Posted on 04/27/2019 9:17:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Julio Santana dropped to his left knee and propped his right elbow on his hip, holding firm his hunting rifle until he had the man known as Yellow in his sights.
It was Aug. 6, 1971, and Santana was 17 years old.
In his village, deep in the Amazon rainforest where he lived in a hut with his parents and two brothers, he was known as a good shot. But he had only ever hunted forest rodents and monkeys for food. The man he was about to kill, Antonio Martins, was a 38-year-old fisherman with blonde hair and fair skin. Julio had been watching Yellow under a stiflingly hot forest canopy for three hours, and now wasnt sure he could actually bring himself to pull the trigger.
Yellow had raped a 13-year-old girl in a nearby village, and her father had hired Santanas uncle, a professional hitman, to kill him. Julio knew that in the sprawling and lawless Amazon, locals had taken the law into their own hands for hundreds of years. Still, he was shocked to find out that his favorite uncle a military policeman was also an assassin-for-hire. And now he was passing on his latest assignment to his nephew, hoping to recruit him as a contract killer.
Santana was reluctant, fearing that he would go to hell for killing another human being, but when his uncle, Cicero, explained how Yellow had tricked the girl, promising to take her to see the pink dolphins on the Tocantins River before raping her in his canoe, Julio began to change his mind.
To seal the deal, Cicero, too sick with malaria to do the hit on his own, told his nephew God would look the other way. All it took was 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our Fathers...
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How does one drop to his left knee, brace his elbow on his hip and manage and get someone in his rifle sights?
That looks pretty cool think i’m gonna watch it.
Thanks
Santana was obviously a truly creative contortionist, with rubber joints. Or, the "journalist" was dragging the entire story out of his rectum, because he couldn't sell it on Kindle.
“All it took was 10 Hail Marys and 20 Our Fathers...”
and
‘...but how does he KNOW every one was guilty...and hadnt yet repented....oops.”
The wife sees Catholicism as a flawed religion because of this forgiveness thing. Her favorite example is the Mafia. Go out and whack someone, then go confess to get forgiveness. Then repeat the cycle.
This story is the same thing, just a different version.
Yep - been shooting for over 60 years and have fired from all sorts of positions but can’t even visualize, much less attain, the position described.
Also girls are blonde, but boys are blond.
More like 20 Hail Marys and 10 Our Fathers... but like as the promise of an Indulgence for time off from RC Purgatory (in heretical RC tradition) for alms-giving, so also the practice of rote prayers prescribed in response to confession to Catholic prests is a corruption flowing from corruption.
But so is the idea that the faith that saves need not be a living faith which effects obedience toward the Lord Jesus who made it, so that even a (Mayor) Pete Buttigieg is defended as being a Christian.
Ah; the Universal cure!
I've heard that Rockwell Porter did fairly well...
Amazonian version of the Star Chamber. Works for me.
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