George Washington supported public executions, specifically for military members…
He insisted they be done in the "most public manner possible", as justice and to act as a deterrent. The men who built England and America used to hang people for horse theft.
I am getting lots of incoming questions about the public execution of Nidal Hasan, mostly because I have been outspoken on wanting public executions for over a decade.
My position is simple: Executions should be public and brutal, not private and medicalized. They are the ultimate example of the state's monopoly on violence, and the only way to keep that from running out of control is to confront voters with the trade they have made every single time, that they might have appropiate confidence or revulsion in the institution.
This is not new thinking. George Washington thought the same. The way we have shifted from hanging to firing squads to doctors quietly injecting chemicals that send our worst gently off to sleep is awful and dystopian, a total short-circuiting of important feedback mechanisms. It makes needless executions more likely, not less so. People who demean this as barbaric or yucky miss the whole point. It doesn't somehow become torture or inhumane (as the UN is suddenly claiming) just because we decline to hide the act behind a curtain.
And then there are those who suggest any revel in the death of those who truly deserve it is an indicator of a broken or diseased mind. To the contrary. It is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order. That it has not been done here in 60 years is an indictment in and of itself.
And that is without even getting into the fact that men were not hung for stealing horse, but that horses may not be stolen.
"I would to God that one of the most attrocious in each State was hung in Gibbets, up on a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the Man, who can build his greatness upon his Country’s ruin."
- George Washington, 1778
kirk demonstrated that the public killing of your enemy is energizing for your side and demoralizing to your opponents, at a primal, tribal level. the great cry over this livestream comes from an instinctual understanding of this fact. be very suspicious of those who agree.
Charlie Kirk: "This is my problem with the death penalty, it takes too long, too many appeals. It should be quick, it should be public, it should be televised"
This brand of weakness must be removed from civilization if it is to remain civil at all. Civil for the people we care about anyway. And hostile to the people we don’t.
I would shoot this terrorist while he was sitting in a wheelchair crying in front of me. I don’t care.
You don’t know the world. You don’t know these types of people or what they’ve done. You live in the safest society humanity has ever produced. You don’t know what darkness lurks outside these borders. And the demons we’ve had to face down so you can enjoy this pathetically soft world view.
These people strapped bombs to kids with Down syndrome and sent them toward our lines.
They raped boys.
Woman are not people to them. I’ve seen them drop a dead girl in front of me, ask for money, and left the body.
They have sex with animals.
They butcher each of for God’s sake. In the most disgusting ways imaginable. Complete dismemberment.
Terrorists are not human to me. I have fully dehumanized them in my mind. They’ve made it easy after all. After fighting them in Iraq and Afghanistan, I just don’t fucking care.
The fact that you do care about them is your right I guess. You are sheltered after all.
But I will kill this paraplegic with my bare hands if ordered to.
My only regret would be that he could only die once, so I could fucking do it again.
What’s the objection? You only approve of “Execution by Musketry” when it’s without a trial, like Charlie Kirk?
Spare us your boos. We’ve seen what makes you cheer.
This brand of conservatism is dead. It has allowed the unchecked rape of the west by people who haven’t forgotten what raw power looks like. We have deterred nothing for decades in the name of kindness. And it has cost us everything.
I don’t want us to be like the regimes you’ve listed. When it comes to people breaking the law and killing my brothers and sisters in our borders? I want us to be far worse.