Savage execution in Hanoi

After reading the front page story - " Execution in

    Hanoi has Canada-Vietnam relations in disarray - "  I could

    at least wink at Senator John McCain's gut reaction remark

    that " the wrong guys won the war ! " .

             Even today old fashioned Stalinist propaganda asserts

    that the death penalty is a barbaric tool of capitalism . Its

    purpose being to terrorize the bolder elements of the oppressed

    working class.

               I see no "  Marxist humanism " in the execution

    of 43 year old Canadian seamstress Nguyen Thi Hiep.  Her

    crime of drug smuggling - or was she in fact innocent ? -

    did not merit being shot by a firing squad while staring

    despondently  down into her own grave .

           Shame on Vietnam!  What odious communist cockroaches

    still rule over there !