Trollheart

Anyway, don't you know that for evil to triumph it is enough for good men to do nothing?

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John Wilkes Booth

yea, i didn't mean for other people to not sign it. everybody else should sign it but me. that's how this is supposed to work.

Isbjørn

I've always wondered how those signature campaigns really work. Are the Saudi-Arabian authorities supposed to see all the signatures and think "Oh, two thousand people disapprove of this, maybe we should rethink the whole thing?" Or is the organization behind the campaign going to take some sort of action when they have a certain amount of signatures? If so, why would they have to wait?

Aight, I signed it. These guys better not distribute my e-mail adress and postal code.

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The Batlord

I remember something like this happening a number of years ago in Afghanistan -- where apostasy also carries the death penalty -- and the person was only saved when world leaders publicly condemned the sentence. Without that kind of high profile international pressure I don't see anything happening, and since nobody wants to say **** to the Saudis with all their oil, I imagine this is probably going to be shuffled off to the side until the problem "goes away".

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Chula Vista

There ya go.

Signed and shared.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Thanks man!

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VEGANGELICA

Thank you, Trollheart, for caring about this Saudi man who was imprisoned and possibly will be condemned to death by the Saudi Arabian government simply because of what he wrote in his Blog.

I've signed the petition to save him and now 1,370,256 people have done so.

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Xurtio

Thank you all for putting yourselves on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's terrorist watch list. We appreciate the convenience you've afforded our clandestine operations intelligence gathering officers.

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Key

This type of stuff is stuff I don't really get involved in for the same reason other people posted. There's a good chance it won't make a difference. If it works, that's great. But I'm always skeptical of this stuff especially if they've already made their decision before the petition was even brought up.

Xurtio

When it comes to stopping the punishment, I don't think it will either. Then again, there's a new king in SA and he might have a chance to set an example. He's aware of the cultural clash between east and west and even appears to desire democracy, but doesn't think it's practical to convert a whole country to democracy (it will come with cultural clashes that will destabilize SA).

Either way though, I think spreading the meme (not the internet meme definition, actual memes as in cultural ideas) of freedom of speech can have a positive effect as it trickles into the young, malleable minds of each generation.

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