Godstud wrote:It was never in reference to Epstein's suicide(Aug 10), and in fact, was said well before such a thing happened(July 9 was when I posted it).
So you don't think Epstein was guilty?
Oh Godstud. You crack me up. What did you think was going to happen to Epstein in jail with him having the goods on so many high level people?
At least Ann Coulter called it, and one commenter got the surveillance malfunction predicted too.
I doubt Clinton or Prince Andrew will be held accountable (hung, as you put it so delicately).
Drlee wrote:Long before this execution, all states but Kentucky had banned public executions. The main reason was that the crowds started to side with the criminals and the authorities saw that the moral lesson of watching a criminal hang was lost to the reputation of the criminal and the carnival atmosphere of the execution.
Actually, the crowd noise was agitation by the agents provocateur of the Progressive movement. There was a push to ban the death penalty in the late 19th Century, and about 10 states did ban it. However, most states that banned the death penalty later brought back the death penalty to deal with communists and anarchists.
Drlee wrote:So no Blackjack it had nothing to do with "liberals". It actually had to do with conservatives who wanted the moral lesson of an execution brought home to the crowds.
That's ridiculous. Conservatives are for the death penalty to this very day--not your brand of conservative, mind you. Opposition to the death penalty was clearly a Progressive issue, and still is to this day.
Drlee wrote:It had nothing to do with race.
Liberals didn't like the extra-judicial killings of blacks. Why you are trying to strip them of that virtuous history is beyond me. The death penalty regained favor with excessive immigration and fears of anarchists and communists. Although, public executions never did make a comeback. I'm sure they would generate tens of millions of dollars for the pay-per-view TV rights alone, such is the nature of the mob.
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