Indonesia executes six drug convicts, five of them foreigners

Indonesia executes six drug convicts, five of them foreigners
Widodo has pledged to bring reform to Indonesia

Ban appeals to Indonesia to stop death row executions

Ban appeals to Indonesia to stop death row executions
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pleaded to Indonesia to stop the execution of prisoners on death row for drug crimes. AFP PHOTO

Pope: 'Death penalty represents failure' – no 'humane' way to kill a person

Pope: 'Death penalty represents failure' – no 'humane' way to kill a person
The pope wrote that the principle of legitimate personal defense isn’t adequate justification to execute someone. Photograph: Zuma/Rex

Obama becomes first president to visit US prison (US Justice Systems / Human Rights)

Obama becomes first president to visit US prison   (US Justice Systems / Human Rights)
US President Barack Obama speaks as he tours the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, July 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

US Death Penalty (Justice Systems / Human Rights)

US Death Penalty (Justice Systems / Human Rights)
Woman who spent 23 years on US death row cleared (Photo: dpa)



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"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Oz Mufti Asks Jokowi to Have Mercy on ‘Bali Nine’ Convicts

Ibrahim Abu Mohamed: Forgiveness lies at the heart of Islam for those who repent

Jakarta Globe, Mar 11, 2015

Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifudin, right, shakes hands with
 Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, the grand mufti of Australia, in Jakarta on Wednesday.
(AFP Photo/Adek Berry)

Jakarta. With an appeal to the spirit of “mercy and forgiveness” that “lies at the heart of Islam for those who repent and have reformed their ways,” Australia’s top Muslim leader on Wednesday called on President Joko Widodo to spare the lives of two Australian drug convicts on death row.

“On behalf of the Islamic community of Australia, we plead, with respect and humility, for mercy for the lives of two young Australian men,” Ibrahim Abu Mohamed, the grand mufti of Australia, said in a statement sent to media on Wednesday.

The grand mufti led a delegation of Islamic clerics, including two Australia-based sheikhs with an Indonesian background, that met with Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin in Jakarta on Wednesday.

“I emphasize we are here on behalf of the Islamic community of Australia, a nongovernment initiative independent of the Australian government,” Abu Mohamed said in the statement.

Indonesia’s ties with its southern neighbor are under increasing pressure over the pending execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who were sentenced to death in 2006 after they were caught trying to smuggle heroin through Bali.

The Australian government has called on Joko to grant the men clemency, but to no avail.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recent reference to his nation’s generosity in helping Indonesia recover from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and a subsequent threat by a top Indonesian minister to unleash a “human tsunami” of asylum seekers have further escalated the diplomatic conflict.

Indonesia has long been used as a stepping stone by asylum seekers trying to reach Australia from countries like Afghanistan.

“We as Islamic leaders, respect the position of the Indonesian government in its firm pursuit of the drug scourge in Indonesia. We offer no criticism of the justice system in recent cases,” the mufti’s statement said.

“However, we note that mercy and forgiveness lies at the heart of Islam for those who repent and have reformed their ways. We urge that the heritage of mercy in our religion is fully and deeply considered in the application of state law.”

The two Australians are said to have turned their lives around during their lengthy incarceration, but Joko and his administration maintain that the men cannot be granted clemency because Indonesia is facing a drug emergency.

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