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Posted: February 26th, 2006, 2:10 am
by stilltrucking
Posted: February 26th, 2006, 3:26 pm
by Glorious Amok
well, i don't think that capital punishment is theatre.
theatre is meant to be a religious rite which transfigures it's participants with the Dionysian healing powers of catharsis. and by "religious" i mean of the old tribal earth religions, not the neo-state-approved RC variety.
if capital punishment could heal like that, i would be adamantly for it. but it's neither theatrical, nor healing. it's mechanical, automated, and meant to be somehow efficient, a quality which isn't human in the least.
Posted: February 26th, 2006, 3:52 pm
by Doreen Peri
What I meant by referring to capital punishment as theater is that they have an audience which watches a person being put to death.
It's a public lynching.
It's a show.
I didn't mean it in the sense that a theatrical experience transforms an audience to the point where they have to suspend disbelief and enter a world of fantasy which can be enlightening. That's the theater you're talking about, oGloriousOne.
Capital punishment is more like Reality TV.
Posted: February 26th, 2006, 5:29 pm
by Dave The Dov
Like Bob Dylan sang in the song "Desolation Row". "They're selling postcards of the hanging".
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Posted: March 14th, 2006, 6:53 pm
by ill commandante
We were in lynching for the money mostly. The Klan thing is just business with my family. We haven't the ambition to take up full fleged racisim. If we did, we'd find better employment than that. You're always gonna lose when the public takes up lynching. They can't manage spectacle effectively and all that investment goes to entertain a small room full of observers. We were banned from competition by The State Of Alabama, and sent packing when we showed how to make a little money off a hanging. Maybe The Iraqis could pick up some cash for reconstruction if they sold hanging rights to the networks, now that they're back in full swing.
Posted: March 14th, 2006, 7:22 pm
by Doreen Peri
Hello ill commandante.
Who are the "we" you are referring to?
Posted: March 16th, 2006, 7:58 am
by lenny
If you believe in capital punishment then you must be ready to administer the needle. Human judgement is too fallible and the scenarios for every murderer are different. Some murders are acts of premeditated hatred, some, outbursts of uncontrolled emotion. When I was in Afghanistan there was a public hanging of four men convicted of murdering four French drug smugglers and it was announced in advance so that all the residents of Kandahar could be present to watch. I left Kandahar the day before the scheduled hanging for Kabul. Two sicknesses don't equal one cure. We are such a weird species.
lenny