Battleangel

Something else to take pride in, while shoveling in thanksgiving turkey, getting a little fatter and revelling in bloodthirst and inhumanity.

AP - U.S. Nears 1,000th Execution Since 1977 - Gilmore in 1977 became the first person to be executed following a 1976 U.S. Supreme Court decision that validated state laws to reform the capital punishment system. Since then, 997 prisoners have been executed, and next week, the 998th, 999th and 1,000th are scheduled to die.

Ironically, Robin Lovitt, the would-be 1,000th victim, is held by the same flimsy excuse for a justice system that permeates the entire US system, and as such exemplifies exactly why capital punishment is such a medieval and abhorrent practise. Especially of course when that power is wielded in the corrupt society of contemporary America, where exacting revenge is itself a cult to be worshipped.

But this should come as no surprise for the observer of the international arena. When one wants to abuse other peoples, one first has to be able to abuse one’s own. Like Hannah Arendt put it,

“Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.”

(that quote just never gets old)