"I have ever had the single aim of justice in view... 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'"
-Judge Isaac C. Parker, 1896
Go ahead and google Mr. Parker. And if you need another point of reference google Roy Bean while you're at it. So... let's elevate this whole debate of what to do about this mess the country is in, while at the same time reducing it in simplicity to playing both sides of a game of go.
First, everyone in a government job gets 72 hours to resign with an exemption from indictment that includes no restrictions to leaving the country prior to prosecution. Believe me all the principle players will know their cue. Even Nixon, as crazy as he was, knew when it was time to get on the helicopter. Get the hell out of my country and never show your face around here again. Hanging Judge Roy Bean.
Next, a conviction for High Treason [as with horse stealing, etc.] is now frontier justice; Get a noose. Now that the Gulf Coast makes West of The Pecos, Indian Territory or The Badlands look like a reenactment of The Shootout at the O.K. corral let's fight fire with fire starting with the people who are in charge of facilitating this unnecessary death and destruction. Again, what we have here is a wanton willful disregard for unreasonable human risk possibly with malice aforethought. Like two Portland Oregon Police officers told me a few years ago; "During the summer you believe how many homicides there are in this part of town. They rarely make the news because they are black."
I'm not talking about lynching these criminals but this country was built by hanging judges. The attorney's are already trying to figure out who owns the intellectual property rights to our public executions. That way the whole genre is open to a distribution deal with all rights available world wide.
Now put the crooks who were not smart enough to leave [obviously they are so insane as to be a threat to the safety of others] to death in some equivalent of a public square and I will guarantee above and beyond anything the "right to lifer's" have to say, it will be a real deterrent. And on top of that it will be the humane thing to do as when the humane society puts down a mad dog, unlike what happened to the people of the Gulf Coast who really died like dogs.
Broadcast the executions live with the first run on CSPAN. Now let the proper government agency sell the rights to a cartoon cable channel with all the proceeds going to a national "scared straight" program to ensure that we can sleep at nights as we try who ever is left of the administration as adults.
With good prime time ratings now practically requiring sexual frission combined with all out blood lust, run the "High Treason Execution Extravaganza" compilation on NBC [are they the one's that need the ratings?] with laughs for the whole family. I'm not saying a few innocent people won't slip through the trap door, but I think "the spin" is so in now, a good marketing and pr team can sell it to the rest of the world as "the price of democracy."
In any case, the price is right. Atari!
Rod Pitman
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