Witness to the death of the long 20th century, plagued by visions of the horrors that will be bestowed unto us, but remember: Babylon is fallen to rise no more.
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It’s commonplace in mainstream and alternative circles to compare the current situation in both the US and Western Europe to the Weimar Republic. However, this comparison is flawed; history rhymes but doesn’t repeat. Let’s see which epoch of 20th century history rather fits (1)
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As Christa Pike, a woman who tortured a girl to death and took a piece of her victim’s skull as a trophy, receives life saving medical treatment following a botched execution, keep something in mind: many states in this country will not give medical treatment to a baby who survives abortion. In fact several states have specifically repealed laws requiring treatment for infants born alive after an abortion. And every single mainstream Democrat in the country opposes any law to protect infants who survive abortions. So this condemned murderer, who earned her execution through her own choices, is getting more humane treatment than infant children who were given a death sentence through no fault of their own. And every Democrat — every single one, no exceptions — empathizes far more with this murderer than with those babies.
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WHY EXECUTIONS SOMETIMES FAIL
Since everyone is talking about the botched execution of Christa Pike, let me explain a bit about U.S. law. I'm a former death-row lawyer from Texas.
First of all, the Supreme Court of the USA has decided that methods of execution which deform or mutilate the human body are "cruel and unusual" in violation of the 8th Amendment to the US Constitution. This also goes for method of execution that inflict a slow, prolonged death. These rules have not been explicitly stated by the Supreme Court Court, but are strongly implied by many of its rulings.
This means electrocution, hanging, guillotine, firing squad, etc. would likely not survive judicial review. So virtually all states have changed to lethal injection, which, when done properly, does not mutilate the body or lead to a potentially long and torturous death.
There is still a live controversy over which drug should be used, either the "classic" three-drug" cocktail barbiturate + paralytic + and potassium chloride. This, however, is complicated to use and risks leaving the condemned person awake but paralyzed. So Tennessee shifted to an overdose of pentobarbitol.
Why do you occasionally read of people being hanged or shot by a firing squad? Because if that was a legal option in a state when they were sentenced, they have the right to choose between a firing squad, for instance, and lethal injection.
Why do 7% of executions by lethal injection fail? First, many prisoners are old by the time they reach the gurney. Second, many have histories of intravenous drug abuse or one of the many medical conditions which can make it hard to find a vein. Their medical histories may also make it hard to predict how they will react to the lethal-injection drugs.
Third, doctors refuse to participate in executions pursuant to the Hippocratic oath. A doctor is present only to certify death. The people who actually administer the drugs are kept anonymous. They may be nurses or phlebotomists or pharmacists, often trainees, who are not formally subject to the Hippocratic Oath.
Of course, this will usually be the first time any of them have tried to kill a human being. As any prison warden will tell you, an execution is an extremely stressful and traumatic event for everyone involved. Witnesses on the victim's or prisoner's side may weep, shout, or bang on the glass. The prisoner may try to resist or give a long speech.
And of course, everyone in the room except for some repeat players on the prison staff will be witnessing something they have never seen before: the intentional killing of human being. (No, I've never witnessed an execution). No matter what your attitude toward the death penalty, this is incredibly dark and unsetttling. And the people who feel it most directly are, of course, the ones doing the actual killing.
So the entire situation is fraught with tension and sources of potential disruption. As for what will happen to Pike, she is in critical condition and may not survive. If she does, she will almost certainly be reprieved by the Governor of Tennessee. There is in fact an old common-law rule that someone who survives a botched execution should be allowed to live. But even if that weren't the case, I doubt political leaders in Tennessee want to risk anything like this again.
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Today is a strange day, and a lot of strange or sad things are happening. Don't know why. Take care and pray, friends.
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absolutely this. Merz shooting himself in the face yet again over a meaningless unnecessary issue that will also achieve nothing.
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In 212 emperor Caracalla granted all subjects of the Roman Empire citizenship. Roman Citizenship used to be a privilege people were willing to fight for, be it by becoming legionaries or even in civil wars against Rome herself. Being a Roman citizenship meant i.e. access to grain distributed as wellfare. However, in 212 citizenship privileges had been watered down so much that granting every citizen was just another step to increase the tax base. Instead of citizenship, other factors became more important, and amidst the misery feudalism appeared: personal loyalty and fealty as well as local connections trumped citizenship.
Very interesting read on the pre-WWI economic conflict between the Empire and Imperial Germany.
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Imago Dei is non negotiable, no there's no compromise, no exceptions, for we all are children of God. Panagia Protectress of the Unborn, pray for us sinners and forgive us for letting our world kill millions of innocents whose lives are seen as burdens.
Forgive us, O Lord..
It's almost comical that Germany is in dire need of a land reform, something that seems like a thing of the 19th century, but is now necessary more than ever.
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Regardless of the merits of capital punishment, few murderers think that far ahead that the threat of severe punishment, be it death or life in prison, would deter them from the deed. They don't expect to be punished at all, because we live in a society that allows aberrant behaviour (or barely punishes it) instead of removing those who are inclined to commit such crimes early.
Those perpetrators don't go from zero to child murder, they start out with possession of explicit material, abuse of small animals, later they start to violate humans, often with little consequence. Of course then they go on to escalate until somebody dies. You can tell them in abstract that murderers get the rope, but they learn that actions rarely have consequences. And yes, those who cannot be changed in their ways, ought to be removed from society as early as possible.
93 years ago, rapist and murder Rainey Bethea was executed. Time reported:
"Every bar was packed to the doors. Down the main street tipsy merrymakers rollicked all night. ‘Hanging parties’ were held in many a home"
America was a spiritually healthier nation when it did this.
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The German government is planning new legislation that essentially bans people who are listed as "extremists" from buying real estate. Needless to say that by the standard of German authorities, more than a third of the population would qualify as "extremist" (could be everybody who is not in the mainstream, be it right-wing, left-wing, support for Russia, rejecting COVID measures etc.). These listings are more or less arbitrary and seeking legal recourse is difficult and expensive.
Das ist wirklich ein Knaller, vor allem vor dem Hintergrund, wen der 'Verfassungsschutz' so alles als 'Verdachtsfall' führt, der dann keine Immobilie mehr erwerben darf.
Darunter würde dann so nebenbei im Prinzip auch die größte Oppositionspartei des Landes fallen.
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It is dawning to me that they are facing a massive lack of tax payers' money to redistribute, and the collapse of European industry, and thus are more and more willing to enter a war economy where the scraps are redistributed to certain privileged groups. I don't want to call it socialism for a variety of reasons, but it's certainly not a liberal market economy either. It appears to be comparable to the controlled economy experienced during the world wars, which have been cited as examples before to execute climate related policies.
Tbh, as I have said for weeks, they have been cooking something since the first days of the war. Especially them drawing parallels to the COVID hysteria is worrisome. Let's not forget that during the early days, they drew comparison to the measures during the oil crisis to justify themselves; now we see the reverse.
What really unnerves me about current German politics and mainstream media is that they barely take not of the crisis in the Persian gulf even though Europe is highly dependent on cheap fuel and LNG and there is a massive migration crisis looming on the horizon. This could be incompetence as usual. However, I believe that they are preparing themselves for an impending crisis including extreme measures (i.e. confiscation of fuel and food stocks, crackdown on dissidents like us). This really feels like February of 2020, especially in contrast to the start of the war in the Ukraine in February/March of 2022 when both mainstream media and politics were much more interested in transparent.
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The Comforter of Babies Slain in Their Mother's Womb, Cathedral of St. Michael, Serbia
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