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It could be done on the National Lottery show, more viewers than that Jet Set nonsense.

Markdini wrote:I am all for Hanging in Public you could sell tickets for it. If you included the lottery draw with it. Actually if you had 6 people all lined up on gallows and has they where hung a ball could fall down. Just making a call to the bbc

I'd be all for it as long as they had Brucie presenting it. Sounds like Saturday night TV to me!

if ant and deck presentewd it then you'd have no shortage of volenteers to hang themselves, there nice lads and great performers they just tend to rub some people up the wrong way, I'm not one of them, i don't have a telly.

and if we call in they can scam all our money for nothing in return and they can hang more people!

thea'd certainly keep you hanging around on the phone line at £3 a minuet.

magicdiscoman wrote:thea'd certainly keep you hanging around on the phone line at £3 a minuet.

That was really bad.. haha!

themagicwand wrote:

Markdini wrote:I am all for Hanging in Public you could sell tickets for it. If you included the lottery draw with it. Actually if you had 6 people all lined up on gallows and has they where hung a ball could fall down. Just making a call to the bbc

I'd be all for it as long as they had Brucie presenting it. Sounds like Saturday night TV to me!

I wonder what they'd call it? 'Name Droppers'? 'The Hung Jury'? 'At the End of Your Rope'? 'Open Your Trap'?

Blimey, can you imagine the catchphrases?

"If a public hanging's what you're after, Brucie gives it with songs and laughter."

"We'll be right back after this break." *CRACK!*

Ahem.

Anyway, back on topic, I think there's a difference between respecting someone's culture and accepting something that wouldn't look out of place in the Old Testament.

I think the bending over backwards to tolerate the behaviour of what the Daily Mail would refer to as "mad mullah's" is quite dangerous. If the idea of stoning and beheading people hasn't caused some kind of revolution or need for reform then it's a very dangerous mindset we're dealing with, which is one reason why the "war on terrorism" will never be won.

It's funny how the US wanted to overthrow "Evil dictator with a lot of oil" Saddam Hussein, but leaves "evil dictator with no oil", Robert Mugabe, to go on merrily about his business. Double standards and lies.

For you guys to imply that America supports the actions of Bush, or the war is completely wrong. I for one, do not, nor did I vote for him. Nor do I support the atrosities of so called democracy. It isnt an act or policy of Americans, it is our current dictator who chooses to act on his own warped sense of direction despite the advice of the military, his advisors, or the American people. We are not all evil, in fact it is the few who are going against the majority.

I can fully empaphise with you living under a dictatorship which makes decisions most of the general public disagree with - we had years of Blair!

and if the news papers can be belived, god told him to go to war and raise stealth taxes but he didn't wan't to tell anyone because they would think he was a nutter.......................... too late.

They ban smoking in pubs for health reasons, then come up with idea of authorised "shooting galleries" for heroin addicts!
Bonkers! Smoking bad - heroin good!!!???!!!

I'm afraid that is the sort of 'justice' systems (if you can call them that) and operating government that are governed not by the people but by holy decee.
When you have any country guided by the morality and ethics of millennia old books then expect them to act accordingly.
Thanks heavens we live in a country where church and state are seperate. Any state which is governed by the holy laws of any the abrahamic state will immediately plunge back to the dark ages.

That's what happens when the imaginary bloke upstairs is a raging psychopath...his followers act like them too.

Also as far as capitial punishments then I'm afriad that both degrades socirty through state sanctioned murder (a society can be judged by the way it treats its prisoners) and acts not as a deterent either.
Texas kills more of its prisners than any other state in the U.S yet its viloent crime rate was 13% higher than the national average...So capital punishment working wonders there.
Finally there have been several high profile cases of late where convicted murders have since found to be innocent. Can you say that these innocent parties who would have been sent to the noose were acceptable losses? In all seriousness if you had a single pang of human decency you would have to say no.

You are assuming that society is so easily programmed. For the majority it may be, but I think that you will find that the laws here are made by special intrest groups, big business, and career poiticians, not the people.
It does not reflect what we think or believe. The current president acts on his own, despite the will of the people. He fires his Generals who dare disagree with his plans, and most of his own cabinet has resigned. Texas has always been like a seperate country, and it has been that way for a rather long while. But, here in the US nowdays, anyone who speaks out against the government is labeled a 'terrorist', thanks to the patriot act. Patriot act- what a joke. It used to be that to call a lie a lie was a patriot, now it means to turn in people who choose to exercise freedom of speech. The Us won't go back to the Dark Ages. What is barbaric, is the attempt to label a society because of the actions of the few, and the few have the biggest guns. Even so, there are groups who are stronly opposed to all of this maddness. It seems popular now to hate the US, and to blame us for all sorts of problems.... kind of reminds me of how Hitler demonized the Jews to justify genecide. There are people on these forums from the UK whom I respect, and it is not because of the politicts of their country. Nor would I judge someone based on the actions of their leaders- that is ignorance and predjudice of the most vicious kind and a most un- gentlemanly like attitude, which is to be blatant- quite disguting.
I would post my other views of the government of the US, but will refrain so as to avoid having the FBI show up at my door.

ahh a good political debate...