200 Lashes

200 lashes and six months in jail is the price a Saudi woman must pay for being raped. In Saudi Arabia it seems, it is illegal for a woman to meet with an unrelated man. This woman did, then she was kidnapped, then gang raped and now, she has been sentenced to get lashed. Wow, you know for a country that is so anti-terrorism we sure choose some strange bedfellows. I guess this isn't really terrorism, it is just ridiculous, archaic and repugnant. You must remember that I am a person that believes in public flogging to straighten criminals out, it is like a super, wicked spanking and it would help society but I also know when it is over board and this is. For the first part, I am in favor of individual freedom. Could you imagine your life if you constantly had your wife, daughters, aunts, and nieces following you around all day because, if they want to go out they have to be with you? You would kill yourself. Then again, I am from a world where woman can do what ever they want, not just where I was raised but my heritage as well. Ah yes I am the blood of those blue eyed demons from the North, a son of Odin, offspring of Askr and Embla. Yes a people that have often been thought of a s evil or barbaric. Yet, hundreds of years before Christ, they were treating woman better than Arabians do now. What fun can that possibly be, to have all those woman in subjection to the men? I take a phrase from 1930's gangster films and say, "I like a girl with moxie", and I do. I also don't mind a girl who likes to be slapped on the hind end in a playful manner but 200 lashes, that is a bit much. If you don't know what a lash is, it is a whip, anywhere from 5 to 9 feet long and can slice skin like a leather knife. There is a good chance that 40 or so lashes would kill a healthy man so imagine what 200 could do to a small woman that wears so many cloths all day that her back has never even been sun burned. I know it is a different country and they have different laws, I also know that I will never visit them. Most of all I think since our government is allied with them and has been for years it shows us all what we they will turn a blind eye to in order to further our countries dependence on foreign oil. I guess my point is, I will take my barbaric bloodline, with our berserks and cold blooded killers over a civilized society like Saudi Arabia any day. i am bugged by this stuff and should be funnier next time.