S Knighthoods etc, I am awarding MDE'S.(Members of Donald's Empire)
The following awards go to. (In no particular order.)
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/new-scribbles-from-glynis-smy A great friend through 2009 and a brilliant blogger.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/a-word-to-the-wise Also a great friend and a great help through 2009 with blogs well worth reading.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/journeys-through-time Always writes something of great interest.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/snapping-panda A great friend who I hold in high esteem. Great blog and gives ME great comments.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/user/agnespages A very interest and touching blog, well worth reading.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/writing-and-art A blog with great meaning and a great friend to have.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/the-joys-of-my-splintered-life-in-smalltown This girl tells it as it is, a blog with hidden messages where you can learn a thing or two about life good and bad.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/footsteps Another great friend to have, and writes regularly with very interesting subjects.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/totally-useless This is the blog I read but this girl has many more that you should find interesting, also a great friend.
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/grammology-self-help-central A good blogger and a good friend to have.
Sorry if I missed you out but as the saying goes "THERE IS ALWAYS NEXT YEAR"
Above is a picture of the medal for "The order of the British Empire" I will design mine in the future. ha ha.
It's just my bit of fun to wish you all the very best for 2010 and thank you all for taking the time to read and comment on my blogs, and if you only read it I thank you too.
So Iran wants to give Britain a slap on the face, well I want to give Britain a kick up the backside where their ridiculous laws on human rights and simple justice are concerned.
Below is the story of how Britain tried to beg the release of convicted drug smuggler Akmal Shaikh, and the rightful reaction of the Chinese authorities.
Experts defend China's execution of British drug smuggler www.chinaview.cn 2009-12-29 20:23:18 Print
By Xinhua Writer Miao Xiaojuan
BEIJING, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- China has upheld the independence and integrity of its justice system, as would any other country, in the trial and execution of British drug smuggler Akmal Shaikh, say legal experts, refuting criticisms of China's human rights record and lack of clemency.
Shaikh, a 53-year-old British man, was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
He had been convicted of carrying up to 4,030 grams of heroin at Urumqi International Airport from Dushanbe, capital of Tajikstan, on Sept. 12, 2007.
China's Criminal Law stipulates that the trafficking of more than 50 grams of heroin is punishable by death.
"According to China's Criminal Law, the death sentence given to him is legitimate and it has nothing to do with human rights concerns," said Wang Mingliang, professor of criminal law at Shanghai-based Fudan University.
"Some Western countries also retain capital punishment, and its existence does not equate to a lack of human rights," Wang said.
Xue Jinzhan, professor of criminal law at the East China University of Political Science and Law, also in Shanghai, said the administration of the death penalty related to a country's history, culture and other conditions.
China strictly enforced the law without discrimination in handling the case, Chinese legal experts told Xinhua.
"It's human nature to plead for a criminal who is from the same country or the same family, but judicial independence should be fully respected and everyone should be equal before the law," Xue said.
Wang said it could be understood that British media ran emotional stories and local people reacted with sorrow or anger as Britain did not retain the death penalty.
"But one country should respect judicial independence of another country, without any interference in internal affairs," Wang said.
"Shaikh's case serves as a testimony to China's judicial justice, which deserves full respect from other countries."
Western reports said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned Shaikh's execution in a statement issued on Tuesday and that Brown had even personally spoken to a senior Chinese leader about the case.
"It would have interfered with China's judicial authority if the senior leader had accepted Brown's request. How could a criminal be exempted from the death penalty only because he was British?" Wang said.
Experts said courts in China had the right to decide whether a psychiatric assessment was necessary.
"The court, based on available evidence, decided not to do the assessment, and it was strictly in line with the law," Wang said.
China's Supreme People's Court on Tuesday issued a statement, saying it had reviewed and approved the death sentence against Akmal Shaikh and there was no reason to cast doubt on Shaikh's mental state.
According to the court, the British embassy in China and a British organization had proposed a psychiatric examination on Shaikh, but the documents they provided could not prove he had mental disorder nor did members of his family have history of mental illness.
Shaikh himself had not provided materials regarding a mental illness. His legal rights and legitimate treatment had been fully granted in custody and trial, the statement said.
Shaikh was sentenced to death in the first instance by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi on Oct. 29, 2008, and his final verdict came in October this year after two failed appeals.
Drug-related crimes had been recognized as serious criminal offences in most countries of the world, and China demanded severe punishment for such crimes, the statement said.
In June, eight people convicted of drug production and trafficking were executed in China. Another two men convicted of heading a gang that smuggled drugs from Myanmar into China were executed in May.
Courts across China handled 14,282 drug-related cases from January to May, up 12 percent over the same period last year. In these cases, 6,379 people were convicted and received severe penalties ranging from five years in jail to a death sentence.
Britain has a cheek to expect other countries to heed their wishes when it come to releasing British prisoners back into the care of our country's judicial system when they know full well that there is no justice in this country.
The lack of justice in Britain has made us a laughing stock in the eyes of most other countries, and instead of begging for the release of guilty Britons locked up in prisons throughout the world, and playing into the hands of criminals, we should be taking a leaf out of the book that the likes of China acts from and punish crime.
It is great to find at least one country who does not bow down to the whims of Britain, and rather go with the saying "when in Rome do as the Romans do."
There is a lesson for us to be learned here which is, tighten our laws, let them be adhered to by any asylum seekers or immigrants who wish to stay here, and not allow ourselves to be cajoled into changing our laws and our way of life to suit them.
When we go abroad we should abide by the laws and traditions of the country we have chosen to stay, or holiday in, and not expect any favours if we break any of their rules.
Why should we be so conceited, as to expect that anyone from Britain who breaks the laws of the country they are in get special treatment, is it because we are stupid enough to release murderers like Megrahi, plus the rapists and criminals of our own who are set free to kill and rape again?
Its time this country sat up and took notice of the multitude of fed up victims who constantly leave our courts disgusted at the lenient sentences handed out to the vermin who ruin their lives, and start acting for THEIR human rights instead of the criminals, or it will be more than a slap in the face from Iran, or a kick up the backside from me they will need to worry about.
The Royal Bank of Scotland board of directors are threatening to quit if they are not allowed to set their ridiculous bonuses, as they are under the illusion that they have been successful enough to earn millions of pounds over and above the high wages they already earn. I doubt very much if the taxpayers will agree with them, because as we all know they still owe us billions of pounds, and until that is paid back in full they cannot claim success.
If anyone is entitled to bonuses this year it's the taxpayers of whom without THEM the banks would not exist.
Let the board of directors quit, and forfeit their ludicrous pensions plus any bonus they might be entitled to, and see if they will continue with their threat, because there are plenty people out there who have been sacked from the banking world this year who are just as, or even more capable of running the banking system, and would be only too eager to take the jobs vacated by these chancers, possibly for less money too.
If the treasury allow themselves to be conned by the directors then they are only confirming how useless this government has become, and they should end up in the scrapheap along with the bank directors who's greed and incapability's led to this recession.
If bonuses must be paid ever again they should be within a sensible limit, and not be allowed to rise to the extortionate levels of the past.
Author based in Scotland.
After years spent at sea as a commercial fisherman I witnessed spectacular sights in the night sky while waiting for daylight to break.
After I retired I decided to write on the subject.
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