As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I wonder at the remarks of how evil Kim Jong Un is in killing a Korean traitor with firing a mortar at him, how this little remark of history by Thomas Paine, has somehow like the terrorism, murder, butchery, robbery and rape of Americans by the British in 1776 has been sanitized.
The British did something even more interesting in India conquest in this quote:
Her late reduction of India, under Clive and his successors, was not so properly a conquest as an extermination of mankind. She is the only power who could practise the prodigal barbarity of tying men to mouths of loaded cannon and blowing them away. It happens that General Burgoyne, who made the report of that horrid transaction, in the House of Commons, is now a prisoner with us, and though an enemy, I can appeal to him for the truth of it, being confident that he neither can nor will deny it. Yet Clive received the approbation of the last Parliament.
Thomas Paine in answer to Lord William Howe
I personally do not see the expense and waste of tying people to cannons and blowing them in half. It wastes powder and is a bloody gutty mess. It makes more sense in Kim Un in blowing a traitor to bits, as that way only the birds and worms pick up the pieces and you do not have to.
I would have thought a larger cannon in which the British would wad in a person and fire them back into a fort wall or rain them onto some other army would be of more terror effect. Sort of hard to wash a human imprint of a stone castle wall or not get the notice of an enemy camp in having body bit rain down on them.
Granted that is a large cannon, and would be not servicable to haul around due to to weight, but all the same, I wonder how the English got away with cleansing all their terrorism from history and the Germans are the bad guys.
I wonder if cruel and unusual punishment is covered in executions. I would believe that putting honey onto a guy and tying him to stinging ant piles would be a cruel execution, but I could not see it being that bad in sticking a guy down a howitzer and blowing him out into the ocean, compared to hanging or lethal injection. I suppose Missouri could blow them into Kansas or maybe states like Alabama could have a cannon and charge blowing criminals from other states out to the ocean where fish and birds would clean up the corpse.
I digress, but it is fasicnating to me, how some things are defined as cruel and other things are wonderful.
You do though have to be careful with cannon as when you elevate them, their metal fatigues, at least in the old iron cannons that was the case. Have to make sure you used enough charge, lofted the criminal high enough so if they survived the blast, the fall would kill them when they hit the water, unless you got them like a mile high and they would freeze or suffocate to death.
The reason for the altitude is that I could see CNN making a great deal of viewership in this, as it would be high drama in the half hour before blast off, and then viewers could be gripped by watching the wad pack falling back to ocean, for SPLAT DOWN, as water at that speed would be solid and no splashing would take place.
Maybe put in some kind of cement wad too, for distance and energy transfer, and burial at sea so the body would sink, as CNN would have some boat out there trying to get pictures of the mushed up body. Would imagine the concrete shoes would also be instant death on firing like being hit by a truck........does not seem to be cruel or unusual, as that one tyrant in the Bible had a woman drop a stone on his head that killed him.
That should be about all of this subject, although I would not mind renting an execution cannon to states as I could probably make a good living off of it. It costs like 60,000 dollars a year to keep a crook in prison, so if I charged 1/10 of that cost, it would be fair in states would save 50,000 dollars and I might make the Obama 113,000 dollar poverty level. I could live on that.
Tying people to cannons to execute them. How novel some genius is in the things they come up with.
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