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oh noah he didn'tEARLIER THIS MORNING we brought you video footage of a Russell Crowe red carpet interview that made you pull a collective cringe muscle.
Russell Crowe was talking to Evoke.ie on the red carpet at Noah’s Dublin premiere when a little question about rugby caused a bit of tension.
The reporter asked Crowe whether his team would play the Irish squad and he was quick to tell her she was confused about rugby union and rugby league.
The story made waves on social media this morning and Crowe waded right into the middle of it with one rather blunt tweet.
The reporter in question wasn’t long responding either.
And Mr Crowe took the time to clarify his position.
The claws are out.
There is a certain irony in Amnesty International opposing the death penalty while simultaneously advocating for abortion.
@Tony Riordan: There really isn’t.
@Tricia G: aaaand there you are. Only took you 4mins not bad
@Tony Riordan: rubbish!
@Tony Riordan: Have to say i agree with your comment, its much the same as the minister for children supporting abortion
@Tricia G: the only difference is the victims. Death penalty targets criminals, abortion targets innocent babies.
@Tony Riordan: Good point. They have hypocrisy to an art form. But like a majority of pro choice advocates they have conveniently we sensitized themselves to the unborn needs, they advocate human rights but like many of those they have campaigned against they have assumed the pretentious right of determining what is human and what is not.
@Tony Riordan: the pregnant is withdrawing her body as life support. How is that remotely similar to the death penalty?
@Tony Riordan: zygote, then foetus, then baby. So, if we’re discussing abortion, it would be an innocent zygote or innocent foetus.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu: Very well put!
@FrustratedASDMum: human
@FrustratedASDMum: AS some else said ,when you find out your pregnant ,do you tell your partner ,family ,friends that your having a baby or a fetus?
@Elvis King: dehumanizing it makes it easier.
@FrustratedASDMum: A fervent pro-abortion politician told Sean O’Rourke in a radio interview that the unborn was a “child”.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu: Can she do that while she’s breastfeeding?
@Lily: I know ,just go to show they know its wrong
@Tony Riordan: doesnt talk away from the fact that every hypocrite on this thread would be on thecboat/plane to England if it were their daughter raped and pregnant and not wanting to carry it through. Or would you try and talk her out of it to appease your sky fairy?
@Tony Riordan: You’re typeing thru your back entrance.
@Tricia G: sorry tricia my original comment was meant at OP (Tony) , hence completely changing the context of my comment… :/
@Tony Riordan: “abortion targets innocent babies” -fooking trolling by that guy is seriously sh!te.
@GerryCummins: No ‘sky fairies as you so ignorantly put it, but to follow one’s moral fortitude(that’s not a band name just in case you’re reaching for the dictionary)
@Ixion99: With Dr sensitized terminology like that you might need to start looking for your moral compass before you understand that point of view.
Wonder what connection would be between Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan?
@Maurice Bourke: In fairness China and the US are well up there too. The death penalty is an atrocious idea that has sadly gained traction in many parts of the world, even supposedly industrialised/sophisticated nations.
@ihcalaM: Why should someone who commits horrible violent acts be allowed to live on, unlike their victims?
@Maurice Bourke: Do them countrys suprise you?
@Cameron O’Toole: Because the state, representing the people, should not put itself on the same moral level as the murderers through premeditated killing of defenceless prisoners.
@Maurice Bourke: the connection is the people executed won’t commit anymore crimes. Our criminals just keep raping and assaulting.
@Brendan O’Brien: what do we do to animals that kill and can’t be rehabilitated ? Yes we euthanize them down for the greater good.
@Cameron O’Toole: because far too many innocent people are put to death. Also, some countries use it as a method of control
@Mumpsimus: we are not talking about animals here
@Mumpsimus: You seem enthusiastic. Would you willingly take part in the killing process?
@ihcalaM: Wait a mo, the I.R.A carried out many, many executions (murders) in this country and apparently the were all perfectly justified!!
@Brendan O’Brien: I do not know who is worse, the pro-life or the pro-choice people. The referendum gives special provision to one section of society to take away life which is effectively capital punishment for the crime of inconvenience but the same people won’t extend it to all society where the danger in life being taken away (murder) is not met with capital punishment.
Premeditated murder is simply the willful taking away of life so applying the willful taking away of life in the womb through State sanction is meant to serve as a legal blindspot based on entitlement.
The pro-choice crowd are what they are but the pro-life people present such weak opposition as they are comfortable with pro-life vs pro-choice in medical terms instead of legal entitlements.
@Ixion99: Rubbish.
If you take away the human rights of alleged killers, you’re taking away the human rights of so many wrongly imprisoned for these horrible crimes.
Just remind yourself that you’re OK with a system where the state could convict you for a capital offence based on faulty evidence, and that your system would mean that your own human rights were then forfeited.
The death penalty is 100% wrong and always will be because of the frightening number of innocent people who are wrongly executed and put on death row.
@Maurice Bourke: Em???
Where do the Kinehan Cartel rank on the list?
I hope whoever ordered these death sentences recognised the need for gender equality and at least as many women and minorities were offered the chance to be executed as white men.
@George Costanza: Of the thousand or so, I doubt that few were ‘white men’. The two in Belarus would probably be an exception.
@Earth Traveller: Wait! Are you saying White people cannot be Chinese, Iranian, Pakistani, Saudi Arabia etc?
@Sheldon: I think in regressive speak , that would be called “appropriation” .
The numbers don’t include Islamic State sponsored executions worldwide.
@Carnac: That’s kind of obvious. Terrorist groups are not states.
@Brendan O’Brien: Yes, they are so-called states.
@Brendan O’Brien: No, they’re wannabe states!
It’s “The Gambia,” not “Gambia.”
A right rogues gallery, if ever there was one.
Meanwhile, in the open house of Western Europe…
And these are just the legally sanctioned executions, we can add the vigilante and extremist executions/murders/gang attacks in countries like India and Indonesia, Tanzania etc. to the death toll list…
We should use the Singapore model
Can we introduce this to deal with bicycle thieves?
There will be plenty of executions in Ireland if the abortionists get their way.
@Eric De Red: execution ;the carrying out of a sentence of death on a condemned person.
You identify an embryo as a person, but in actual fact, it is not. It is not a person.It is an embryo.
Question for you ;How many persons are currently living in Ireland ?
Good point. Perfecting hypocrisy to an art form
If we had the death penalty here it would save many lives and all the tax money spent on all these murderers, paedophiles, psychos, and rapists in the prison system. Justice isn’t done unless it’s life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.
@Ireland Needs God: No it wouldn’t. The US has the death penalty, it doesn’t stop the huge numbers of homicides there. The cost of putting a prisoner to death is actually higher than the cost of keeping them behind bars for the rest of their lives. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/files/pdf/Report-of-the-OK-Death-Penalty-Review-April-2017-a1b.pdf And then there is the 4% of people in the US who are found to be innocent after they’ve been put to death. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-study-4-percent-defendants-innocent There is absolutely no justification for state murder of a human and that is what the death penalty is.
@Richard Keogh: Great post.
@Ireland Needs God: True enough. Imagine if they had just put a bullet in the skull of each of the Birmingham Six et al? All that money in trials and inquiries and TV time etc. that would have been saved. I’m sure God would agree with you on that one.
@Richard Keogh: These statistics may show some flaws in the American system of capital punishment, but not the concept of capital punishment itself.
@Jim Hartnett: What I would advocate for is that the death penalty should be carried out only in situations where someone’s guilt is beyond reasonable doubt.
Shocking statistic presented in that article
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