What Old-School Punishment Do Traitors Deserve?

[YDogg]

On edit, thanks for the additional suggestions. :-)

[wtmusic]

1. Tarring and feathering nt

[bucknaked]

6. My write-in...

[Outrider]

2. Public disembowelment n/t

[Systematic Chaos]

3. My idea of proper punishment

would make Gitmo look like a Sunday picnic. And best of all, it would be shown on TV as a Survivor-type show where the last one breathing thinks they win their freedom, but then they learn that theirs is the most horrendous end of all. :evilgrin:

[Longhorn79]

15. I assume John Walker Lindh falls under that sentence?

[nankerphelge]

What?

No Judas pyramid?

[Endangered Specie]

54. mmmm, talk about a pain in the ass.

:evilgrin:

[Lord_StarFyre]

4. Here's what all GOP, oops, I mean Traitors Deserve

[sweetheart]

5. Apparently on the big island of hawaii...

there is a sacred ground. When someone was convicted of a capital
offense, they were released and hunted across the entire island with a
death sentence. If they reached the sacred ground, then they were
free.

Methinks that american justice has lost the principal of sacred ground
in its search for uniformity. Courts are hamstrung by minimum sentence
laws, and no justice can be applied by those most aware to apply it.

Sadly.

[barb162]

52. easier to throw him in Mauna Kea; why waste time running after him

[baby_mouse]

7. Well, back in Old Europe in the Good Ol' Days...

... those good ol' days that one of those silly Republicans wants us all to return to (I forget which one, he clearly doesn't know very much about them), they used to tie people's hands behind their backs, cut a hole in their gut and pull out and sever one end of the small intestine. Then they would nail that end to a tree and flog the prisoner so that he ran around the tree and ended up wrapping his own intestines around it as they were pulled out of him.

:-)

Europe. Lovely old place.

There are others. I could go on...

[SmokingJacket]

8. Chain gang. Rock smashing. nt

[Democracy White]

9. I have a kind of a gruesome idea

it's kinda like drawing and quartering but a bit different.
You take the criminal to a forest where there is an abundance of evergreen trees.

You put ropes on two trees and flex them down toward each other (note: the trees have to be flexible) and tie the ropes into stakes in the ground.

You attach two more ropes on each tree and tie them nice and tight, near the top preferably. You then take the criminal and stand him/her between the bended trees and tie the other ends of the ropes on the criminals hands and feet. You then have two cutters at each tree anchor and have them cut the anchor rope at the same time. The result should be that the trees fling back to their original positions thus taking the criminal with them. The arms and legs are ripped off of him/her and the head and torso continues to sail into the sky until gravity reclaims it.

Dee

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Drawing and quartering.

Which involves slow strangulation, castration, and disembowelling...the "quartering" isn't done till AFTER the execution.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Beheading or the firing squad. I prefer flogging around the fleet.

Keelhauling could be survived.

Flogging around the fleet was where the miscreant was given a set number of lashes from the cat on every ship of the fleet in port. So, if the punishment was a dozen lashes per ship, the prisoner would be rowed from ship to ship, taking the punishment from every ship of the fleet in port. In some cases, the man was hauled up and lashed to the grating well past being dead for the punishment to be meted out; it was as an object lesson to all crewmembers who were piped up and assembled to witness the spectacle.

We're never so creative as we are when trying to hurt others.

[Blue_Tires]

12. one word: guillotine

the French were really ahead of their time (came in handy for the revolution, as well)

[TankLV]

13. Shooting by Fireing Squad - it's THE punishment for Treason.

Don't believe me - check it out.

It's clearly spelled out.

One of the only and last places for it.

[Island Blue]

14. I voted for walking the plank

There are sharks in those waters, don't ya know!

[Montauk6]

16. It's funny: when you said that, I was thinking...

Swats with ping-pong paddles, and standing in the corner.

[Bluebear]

17. I fear Rove has a very kinky streak & would enjoy any of those

[Lori Price CLG]

49. LOL!! But, not as much as WE would enjoy him receiving any of these!

More members of the Bush regime need to be tried for treason, in addition to KKKarl Rove!!

BTW, I voted for 'Drawing and quartering.'

:)-Lori Price

[Booster]

18. I don't have a clue what Public Disembowlment means, but it

sounds really ugly, so that's my pick.

[yurbud]

26. they break your bowling ball

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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[greekspeak]

19. I voted tar and feathers

Of course we all know from the Music Man et al period pieces that after you tar and feather someone you ride them out of town on a rail. Jawohl?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

20. Marooning

But, a televised marooning.

Watching them with no libruls and the eveel media to blame for what happens to them, forming and breaking alliances, back stabbings, front stabbings, kinda like the Young Republican National Chairman Elections meets Survivor.

A Watch-Them-Eat-Their-Own-Ratings-Bonanza.

Muaha and haha and ha and ha again, says I. Aharrr.

:evilgrin:

[wli]

21. medieval quackery

This is no deterrent. Humane execution methods are better because then we don't become savages ourselves. In fact, the only reason to execute a traitor is to end claims to succession.

[kestrel91316]

24. Have to admit, though ................

this "medieval quackery" sure as hell would deter the subjects from ever pulling such treasonous crap again, no?

[wli]

30. not really

Generally they won't try again since they'll be suspected. Others may, though, but they won't be deterred by medieval torture chamber shenanigans.

[madeline_con]

22. Keelhauling!

I like water sprots, so that would be my choice.

It's also an answer to the use of the waterboard as a torture device used on those in US custody. :evilgrin:

[Just Me]

23. They deserve what they advocate.

Yep. My opinion is that they deserve what they have advocated. Although I am anti-death penalty,...I make exception for those who were for KILLING to meet their rules.

When Rush was exposed as an addict,...I figured he deserved what he delivered.

[yurbud]

25. disembowelment could take a hell of a long time with Rove

that guy looks like he has the bowels of three men (including Jeff Gannon).

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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[WhiteTara]

36. LOL that is so funny

:rofl:

[DanCa]

27. Locust

You cant go wrong when your locked in a room full of bugs. JK

[yorgatron]

28. beaten to death with a sock full of nickels.

[DanCa]

29. why not worked for charles bronson

[dooner]

33. wow, that's harsh (but funny) n/t

[wickerwoman]

31. Transportation to the colonies.

Would anyone else love to see Karl Rove sporting the Halliburton fall collection flak jacket strutting around downtown Fallujah?

[dooner]

32. t&f sounds less violent and more humiliating than the others..

so I vote for that.

but what the heck is keelhauling?

[Coventina]

39. Keelhauling was a punishment for sailors "back in the day"

It consisted of the offender being lowered from the prow of the ship, then dragged along the keel. If he survived (not usually) he was then plucked from the waters astern.

[dooner]

41. geeze, aka the Flipper Treatment n/t

[Endangered Specie]

56. A Dutch invention of corporal punishment 'at sea'

very very old school.

The idea is you tie the guilty with a rope that goes under the shipand up the other side(this can be done either bow to stern, or perpendicular to the ship). The man(men) in charge pull the rope, thus pulling the condemned underwater and against the hull of the ship, all the way until he emerges from the other side...

Now, this is particlarly painful because of splinters and barnicles on the hull, if the keelhauling is done right, the condemned will drag slowly but forcefully against the hull and not emerge until just within inches of drowning and bleeding to death.

[LaurenG]

34. Maroon them

Make them go live with themselves and what they've done for 10-20 years.

[WhiteTara]

35. I thought the penalty was death by firing squad eom

[Coventina]

37. I like the marooning idea!!!! Here's why

It's actually very poetic justice.

Strand them on an island that has fresh water and food supplies, and then "let them pull themselves up by their own bootstaps."

No government welfare, no interference in the free market, just free enterprise!!!

They should consider it paradise!

[JNelson6563]

38. I believe the ultimate was a combination

They'd hang you and drop you down just as losing consciousness. Then you were disemboweled and then you were drawn and quartered. Of course this doesn't include any preliminary torture prior to your exectution.

God, King and Law, baby! http://bushflash.com/brits.html

Julie

[Alien8ed]

40. As I Recall...

The correct punishment is to be drawn, disemboweled, quartered and beheaded AFTER being formally condemned by the Presiding Officer of the Tribunal, and remanded to the custody of the Senior Officer of the Watch On Deck, to be hung by the neck, by raising, from the forward yardarm of the USS Constitution.

I understand that the ship, now known as "Old Ironsides" is still available through the auspices of the Commander of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

It will require a phone call to his office by the Secretary of the Navy to arrange for the correct disposition to be made.

A suggestion: I think the Old Washington Navy Yard in DC would provide a lovely, and exceptionally appropriate location.

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[Endangered Specie]

53. Some of us have darker senses of humour...

if you dont like it, click on the hide thread icon, simple.

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[kittenpants]

43. Am I the only one who likes the cat o' nine tails?

The name alone is priceless.

[lateo]

44. Other....

Throw them to the lions!

[omega minimo]

47. FREE ELECTIONS AND A FREE PRESS

:bounce:
:bounce:
:kick:

[Hubert Flottz]

48. Turned over to the Iraqis!

The ones who's little kids have been blown to pieces by the smart weapons in the hands of tolal dumb asses.

[Endangered Specie]

50. from that list: Drawn and Quartered, after being Keelhauled...

my personal 'favorite' write ins though:


Bamboo Torture

(that is, where you tie someone over a bamboo tree and let it grow through them in various places).

or, a more 'modern' approach:
Head-in-a-Vice, Joe Pesci style

[alfredo]

51. Being forced to listen to Ashley Simpson sing.

[Lori Price CLG]

55. Kick. n/t

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