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To: Chancellor Palpatine
"Why stoning?" asks North. "There are many reasons. First, the implements of execution are available to everyone at virtually no cost." Thrift and ubiquity aside, "executions are community projects--not with spectators who watch a professional executioner do `his' duty, but rather with actual participants."

Hey, you gotta admit, he's fiscally responsible. We wouldn't even have to pay the salary of an executioner. This would take a load off, if not completely eliminate, the prison system. And community stonings are democratic. I mean, a kid's first stoning would be sort of like a kid's first haircut--give him a little rock (with camcorder rolling) and watch him chunk it at the condemned with all his might, while the parents stand by, smiling indulgently. "That kid's really got an arm on him!" someone might say. "He'll be getting head shots with a fist-sized rock in no time at all!"

85 posted on 11/15/2003 11:46:32 AM PST by wimpycat ("I'm mean, but I make up for it by bein' real healthy.")
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To: wimpycat
It sure brings meaning to those Dylan lyrics....
86 posted on 11/15/2003 11:56:53 AM PST by Chancellor Palpatine
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