Thursday, March 28, AD 2024 3:33pm

Just Because

 

Deputy: Yeah, in Dallas they do it in a barn outside town.

Judge Roy Bean:  ln a barn?  Like they was ashamed of it?  Why, l’d rather give up hanging.  No, sir.  The law says that the guilty shall be punished.  And l say it shall be done

in broad daylight…in the open, not sneaking around.  Like you was the ones that was guilty,  not them.

Deputy:  What about the ladies, Judge?  Their delicate sensibilities?-And the children?

Judge Roy Bean:  -The children?  lt’s exactly what children need.  lt sets an example.  lt shows what happens  if they don’t walk the straight and narrow.

Screenplay, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

Stacy Keach gives an over the top comic performance in the classic film The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972).  The film gets both the life and times wrong, but the movie is vastly entertaining from start to finish with Paul Newman demonstrating why he was the last of the great Hollywood stars.

 

 

 

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Mary De Voe
Tuesday, August 21, AD 2018 5:00am

Capital punishment for homicide in the first degree demonstrates the power of attorney of the condemned, the dignity of the sovereign person to be executed and the purpose of the law to maintain and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our (constitutional) Posterity.
A law by which every person must live and die, no exceptions.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, August 21, AD 2018 6:26am

“. . . son of a billy goat.” I like it.

What part of the word “punishment” is not comprehended by death penalty opponents? What about the human dignity of the person murdered?

There is an interesting “take” on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness quote “Exterminate all the brutes!” Some reviewers say it’s a comment on contemporary ranges (murder, rape, certain larceny, etc.) of crimes/sentences that involved public hangings.

Re: insults. Toward the end of Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, Magua leaves the Delaware (Tamanend refused to hand over Uncas) village saying, “Dogs! Rabbits! Thieves!” It would be an uncharitable insult to all three (perceived low-lifes) to say it to democrats.

Ye Olde Scribe
Ye Olde Scribe
Tuesday, August 21, AD 2018 7:34am

Pope Francis’ failed attempt to change the Catechism on the death penalty seems to be in direct conflict with his constant embrace of Islam, for whom the death penalty is a modus operandi. Will he attempt to change the stance of Islam on that? Nah, he’s too busy surrounding himself with homosexuals.

PM
PM
Tuesday, August 21, AD 2018 8:43pm

I have been countering the vile Democrat diatribes and episcopal emmanations by watching encores of 50’s and 60’s weekly tv westerns.
I find clarity in morality and faith, good and bad, and right and wrong. So, on an episode of ‘Gunsmoke’ called “Lynotte”, Marshall Matt Dillon: Man needs laws, and someone to uphold them.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, August 22, AD 2018 4:08am

“Marshall Matt Dillon: Man needs laws, and someone to uphold them.”
We, the people have laws in our Founding Principles. Every sovereign person who institutes the state has the duty to be a law-abiding citizen. Every law-abiding citizen has the civil right, duty and power of citizens’ arrest. Some politicians tell you that you do not have the duty of patriotism, good will for the common good, but some politicians are liars.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, August 22, AD 2018 4:21am

“” “Dogs! Rabbits! Thieves!”” When man commits a sin and crime, man falls beneath the animals to the level of demons.
Animals have no conscience nor sovereignty (discipline over themselves) nor reason. They are dumb animals. Even the herd of 4,000 pigs ran off the cliff and drowned themselves in the sea to avoid being possessed by Legion. Man rejects the love of God and throws in with the devil through his God-given free will. Man wills to join the ranks of the devil.
An illegal invading alien has been arrested in the crime of homicide in the first degree against an innocent citizen jogging in the public. Why should he be allowed to live?

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, August 22, AD 2018 4:24am

“An illegal invading alien has been arrested in the crime of homicide in the first degree against an innocent citizen jogging in the public. Why should he be allowed to live?”
This question is directed toward Pope Francis I.

Foxfier
Admin
Wednesday, August 22, AD 2018 7:27am

The oddest thing about Trump’s presidency is that, suddenly, illegal aliens committing crimes that end the lives of innocent Americans actually makes the news.

Mary De Voe
Wednesday, August 22, AD 2018 6:16pm

“Pope Francis’ failed attempt to change the Catechism on the death penalty seems to be in direct conflict with his constant embrace of Islam, for whom the death penalty is a modus operandi. Will he attempt to change the stance of Islam on that? Nah, he’s too busy surrounding himself with homosexuals.”
Jesus Christ was crucified for the sin of blasphemy, for saying that He was the Son of God.
Islam puts to death people whom they consider blasphemers. Persons responding to the gift of Faith from God without harming any other person are executed for their religious expression innocent of any crime.
We have the wall of separation of church and state. Sins are forgiven by the church. Crimes are punished by the state.
Love God and your neighbor as yourself. If a person is heterosexual, it stands to reason that he must love his neighbor through his heterosexual self. All of these lawsuits against heterosexual bakers is a violation of loving thy neighbor as thyself. It is the state imposing homosexuality on heterosexual citizens.

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