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miriam_eIn case you thought embarrassing a medieval country over its inhuman laws would never achieve anything:
http://action.amnesty.org.au/svaw/comments/good_news_saudi_rape_survivor_pardoned_by_king/
It is a beginning. Every little bit works to free things up more. Hopefully they will join us in the 20th Century before we end up destroying the planet. Yes, I intentionally said "20th Century" instead of "21st Century" because we here in the West still have a heck of a lot of ground to make up too. As far as I'm concerned, as we near 2010 we still haven't entered the 21st Century yet. We are barely out of the 1950s... and in some of us are still living in the 1940s. (I was told some time back that I was a communist for suggesting that we needed more democracy in society. Real "reds under the beds" stuff, that.)
http://action.amnesty.org.au/svaw/comments/good_news_saudi_rape_survivor_pardoned_by_king/
It is a beginning. Every little bit works to free things up more. Hopefully they will join us in the 20th Century before we end up destroying the planet. Yes, I intentionally said "20th Century" instead of "21st Century" because we here in the West still have a heck of a lot of ground to make up too. As far as I'm concerned, as we near 2010 we still haven't entered the 21st Century yet. We are barely out of the 1950s... and in some of us are still living in the 1940s. (I was told some time back that I was a communist for suggesting that we needed more democracy in society. Real "reds under the beds" stuff, that.)