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Post by RickZ on Oct 16, 2007 13:29:26 GMT -6
And since The Smirking Chimp seized power, we've had wiretaps, our readinh and Internet habits monitored, dissent being suppressed, and increased censorship on TV (in the name of our "children," of course...just Bush paying back his theocracy-desiring allies like Falwell, Robertson & Dobson). What else would you call so-called "free-speech" zones and the fact that whenever Chimpy McFlightsuit speaks at a publicly funded venue, dissent is banned to the point that if cars are seen in the parking lot with anti-war stickers, the owners are tracked down and expelled from the venue. Our tax dollars at work... Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? In other words, you're a f*cking degreed idiot. I stand by this post, and it still applies. But I have to admit that I was being kind to the f*cking moron, sdl, then. Now? Well, . . . I'll chip in to buy the b*stard a one-way plane ticket to Cuba, just to get the f*cker out of the country once and for all. Like he should breathe this country's wonderful free air, the bloody hypocrite. Geez, but sdl is just too f*cking stupid to live. A future Darwin Award winner? I can dream, can't I?
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Post by RickZ on Oct 14, 2007 7:55:14 GMT -6
If you can explain to me how SDL is more offensive than RickZ's increasingly anti Arab rants I'd be interested to hear it. Just goes to show what an ignorant @ss you are, as has been shown many times here. Arabs are a minority of muslims (but the Wahhabs are the majority of the problem thanks to petro dollars). The largest muslim country in population is Indonesia, which is why being anti islam is not racist, like most progressive/liberal morons, like yourself, proclaim. But since you continue showing us your uncovered backside, excuse me while I go retch.
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Post by RickZ on Oct 11, 2007 10:10:21 GMT -6
I don't know who Bernadette Skillern is/was, but given your previous post I might assume that this person was someone who was derided as some kind of traitor. I look at it like this. I got involved in supporting Mumia because in my teenage naivite believed he was trully innocent. At the point where I could no longer suffer through the lies and the self-delusion I turned my back upon it. So, I don't view myself as someone who "sold out". My good intentions were manipulated by very cynical individuals and groups who care not for justice or even for Mumia. They are in it for self-promotion for themselves and their own political agenda. I see that emblematic with your posts here. You have turned a discussion about the celebration of a murderer into a forum for your outdated, reactionary, crypto-Marxism, where you needle people so they write something offensive so you can have a "gotcha moment". I again raise the issue of what kind of person goes out of their way to come to a message board about the death-penalty to re-argue the conflict in Vietnam. Hell, even the Vietnamese want to get over it and are moving towards capitalism. Since, this is ostensibly a thread about a Mumia "teach in", why don't you step up and share your no doubt insightful litany of slogans talking up Mumia's innocence? phillyexile, d*mn fine post. "You have turned a discussion about the celebration of a murderer into a forum for your outdated, reactionary, crypto-Marxism, ..." LOL! And so true.
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Post by RickZ on Oct 11, 2007 10:08:05 GMT -6
All academic events like this involve a forum for questioning the speakers. Why would anyone want to disrupt it? Because, from a liberal's point of view, "Free speech is for me, not for thee." They can't stand the truth, so better to disrupt the proceedings. Happens all the time with conservative speakers on American campuses, with the tacit approval (read, no sanctions for the disrupters) of college and university administrators all across America. More like shout down the speaker to make one's points. Can't have honest discussions on campuses, now can we? That would be so, er, humiliating. Besides, their heads might explode were they ever to hear two sides of an argument.
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Post by RickZ on Oct 10, 2007 8:23:27 GMT -6
Believe me, I celebrated two years later when Saigon was renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Oh, I do have two degrees...Journalism AND History... And speaking of History...I don't recall any VC/NLF/NVA planes dropping bombs on the USA, do you? In other words, you're a f*cking degreed idiot.
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Post by RickZ on Aug 27, 2007 6:20:15 GMT -6
So you find the reference to the 'racial' makeup of Conner's heavenly 'reward' telling, do you? Do you find telling that blond women are kidnapped or tricked from all over the world and taken to such areas of the muslim world? Do you find telling that such women end up in sexual slavery? Do you find telling muslims are encouraged to gather war booty, including women? (Which is why muslim men come to the West, come to the Dar-al-Harb [the House of War]: To bring back a second, or a third, or a fourth wife and expand his family's gene pool due to the koranic allowance of consanguinous marriages, which over centuries has created a genetic problem.) Do you find telling the number of rapes of non-muslim, indigenous women by muslim immigrants has skyrocketed across Europe, but most especially in Sweden (home of the blond, blue-eyed Swedish Bikini Team)? Amazing what you find telling versus that which you won't talk about. Dead Elvis: You win! LOL!
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Post by RickZ on Aug 24, 2007 10:19:33 GMT -6
I think she is referring to YOU, Rick. You crazy murderer lovin' scum-pal, groupie, you. Hmmm. Here I though 'pinbalwyz' was referring to you! LOL! In either case, 'pinbalwyz' would be wrong, and on so many levels -- too many to count.
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Post by RickZ on Aug 24, 2007 8:04:50 GMT -6
I find the reference to the racial makeup of Conner's 'Heavenly reward' made by the anti-DPer above, telling. Which "anti-DPer above"?
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Post by RickZ on Aug 24, 2007 7:07:51 GMT -6
That's not what I'm concerned with. I just want to know how many virgins he gets?!!!!! nah! you've got to blow yourself up to get a virgin. Slowly being juiced only gets you a disease-ridden, crotchity, mangy, old sheep. DE, if he's executed for jihad (as in killing for allah), then I think, based upon a plethora of fatwas, he'll get that ticket into the eternal orgy that is islamic paradise. [Based upon the circumstances of the crime not being in the service of allah and jihad, I don't see Conner falling into that category, though.] VA executed a jihadi, Mir Aimal Kasi, for the shooting outside the CIA headquarters back in the early '90's. His body was given a jihadi hero's welcome 'home' back in Pakistan, amid much allahu ackbar-ing. A jihadi from Pakistan. Who knew? Besides, one can only hope that Kasi's 'virgins' also come from Pakistan; no blond bikini'd beach bunnies for him!
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Post by RickZ on Aug 23, 2007 10:16:47 GMT -6
"This is destiny. This is life. This is something Allah wants me to do," he said in his lengthy statement. . . . "What is happening to me is unjust . . . ," Conner said. So the will of allah is unjust, eh? Geez, I coulda told him that. DE: Sorry about that, but GMTA and all that. I only read to Arkansasboy's post when I wrote the above and . . . , well, you know.
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Post by RickZ on Jul 12, 2007 8:14:33 GMT -6
I have a feeling there will be a lot of hungover people calling in sick tomorrow in South Dakota. This is certainly one that is long overdue. I have a feeling you ought to put your morbid sorry azz down for a couple of days to contemplate how the he11 it's possible and admitted for a person to make such a sh!tload of twisted, sick and dehumanizing statements for such a long period of time and still getting deemed as intellectually and emotionally competent to have a somewhat front seat position on a board dealing with such vulnerable subjects and matters concerning life and/or death. No wonder the member rate is falling. Get real FFS, especially since you're able to once in a while. That's cute. Take a swipe at Agave for ridiculing and making fun of condemned murderers, but give the murderers a pass. To earn death penalty 'honors' in this country, one must do more than just kill in a premeditated manner (as an example, we rarely execute today hit men like Gravano or Kuklinski); there are elements of depravity as well, of killing in a cruel and horrible manner. Have you ever read what these condemned murderers have done to their victims (and I have read some anti's, usually of the scum pal variety, who gleefully proclaim that what these murderers did is irrelevant and not worth knowing)? How they played judge, jury, and executioner coupled with maiming and torturing their victims? Throughout history, there has always been vicious murderers, vicious murderers who, once found out, suffered a much worse fate then than we now employ today with the 'c*cktail for one' method. You disparage someone who ridicules, rightly, such people. For what reason? Because the murderers are people, too? How far we've sunk when we can no longer identify and name evil, much less be able to ridicule it.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 14, 2007 7:57:00 GMT -6
Both stays tonight really suck. I'm probably going to take a break from the DP and this board altogether, since the DP is such a joke. Don't blame you, guy, but stick it out. You add a lot to this board. probably more than you realize. Ain't that the truth.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 13, 2007 3:17:50 GMT -6
An Oklahoma death row inmate has terminal lung and brain cancer. He has less than 6 months to live as a result. He asked for clemency, which has been denied. Oklahoma still plans to execute him June 26. His appeal for clemency as a result of cancer is akin to the defendent who murders his parents then pleads for mercy from the court because he's an orphan. This Bland character has brass ones. Good on Oklahoma for seeing through this death row inmate's bullsh*t. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19196443/OKLAHOMA CITY - The state parole board refused Tuesday to block the execution of a death row inmate who is dying of cancer. Jimmy Dale Bland is to be executed June 26 for the Nov. 14, 1996, murder of 62-year-old Doyle Windle Rains 11 years ago. He is "on the verge of death" with advanced lung cancer that has spread to his brain and his hip bone despite radiation and chemotherapy, defense attorney David Autry told the five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board. Even if the 49-year-old man were not executed, doctors have said he has as little as six months to live, Autry said. The board voted 5-0 to deny clemency. Bland chose not to address the board via videoconference from his cell at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester and did not speak to board investigators before Tuesday's hearing. "He feels at this point that all hope is lost," Autry said. He said Bland's death sentence should be commuted out of "simple decency and mercy for a person who is terminally ill and is going to die anyway." [Ed. - Left unsaid is that we are all going to die one day anyway, so why have executions at all? A nonsense argument. Why should a death row inmate decide on his manner and time of death?]'Cancer doesn't change' trial verdict Assistant Attorney General Seth Branham said Bland's medical condition was not grounds for clemency, and that Bland forfeited his right to die of natural causes when he shot the victim in the back of the head. "Cancer doesn't change what happened at that trial," Branham said. The victim's stepdaughter, Christina Stringer, and her husband, Gary Stringer, also urged the board to deny clemency. She said Rains helped Bland and gave him a job. "He's had enough compassion," Gary Stringer said of Bland. "He's had enough mercy. We need some justice here." Bland spent 20 years of a 60-year sentence in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping charges in 1975. He had been out of prison for about a year when he was accused of shooting Rains to death. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Bland's final appeal in April. Autry said courts had found prosecutorial misconduct in Bland's trial but that the acts were not serious enough to reverse the conviction and order a new trial.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 1, 2007 5:08:37 GMT -6
I really think most of the posters here couldn't care less about hotnosh's opinion. Everyone is rude to him because he is an immoral, murderer loving piece of *crap*. If there were still rep points to hand out, . . . . Way to go, Kid. Nice sentiment, and one in which I am in complete agreement.
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Post by RickZ on Jun 1, 2007 4:30:33 GMT -6
My opinion is that it was an accident and it was not murder. 12 citizens and a judge think otherwise. And they heard and saw the evidence, unlike yourself. Okay, so you're just ignorant. 'Tragic accident'! LOL! Maybe Cathy was smarter than you because she feared any future forensics results. Which really did her in, . . . well, almost. She'll get there yet. Her table for one is still waiting. Burying the evidence of a crime suggests she is a guilty person. Like no one would miss the baby or the baby never existed. "The infant's body was found buried 60 miles away with his skull crushed, wrapped in his yellow-trimmed white blanket and stuffed into a box that previously held Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers." So Cathy travelled (drove?) -- in shock-- 60 miles with a dead baby in the car, only to bury it? Ockham's Razor must overrule your 'shock' theory. Paul is a d*ckwad. And you sound like his recepticle.
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Post by RickZ on May 23, 2007 7:37:38 GMT -6
Wow! Way cool story, George/AZVet. From other posters' comments on your statements to the media, it sounds like a job well done. Excellent. Thank you.
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Post by RickZ on May 22, 2007 15:07:29 GMT -6
Somedays, one just needs good news. And this execution qualifies quite nicely.
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Post by RickZ on Mar 15, 2007 5:32:26 GMT -6
The reason why potential jurors are not asked whether they could impose a prison sentence (I'm talking about a felony case but non-capital in nature) is because a finding of guilt carrys prison time automatically (i.e., priosn is the penalty as a matter of law). In a capital case, a death sentence is not automatic. However, prosecutors do ask constantly whether jurors would have a problem imposing signifcant prison sentences in case of conviction. Love, RED Yep. And yet, some people still can't convict and have the judge sentence the convicted to prison because either it's mean or the juror cannot judge anybody (which makes them perjurers, not being able to judge on the evidence and all). As for the Couey jury, if some of the 10 jurors who voted for death bring up to the court the non-deliberative nature of either of the 2 life jurors, then one or both of those jurors should be tried for perjury. Too many take the juror oath lightly, as if it's a game. It's time to start disabusing people of that idea. And perjury convictions would go a long way toward doing just that.
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Post by RickZ on Jan 10, 2007 7:20:51 GMT -6
I much prefer the Japanese method, where they just go and get 'em. Today's your day, pal, you've got 5 mins to prepare. I think I prefer their method, too. Keeps them nervous 24/7. Just the sound of footsteps......yeh, I like that. The Soviets used a similar method. The condemned were kept in cells, and never knew the date of their impending execution. When the door was opened, they never knew if it was to deliver food or to drag them out to be tied to a wire fence and a bullet put into the back of their head. (That method was for common criminals; some traitors were tied to a slab and fed feet first into a large kiln/crematorium, wth the proceedings filmed and shown to others entering the intelligence community as a warning.) (Andrei Chikatilo, Russia's most well known serial killer [except for the government itself], met this 'bullet in the back of his head' fate.) Just the sound of the cell door opening drove some condemned over the edge, though they did not have a 'mental' escape clause. There's something to be said for those protocols.
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Post by RickZ on Jan 10, 2007 7:07:32 GMT -6
With less than 24 hours to go, he must be terrified. "When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." ~ Samuel Johnson One can only assume that with one day to go until his deadline (pun intended), Hamilton must be a friggin' genius wrapping up his latest erudite tome on gravity, blood flow, and IV catheters, to be published posthumously, of course.
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Post by RickZ on Jan 15, 2007 7:05:34 GMT -6
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011500245.htmlAnger, suspicion at Saddam aide gallows beheading By Ghazwan al-Jibouri Reuters [With a headline like that, who else could it be but al-Reuters?]Monday, January 15, 2007; 5:48 AM TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ites, oppressed by Saddam Hussein, welcomed the hanging of two of his aides on Monday though some also joined Sunni Arabs in expressing shock that his half-brother's head was ripped off by the noose. Saddam's two co-defendants were hanged before dawn on Monday, the Iraqi government said, but they admitted that the head of his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was also torn from his body by the force of the rope during the execution. . . . ----- Why the angst about a beheading, even if by rope, in islamia? And was this worse than being fed alive, feet first, into a shredder?
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Post by RickZ on Jan 15, 2007 6:30:40 GMT -6
Executed this early morning in Iraq To achieve what exactly? Yes, all three were heinous psychopaths who murdered at will and oppressed an entire nation, but what does execution provide that a lifetime in prison cannot? 1) No possibility of a future hostage exchange for prisoner release. The Palis do this all the time. 2) No chance of their ever getting back into power and doing the revenge thing. Ask the Iraqis. Their charges, their trial, their conviction, their sentence. Naw. That's just your head ringing hollow.
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Post by RickZ on Jan 4, 2007 11:21:06 GMT -6
Grandma you have missed the point. Low voltage cooks the inmate to death instead of knocking them out. A voltage of 10000 volts would guarantee instantaneous death. It's the amps, not the volts, that actually kill. The volts are to cause unconsciousness and heart arrhythmia. The amps cook the body. Which is why most electrocution protocols call for alternating voltage with amperage. It's also why tasers using 50,000 volts don't kill, but your home electrical outlet will thanks to the amperage.
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Post by RickZ on Jan 4, 2007 5:08:13 GMT -6
a man was fried last year? where? I've read that in america only the needle is used, the gas chamber is also a choice, but almost everyone stick to the needle nowadays. Virginia still allows an inmate the option between electrocution and lethal injection (at least those sentenced before lethal injection was used). I believe that was the state where an electrocution recently took place.
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Post by RickZ on Dec 18, 2006 8:51:29 GMT -6
I agree that the end result was not botched, however the procedure itself was, the needles were incorrectly inserted. Were they? I didn't know that if true. Or was there something about the medical history of the inmate, himself, that caused all the hand-wringing? You know, kay, that might be the problem in a nutshell. We are trying to make the death penalty appear painless and clinical. Maybe it should be a little messy, like the smell of burned flesh or gasping inmates breathing in gas. Such executions inspire fear in the inmate and the general public. But having a medical procedure done, and going under the anesthesia, make it almost benign. Instead, make the death penalty something to avoid at all costs. That would increase its deterrence value.
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Post by RickZ on Dec 15, 2006 16:49:58 GMT -6
I'm sorry, but "botched"? Diaz is dead, right? Not a botched execution then, as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by RickZ on Dec 15, 2006 8:42:54 GMT -6
"They have violated our rights and those of Angel's, who had 34 minutes of suffering," she said in a telephone interview.
Well then, let's just change the execution method to a .357 round in the back of the head. Then, I can guarantee you, there will not be hand-wringing over '34 minutes of suffering'. Of course, the executed's funeral will be closed coffin, but hey, that's a small price to pay to end such needless suffering on the part of the condemned, as well as the suffering I must endure when I read such claptrap.
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Post by RickZ on Dec 13, 2006 23:58:02 GMT -6
My wife and I have recently been having real conversations about changing countries. We both really like The Netherlands and Norway. Anywhere up there. On this point, you may want to do some reading, like this Afterposten article. [ftp]http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1567514.ece[/ftp] 12 Dec 2006 Rape reports soar in Oslo Nearly 300 women have sought help so far this year from Oslo's emergency clinic handling rape victims. That's a higher per capita rate than New York City's, . . . The clinic (voldtektsmottak) at the emergency hospital known as Legevakt has never had so many rape victims to treat. Its ability to care for them all is being severely tested. The number of reported rapes has skyrocketed this year, from 235 last year. . . . ----- And just who is responsible for the increase in rapes in Oslo? Who else? From 2001: www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article190268.ece05 Sep 2001 Oslo rape statistics shock Two out of three charged with rape in Norway's capital are immigrants with a non-western background according to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily.The study is the first where the crime statistics have been analyzed according to ethnic origin. Of the 111 charged with rape in Oslo last year, 72 were of non-western ethnic origin, 25 are classified as Norwegian or western and 14 are listed as unknown. Rape charges in the capital are spiraling upwards, 40 percent higher from 1999 to 2000 and up 13 percent so far this year. Nine out of ten cases do not make it to prosecution, most of them because police do not believe the evidence is sufficient to reach a conviction. Police Inspector Gunnar Larsen of Oslo's Vice, Robbery and Violent crime division says the statistics are surprising - the rising number of rape cases and the link to ethnic background are both clear trends. But Larsen does not want to speculate on the reasons behind the worrying developments. [Ed. - But of course he doesn't want to speculate! It would be 'islamophobic' of him to do so.]----- I would say that while the grass may appear greener, it might just be a paint job.
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Post by RickZ on Nov 5, 2006 18:15:28 GMT -6
A reporter from the Beeb wrote that? I wonder how it got by their internal moral equivalency censors? And where were their anti-American editors to juice the story up a bit? I'm confused.
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Post by RickZ on Oct 29, 2006 11:12:43 GMT -6
Californian, from your article:
"I witnessed his execution and it was nothing compared to what he put his victims through," Julie Grissom's mother, Joyce Burton, said in a written statement. "At least I can get up knowing he's not breathing the air that our children should still be breathing."
And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the Pro-DP side of this 'debate'.
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