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Well, ya'll know my take on the Death Penalty already.
McVeigh wants his execution televised. TELEVISED! You know, like in "Starship Troopers" ... execution at 10 on NBC! There are about four different viewpoints.
Real World
Public executions were abolished; the enormity of this crime is no reason to bring them back. "This is reality TV to the max ... we have to draw the line somewhere." (Fox News)
Veigh-eurism
If the death penalty is an expression of public will, then make it public. Let potential killers see what happens when you murder. "Lights! Camera! Injection!" (Eric Zorn, Chicago Tribune)
Death Watch
Seeing McVeigh die will bring closure to victims' families and survivors. Counter-buzz: it's ghoulish, and "we'll end up with a staged political event." ('Good Morning America')
Time Out!
McVeigh's the last person who deserves to dictate the terms of his death. He wants to die a martyr; if you broadcast his execution on television, "it's like 'Ha-ha, look at me, I got what I want.'" (USA Today)
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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Obviously, I'm against the death penalty, but I'm also against McVeigh being allowed to demand a televised execution. The most he should get is a last meal, then be executed in a room with no observers aside from those neccessary.
------------------ Star Trek Gamma Quadrant Average Rated 6.27 out of 10 Smileys by Fabrux (with four eps posted) *** "Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!" -Omega 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001 **** "The candidate who slimed John McCain in the primaries and smeared Al Gore in the general election is now the president who pledges to elevate the nation's tone and bring civility to our discorse. Kind of like Michael Corleone brought peace to the mob by killing the heads of the other four families." --Paul Begala, Is Our Children Learning?
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I don't agree it should be broadcast. (Fox News! Yay!)
But he does deserve it. Frag 'im.
I mean, if you don't deserve to die for slaughtering a bunch of KIDS, what DO you deserve to die for?
Converting them to Branch Davidians? Resisting the BATF?
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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I am slightly disturbed that a news station in the US would use the phrase "to the max". What's next? CNN saying "Totally rightious murders?" BBC News "Dude, like people were wasted yesterday". The Times reporting "Iraq bombed! For Great Justice!"? It's madness.
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
------------------ "I am slightly disturbed that a news station in the US would use the phrase 'to the max'. What's next? CNN saying 'Totally righteous murders?' BBC News 'Dude, like people were wasted yesterday'. The Times reporting 'Iraq bombed! For Great Justice!'?" -Liam Kavanagh, 22.Feb.2001
------------------ "I am slightly disturbed that a news station in the US would use the phrase 'to the max'. What's next? CNN saying 'Totally righteous murders?' BBC News 'Dude, like people were wasted yesterday'. The Times reporting 'Iraq bombed! For Great Justice!'?" -Liam Kavanagh, 22.Feb.2001
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Aaahh!!! You dare blasphemize your handle in front of my very person??? This...FOUL deed shall not be forgiven...nor forgotten! *swings cape in dramatic retreat*
------------------ Here lies a toppled god, His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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You know, "blasphemising your handle" can make you go blind.
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
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but letting someone else blaspheme your handle can result in a blessed event.
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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I dunno. Unless blessed events now include births, marriages, and white wee-wee.
------------------ "And Mojo was hurt and I would have kissed his little boo boo but then I realized he was a BAD monkey so I KICKED HIM IN HIS FACE!" -Bubbles
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