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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:49 PM
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Hanging? Firing squad? What's the penalty for treason these days.
And since the CIA can and might go after the treasonists themselves, I guess they ought to take advantage of Cheney's insistence that they be able to torture information out of people. Maybe starting with Cheney himself.

Bwa ha ha ha ha!

Welcome to the rule of law, a-hole repuke scumbags!!
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William769 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:51 PM
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1. A position in the Bush Administration.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:52 PM
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2. Presidential Medal of Honor for the Bushies
Fortunately, Fitzpatrick disagrees.
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:54 PM
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3. damn. you beat me to it.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:04 PM
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10. Great minds?
or maybe just twisted....
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ChairmanAgnostic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:09 PM
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13. I think, perhaps, the latter.
but my humor is bent, not warped.

(thanks to Dougie Adams)
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:56 PM
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4. Playing them loud Barry Manilow songs 24 hours a day...
forever! Sorry if that sounds inhumane but it is the price they have to pay. I'd refine the agony by playing that video of Barry, on stage, in a kilt (fume, rage...how DARE he?))
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:57 PM
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5. A life term



on the Haliburton payroll.


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MsConduct Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:59 PM
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6. Ask Ollie North. He seems to have profited well from his
treasonous acts.
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astonamous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 03:59 PM
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7. Trade jobs with me. Let them try to survive on my wages.
Make them have to listen to the elderly patients I take care of everyday. Help them decide if they should eat or buy their meds or figure out how low their thermastat can be before the pipes freeze.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:00 PM
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8. drop them off outside the "Green Zone" and then the troops all leave
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:03 PM
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9. Hanging's too good for 'em
Burning's too good for 'em
They should be torn up in to itty bitty pieces and burned alive.
Or nuclear burned at the stake.
Then the entire bush administration, and all the leadership of the
republican party complicit in the treason are staked out in a desert
testing ground. Slow motion cameras are pointed at all of them that
transmit high speed images. Then, the 100 megatonne device is detonated.
The high resolution film captures the vaporization of each of them
in slow motion over 1000's of a second that they seem to live forever,
all 57 thousanths the execution would require.

They could send the lot of them up in a space shuttle missing heating
tiles, letting them "choose" their own destiny to burn up in the
atmosphere or go it alone to see if social darwin helps them out.

Or perhaps they should cut their accilies tendons, remove all their
property as proceeds of crime, and leave them homeless in los angeles
begging for food and care as disabled homeless poor people. And you'll
step over scooter on your way to venice beach, drunk with a huge beard,
prattling about imaginary weapons, with the rotten stench of alcohol on
his breath.

Another way to do it, would be a massive injection-execution, where
their blood is slowly replaced by embalming fluid over the course of
5 minutes, and all the while, they are interviewed on camera by
jeremy paxman.

but it seems rather to be wooden stakes and silver bullets after
midnight on a new moon to keep those vamps down.
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:07 PM
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11. STERNN!!!
Edited on Wed Oct-26-05 04:11 PM by FlashHarry
:nuke:
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:29 PM
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19. ha!
:-) yes :-)
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 10:45 PM
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20. Yes, well...
...I remember seeing Heavy Metal as a kid of twelve -- far too young for such salacious, ribald stuff. But, hey, it was aimed directly at me and my ilk. And, you know what? I've survived and even prospered since! Who'd a thunk it?
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 05:50 AM
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21. Here's the quote:
Prosecutor: State your name for the record:

"I am Hannover fist."

Prosecutor: "You know the defendent, Capitain stern?"

Yes i know captain stern and never did there a live a kinder more generous man. He's an overflowing up filled with the very cream of
human goodness. In all the time i've known him, he's never done
anything immoral;
...unless maybe the preschoolers prostitute ring
and he's never done anything illegal;
...Unless you count all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun.

He's always been a good law abiding citizen
....awww gimme a break
of the federation
....shuttup shuttup shuttup
a commmunity conscious individual...

STERN, he's nothin' but a low down,
double dealing, back stabbing, larcenous perverted worm.
Hangin's too good for him.
Burnin's too good for him.
He should be torn in to little bitsy pieces and buried alive.
I'll kill him.
KIIILLLLL."

I got out that old dusty video... remarkable given its pre-computer,
pre-MTV origins. Gosh i first saw it at 18 at the cinerama dome
in hollywood ... good times that... :-)

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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:10 PM
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14. Wow - that's beautiful!!
That's my kind of thinking!

:applause:
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harlinnchi Donating Member (60 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:09 PM
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12. And by the way, aren't we AT WAR?
Treason? In a time of war? As bogus as the war is (no offense to those actually fighting, but this ain't a war), treason during war has much more significant penalties!
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:11 PM
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15. Yeah, but then they'd just flip-flop and say that
"Congress never officially declared war, so that doesn't count".
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Rufus T. Firefly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:22 PM
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18. If that meant * couldn't say "we're at war" anymore, it'd be worth it.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:12 PM
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16. They put them in charge.
The court appoints them pResident I think.
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beyurslf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-05 04:19 PM
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17. Treason during a time of War? Death. They can pick their own method.
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