But I will have no compunction at shooting you myself for your last remark.

Griesa, for his part, showed no compunction about upending a financial order in which market based exchanges of old bonds for new ones are used to restructure the debts of countries unable to pay. By making it impossible for sovereigns to restructure, he effectively rendered them unable to borrow in the United States.

The challenge facing his country was to find proportionate and morally acceptable measures to protect its citizens against such terrorist organizations, which had no respect for life or the law, saw the killing of women and children as a victory and had no compunction about turning both Israeli and Palestinian civilian areas into combat zones.

However, while Pakistan's progressives oppose militarism and violence in principle, religious fundamentalists have no compunction in resorting to violence to reinforce their point of view thus posing a threat not just to General Musharraf, who has survived at least two assassination attempts, but also to human rights workers. Indeed, the prominent feminist lawyer Asma Jahangir has 24 hour armed guards.

The Special Rapporteur s reports have focused on the fact that these companies view security as just another commodity, subject to the laws of the market, and have no compunction about replacing the State in its security and law and order functions, in exchange for juicy contracts and a share in economic, mining and petroleum operations and a variety of services in the hiring country.