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Sometimes life feels like a freak show, and the sane can either take it in or turn away. This week gave us more glimpses of horror than usual, which tends to make folks more amenable to harsh punishments. James, Steve, and Charles consider the death penalty in light of the heinous crime of an unsuccessfully executed Tennessee woman; they wade through the cloudy "Cornell Seven" case and draw important distinctions between moral depravity and criminality; and they look over to France, where the people of Paris swarmed the streets to see the Pope last week and which is today in flames as second- and third-generation immigrants riot. Makes you wonder whether la République and la révolution will ever square themselves in l’Hexagone.
Plus, Charles has an announcement about Ricochet 5.0!
Sound from this week's open: Marine Le Pen responds to the riots in France. And our own John Yoo talks about execution methods on Fox News.
Closing music: "Waltz for the Elephants" by Ziv Grinberg
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Once again I am experiencing ads dropped in at random. In mid-sentence even. Please fix this. In fact, why do I have ads at all? I have been a Thatcher member for years I should get something for it.
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Regarding justice and punishment. It seems logical that if the state will not use capital punishment or suitably long sentences for capital crimes, very short sentences are a second-best option, as they better facilitate private justice.
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The ad interruptions were much worse this week than usual.
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Obviously, the next step is to get the Working Families Party Attorney General Leticia James on the show to debate Charlie on the obvious points he made. After Derek Chovin, I am so distrustful of the justice system. I wish I could move to Wyoming. Letitia James would be just fine with communism and the way things they did them in the Soviet Union. She makes me want to throw up. The more I learn about how the justice system is supposed to work it just makes me sick.
This is a simple fact that I have never seen refuted. If you don't fear God, when you die, there is no reason to not kill people and take their stuff. People think that oh no, it's not that way blah blah blah. Our whole system requires inflation to not collapse and then they don't manage the side effects. Then people complain about socialism and capitalism, breaking out all over the place when all people want is to steal it back with government. Do people care enough or do they even bother to analyze it? No. People think they need their house loan paid off with inflation.
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Islam is incompatible with western government and none of those people should have been let into the west. Discuss.
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