April 19, 2010

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:25:45 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Today is the 235th anniversary of the shot heard round the world. It's also the 17th anniversary of the premeditated murder by federal agents of 82 people at Waco, Texas, 22 of them innocent helpless little children. So it's time once again for me to link to my essay about the travesty, Waco Justice. I'm still waiting for Waco Justice. There's no statue of limitations on murder.

Once we manage to bring them to trial and convict a good number, say one or two hundred, we've got to come up with a suitable method of execution. No needle in the arm in the privacy of a penitentiary for these mass murderers. It's gotta be good.

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So what's the normal way to execute war criminals? A firing squad of course. And we can very easily turn it into a fund raiser for the survivors and family of the victims. Sell $100 raffle tickets to choose the riflemen and riflewomen who off the scum. I'd pay that in an instant for a chance to put a bullet into one of these baby killers. I'll bet there are at least 100,000 others who would join in. A cool $10 million. Give each shooter an army surplus rifle with an engraved label commemorating the festivities ("This weapon was used to execute Janet Reno on April 19, 2003"), and one cartridge to fire on the joyous day. Imagine showing your grandchildren one of these.

It'll be quite a party. Let's say we convict 100 mass murderers. At 5 shooters apiece, this makes 500 happy winners. The other raffle ticket holders gain admission to watch the affair live, after a second drawing to reduce their number to the stadium's capacity. At least one of the TV networks will want to broadcast it. Think of the advertising revenue! Maybe we can get the Goodyear blimp. Line up the shooters 10 wide and 50 deep on the field. Let the fascists fall two-by-two to save time. With some practice we can probably get it down to three minutes for each ready-aim-fire; two-and-a-half hours of play. Ted Nugent at half time?

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