death penalty hypocrite

Hypocrisy is the act of condemning another person, where the stated basis for the criticism is the breach of a rule which also applies to the critic and of which the critic is in breach to a similar or greater extent. A person engaged in hypocrisy is called a hypocrite. … [Wikipedia]

Howard stands by death penalty for terrorists
… Mr Howard has reiterated that he will not oppose the death penalty when it involves terrorists.
Speaking on Southern Cross Radio, Mr Howard was asked about the possibility that the Bali bombers will not be executed.
“I think that would be very, very bad, I accept that many people will think it is inconsistent of me to say and I’ve acknowledged this before… I personally don’t support capital punishment in Australia,” he said. … [ABC News]

Let’s see, opposing the death penalty at home but supporting the execution of the Bali bombers – that translates as ‘I don’t support the death penalty against Australians, but I support it against people who threaten us’. Yes, that is Hypocrisy.

Howard seems to have Core and Non Core principles.

Let Bali bombers die, says Kevin Rudd
… LABOR leader Kevin Rudd has scolded a senior member of his team for an anti-death penalty speech, saying a Labor Government would never attempt to overturn the death penalty for a convicted terrorist. … [news.com.au]

WTF!

Mr Rudd stressed that a Labor government would never attempt to have the death penalty overturned against anyone convicted of terrorism. … SBS World News

This shows a dramatic shift in the ALP human rights standards.

October 10th (today) is World Day against the Death Penalty which makes McClelland’s timing entirely appropriate.

You are either against the death penalty or for it, you cannot be a “little bit pregnant”. Ignore your party policy, weaken your parties stance and trade in hypocrisy … it seems that we must settle for hypocrites for both of our candidates for PM Rudd should have supported McClelland’s statement.

This was a test of ethical integrity and principle; Rudd has failed the test.

Patch Tuesday Wednesday (OCT-2007)

Welcome to Black Tuesday for October 2007. We have 4xCritical, 2xImportant patches for our entertainment, three of which are detected via Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer. A restart will be required.

Out of six patches this month, four patches patched vulnerabilities that were able to be exploited over the Internet to execute arbitrary code. [5]

Bulletin	KB number	Description	Severity	Impact	Software
MS07-055	923810	Vulnerability in Kodak Image Viewer Could Allow Remote Code Execution	Remote Code Execution	Critical	Windows – Kodak image viewer
MS07-056	941202	Security Update for Outlook Express and Windows Mail	Remote Code Execution	Critical	Windows, Outlook Express, Windows Mail
MS07-057	939653	Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer	Remote Code Execution	Critical	Windows Internet Explorer
MS07-058	933729	Vulnerability in RPC Could Allow Denial of Service	Denial of Service	Important	Windows RPC
MS07-059	942017	Vulnerability in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Could Result in Elevation of Privilege Within the SharePoint Site	Elevation of Privilege	Important	MS SharePoint
MS07-060	942695	Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution	Remote Code Execution	Critical	MS Word

None of these vulnerabilities resolved the two current Microsoft denial-of-service zero-day vulnerabilities. [5]

You might notice that we are shipping 6, not 7, bulletins this month, as we had originally stated in our ANS last Thursday. As previously communicated, the ANS is always subject to change. We decided to remove one of the updates from the release schedule due to a quality control issue, so we can resolve that issue prior to releasing the update to customers. [6]

PATCH NOW:
MS07-055, MS07-056, MS07-057, MS07-060

LINKS:
[1] Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for October 2007 [MS]
[2.] October Black Tuesday overview [SANS]
[3.] Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for October 2007 [MS]
[4.] Microsoft security updates for October 2007 [MS]
[5.] Microsoft Patch Disclosure -October 2007 [eEye]
[6.] October 2007 Monthly Release [MS Security Response Center Blog]