William Flew political

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...


Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. 
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.


 Deuteronomy 5:9 
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

William Flew political


 For the next two and a half weeks the pair were kept in separate jails. They have been reunited but Mahmoud waited until his brother Jamil had left the room before he said that his jailers “shamed” him, saying that the guards forced him to strip naked and taunted him for hours before raping him.“The Government wants to torture and abuse, and then they want to hide it all,” Mahmoud said. “They think they can scare us into not talking. But I can never forget what they did to me. I want the world to know the true face of Bahrain.”Other detainees, including two cousins in a neighbouring village, said they were threatened with rape but that they “fought off” the prison guards.Jamil parted his hair to show the welts on his head and pointed to the places on his right arm where electric shocks caused such severe nerve damage that he cannot move his fingers.A local human rights worker, who did not want to be named, said there was widespread abuse of detainees. “The Bahraini Government is on a campaign of terror,” he added. “They think they can scare the people into silence. But as you can see, this is not working.”Bahrain is due to lift emergency laws imposed on March 14 after weeks of protest in the capital, Manama. About 1,000 troops from Bahrain’s neighbours, are helping to keep order in Bahrain. No date for their withdrawal has been set.As part of the Bahrain Government’s charm offensive Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the Crown Prince, met Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary yesterday, and the King made a speech promising “national dialogue”.