Timothy Birdnow

Trump wussies out!

Executing a guy decades after the fact and then making it private sends no message to anyone and in fact there is little reason to do it if the public doesn't see it happen. It loses any deterrence it may have had. There is a reason why executions used to be public until the mid-20th century. Many of the atrocities we see today did not happen much in the old days because everyone knew the ropes (literally). Now it's a case of a sanitary, quick, largely painless death and so especially young people will risk it.

Yes, there is the risk of making a martyr out of someone, but that's why you need to take steps to counter that. Burying a Muslim's body with pig skin or embalming tthem with bacon grease would be a good start; many Muslims believe this will prevent the jihadist from going to Heaven.

Me, I'm all for tossing the body into a pig pen and letting nature take her course, but of course filming it while we're at it. I doubt many would-be terrorists would be willing to seek their seventy two virgins and a mule if they figured they'd be eaten by hogs and wind up with seventy two ugly old homosexual men instead.

Trump shouldn't have chickened out on this. It is important the public see these kinds of executions. We have become entirely too squimish and soft to face certain realities. What the man did was horrible and we need to know that justice was served. Nobody was forcing anyone to watch it, I might add. But it should be available to be seen by the public.

This isn't going to gain Trump or the Republicans any good will. The Democrats will still trash Trump just for his Administration suggesting it. Better to be damned for what you do than for what you refrained from doing but get blamed for anyway.

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