Mugabe at Papal funeral

[Tattila the Hun]

Think about the corruption!

It should be somewhere in the middle...

Of course, if we could get the Forbidden City from the chinese...

[alva]

Being 'part of' would indeed be a nice start.
We started it dammit!!

[Kuciwalker]

Screw the Vatican, Italy should nab him anyway.

[DanS]

It should be noted that the Vatican is no friend of Mugabe. The archbishop in Zimbabwe has gone so far as to suggest a people-power revolution.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Screw the Vatican, Italy should nab him anyway.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Screw the Vatican, Italy should nab him anyway.

Wow... such a fan of national soveriegnty you are . I guess that means EU countries should nab people like Kissinger in the US to have trials for them

[Boris Godunov]

Re: Re: Mugabe at Papal funeral

Originally posted by MikeH
The Pope would have forgiven him any sins and tried to help him mend his ways, like any good Christian would. After all this was the Pope who befriended the guy who shot him.

Love and forgiveness, that's what Christianity is about.

Mugabe has not acknowledged his crimes, much less repented of them. Forgiveness should be given to those who seek it. While he continues to be a murdering totalitarian bastard, he should be shunned. Especially since JP2 didn't think to kindly of him.

It's just very disappointing of the Vatican. Somebody dropped the ball by letting this ******* in. Especially considering the recent "election" in Zimbabwe. The last thing needed as anything that helps give him legitimacy.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Wow... such a fan of national soveriegnty you are . I guess that means EU countries should nab people like Kissinger in the US to have trials for them

I seem to recall that the U.S. has on several occasions actually gone into other countries to seize people. So naturally we shouldn't object to countries seizing wanted people within their own borders.

IIRC, the Vatican doesn't have it's own airport. So I would assume Mugabe would have to travel outside of the Vatican to get his flight. The second his car leaves the Vatican, the Italian authorities should swoop in and nab him.

[Ben Kenobi]

Boris, if we stopped eating with sinners, then we would have to leave this world.

If he showed up uninvited, then yes, the Vatican would feel obligated to try to accomodate him, because it is an opportunity for them to influence him. If they shut the door, then Mugabe's not going to take that as a rebuke.

Secondly, as for the Vatican being part of the EU... /me shudders.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Secondly, as for the Vatican being part of the EU... /me shudders.

We are agreed.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I seem to recall that the U.S. has on several occasions actually gone into other countries to seize people. So naturally we shouldn't object to countries seizing wanted people within their own borders.

But would the US be ok with, say, Mexican police coming into New Mexico and seizing people? I doubt it.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


I seem to recall that the U.S. has on several occasions actually gone into other countries to seize people. So naturally we shouldn't object to countries seizing wanted people within their own borders.

IIRC, the Vatican doesn't have it's own airport. So I would assume Mugabe would have to travel outside of the Vatican to get his flight. The second his car leaves the Vatican, the Italian authorities should swoop in and nab him.

I'm pretty sure the Vatican has a treaty with Italy preventing that.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yeah, the Vatican is not part of the EU.

We should invade, occupy and annex them!

[Shi Huangdi]

Mugabe is a Catholic, however awful his practice is.

[Brent]

It would be nice if Mexico would arrest the illegal immigrants that keep running from them...