Dan McLaughlin – a man of the Right but whom I often disagree with – posted a Tweet the other day saying we should have hung Jefferson Davis after the Civil War; this has sparked a bit of a debate with most people disagreeing with McLaughlin. I was one who supported the assertion. Not only Davis, but Lee; in fact, all elected officials of the Confederacy; all cabinet officials; all general and flag officers; all governors of seceded States; all elected officials of seceded States – all should have variously been hung or if mitigating circumstances were found, imprisoned for long terms, most for life. Additionally, all members of the Confederate States armed forces should have been permanently disenfranchised if no other punishment was warranted for actions during the war.
Harsh, huh?
But not really. For the longest time I went along with the agree-upon post-Civil War Narrative that Grant’s “let ’em up easy” terms were best as it was asserted it quickly restored national unity and ensured against a repeat. But upon long reflection, I have concluded that this Narrative is as much drivel as the former Confederate’s Lost Cause Narrative.
First off, there wasn’t going to be a repeat. The war was over. The South was utterly crushed. They had no means with which to wage war. The huge armies that the South managed to field in 1863 were gone and couldn’t be remade. It was more than a generation before the physical damage was repaired. The concept that the South – having just been wiped out – would resort to arms if we weren’t nice to the Confederates is just nonsense on stilts.
Secondly, the former Confederates weren’t in the least moved by mercy. Their sole purpose once we decided to let them go was to restore as far as possible the supremacy of the Planter Class which had engineered secession and lost the Civil War at massive cost to those Southerners who had no stake in the Planter Class. The Klan was formed six months after the last battle; and it’s purpose was to beat down any person, black or white, who might strive for a new direction in the South. Anyone who wanted blacks voting, getting educated, owning property was targeted. Yes, most of the direct violence was against black people…but plenty of white people felt the fury as well; to intimidate them into looking the other way when the Klan went out to murder. The only thing which prevented the former Confederates from reimposing slavery was the 13th Amendment – and with the Klan they imposed a system which was all but slavery.
Davis, Lee and a few other top people hanging from a gallows and you don’t get this. Disenfranchised Confederate soldiers means black Southerners united with those whites who resisted the Confederacy (and there were a lot of them) would control the future of the South. There would have been a real Reconstruction; a real re-integration of the South into the national political system…not this bastard, hybrid system we had from 1865 to 1965 where in parts of the country American citizens were routinely denied basic rights because of their skin color. There was more shame in Jim Crow than slavery, when you really think about it – we inherited slavery; we made Jim Crow…or if not made it, tolerated it. Looked the other way; pretended it wasn’t happening or wasn’t a problem. It was a poison injected into our society after the most glorious moment in our history – the end of slavery. And think of all the people who died or were brutalized because of Jim Crow. Set that against twenty or thirty people hung…people who had, no matter how you sliced it, levied war against the United States, and so were traitors by the strict definition of the Constitution.
Mercy, you see, isn’t softness. It isn’t a refusal to acknowledge what happened and demand an accounting – it is a decision to remit full punishment for transgression. In other words, you do not exact your pound of flesh. But this doesn’t mean you don’t take an ounce or two. After the Hungarian rebellion against Austrian rule in 1848, one of Bismarck’s friends bemoaned the repression the Austrians were dealing out to the defeated Hungarians. Bismarck asked in reply words to the effect of, “what about all the people who died in the rebellion? Doesn’t their blood cry out for justice?”. What Bismarck was hitting upon is that anyone who resorts to arms bears responsibility. To be certain – and Bismarck would agree – at times you can be in a position where resort to arms is the only way out. But even if you are fully justified in fighting, people are going to die…and it will be the most innocent who suffer the most because you decided to fight. The Hungarians felt they had to fight (I’ve thought about it and I don’t think they were justified; there were vitally necessary reforms but there was no reason to fight; given the nature of the world at the time, the Austrians weren’t being oppressive brutes and there was a great deal of willingness to reform in the government); fine – fight. But they lost. And now the instrument of government must exact a reckoning on those who resorted to arms. Schwarzenberg, the Austrian Prime Minister (in effect) was alleged to have said, “certainly, there must be mercy. But first, some hanging.”. You can’t just start a war, lose it, and expect everyone to act as if nothing had happened. So there was some punishment – and some mercy. In the long stream of history, one of the Hungarians condemned to die for rebellion was eventually pardoned and rose to be Prime Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; but there still had to be the hanging.
We need to get back to an understanding that a price has to be paid. There is nothing free. And the more disruptive the action, the higher the price. We have turned mercy into mere mushiness; a sentimental unwillingness to make sure that those who dare greatly also understand that failure has its very high cost. Our latest iteration of this is the BLM/Antifa riots and the spate of store lootings. Everyone wants these things to stop – but I might well be the only person in the United States who understands that if you want to be merciful, then some people will have to pay, and perhaps with their lives for the most egregious. And keep in mind that I oppose the death penalty! On the whole, don’t use it…but if we identify, say, twenty people who organized the BLM/Antifa riots which led to so many devastated lives…then four or five of the worst offenders being hung is merciful…because the survivors would never risk a repeat of it, and so we won’t have thousands of people with ruined lives because someone wanted to make a violent political point.
Human life – human civilization – is a precarious balance; everything has its mirror and it is in striking the balance between the two extremes that we find peace, freedom and safety. Tolerance balanced with intolerance. Order balanced with liberty. Justice balanced with mercy. But balanced. No element being allowed to run away with itself; everything kept in check by its opposite. We have lost that balance and so everything gets ever more insane. It is time to revive it.
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And keep in mind that I oppose the death penalty! On the whole, don’t use it…but if we identify, say, twenty people who organized the BLM/Antifa riots which led to so many devastated lives…then four or five of the worst offenders being hung is merciful…
That’s not opposition to the death penalty, that’s selective death penalty for the most egregious of crimes. I have no problem with the death penalty in concept however, as it is currently administered, there have been too many cases later proven to be false, usually due to things like circumstantial evidence, intentional false witness, negative sentiment driving politicians with a perceived need to satiate misplaced public fear & anger, egotistical need of DA’s & AG’s to “win” at all cost, etc. I’m guessing we’ve all heard of a number of cases of individuals on death row who were later vindicated. The evidence necessary to administer the death penalty should far more stringent than it currently appears to be.
That said, there are a considerable number of instances where the death penalty should be used but are not. How many people in prison have multiple life sentences, who feel no remorse whatsoever and continue their evil because they just don’t care? How many people in prison continue to run major criminal enterprises outside of prison? How many people were complicit in intentionally releasing biological (covid?) or chemical warfare on the general population? How many people are complicit in the highly destructive drug proliferation & human slavery – especially children and young women used for repeated prostitution? What about serial killers – especially those who gun down multiple innocent people like what we often see in schools, shopping malls, places of business, drive-by shootings, etc.? These and many other situations are where the death penalty would be most warranted.
For anyone who typically gets the seasonal flu shot, beware. It appears there is an attempt by some to include the experimental covid jab. The deception continues. Given it’s detrimental track record, it’s astounding anyone is still pushing the jab.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/british-columbia-health-officer-says-new-covid-shot-is-updated-seasonal-vaccine-not-a-booster/?utm_source=daily-usa-2023-08-09&utm_medium=email
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The study didn’t need to be de-bunked because it was nonsense on stilts to begin with; you can’t possibly know the political affiliations on that level with any amount of certainty.
What you’ve got there, forty, is just a bit of Propaganda which is designed to make liberals think they’re smart.
It worked like a charm.
On you.
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You can’t possibly know enough to make the connection. It simply isn’t possible.
Anyways – I got the first two shots and got Covid.
Other people I know didn’t get the shot and didn’t get Covid.
Its a f***ing virus; they are strange little beasts which act in bizarre manners…its why they’re so hard to nail down.
Bottom line: the vaccine, since I caught Covid, was entirely ineffective for me (vaccines, if they are vaccines, are almost sure-fire against infection). It doesn’t seem to have provided much benefit for anyone. Masks were stupid from the get-go. After the 15 days there was zero need for any further restrictions or lockdowns because we knew the mortality rate was, at worst, around 1% not quite Black Death, ya know?
You’re still acting like it wasn’t all a scam even with all the information they’ve admitted…this is kinda bizarre.
Kind of bizarre? That’s an understatement Talk about a lack of just basic curiosity and common sense. Truth be known, the Covid 19 vaccine is just an untested flu shot that has some lethal side effects.
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Are those the same experts who said the vaccine was safe and effective? Or the same experts who said masks stop viruses ? Or how the same experts who said the attic ice cap would be gone by 2013? Or the experts who said that Miami would be underwater by now? Lol, you and your “experts” get everything wrong.
“A virus no one has ever seen before”????? WTF??? It’s a flu virus sweetheart. It’s been around since man has existed. It was just weaponized by the Chinese.
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SARS-cov is a common flu virus, it comes around every year, and is responsible for hundred of thousand of deaths every year. It was just weaponized. But your naïveté is adorable.
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hahahahahaha before it gets deleted, please read Forty’s post re: excess death rates between Democrat and Republican voters. It’s such a great example of a fully propagandized mind. I have no idea what the point of the post is, if there is one. Does Forty have concern about Republican voters dying? Or is it saying that Democrats who conform to government mandates have a better chance of living? WTF?? Truly bizarre post.
Anyway, I am a big fan of the death penalty and believe we don’t use it enough. I have no idea why people like Ted Bundy, or any other spree or serial killer is not walked right out of the court room and straight to the gallows. And it should be public. We as a people should say to these reprobates that if you are this evil, your death will be swift and public. I would also start to execute MS13 members, and make that public as well. Zero redeeming qualities for this gang, time to eradicate. In fact the only killers I would spare from the death penalty, would be crimes of passion.
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LOL, I’m so thankful someone like you is concerned about me. What would Americans do without Democrats micro managing their lives hahahahahahaha. In related news,
Young people are more likely to die of heart attacks post-COVID, study finds. But why?
https://www.today.com/health/covid-heart-attack-young-people-rcna69903
So your position is that there’s no increase of myocarditis in young people related to the Covid vaccine? Is that right?
And you’re definitely a Democrat activist plant. No question about that. Your use of the word “whataboutism” just exposed you as a propagandist.
Here. This is your government’s results
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/clinical-considerations/myocarditis.html
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You’re dumber than I give you credit for. Th definition below might help you, but I’m not holding my breath. Now run along and go find out more bad things about Republicans
Causality (also called causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is partly dependent on the cause.
Has it? Just Covid 19?
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So you don’t want to answer that question do you?
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A virus that humans have never seen before
The SARS flu virus has been around since the beginning of time
More info on the “secret” Chinese bio lab in California. It appears as though it wasn’t much of a secret. Hard to believe we allow this. Speaking of death penalty … I would find the operators of this lab and immediately execute them.
Chinese-run biolab in California that was experimenting on deadly viruses was awarded over $500,000 in US TAXPAYER cash
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12374471/Chinese-run-biolab-California-experimenting-deadly-viruses-awarded-500-000-TAXPAYER-cash.html
Now that Trump has full subpoena power, the J6 committee is burying the evidence. We are in a cold civil war ….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/breaking-president-trump-reveals-dirty-jan-6-committee/
Here’s our “two party system”. Seems to be working well
Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged House Republicans NOT to impeach Joe Biden for his multi-million dollar foreign bribery and pay-for-play schemes.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/mitch-mcconnell-urges-house-republicans-oppose-joe-biden/
Maybe McConnell is playing chess instead of tic-tac-toe. I’m not a McConnell fan but have to admit his skill in strategizing. And don’t bother to put together a breathless indignant list of the times he has been wrong—-strategizing about enemy actions is never going to offer guaranteed results. But there has to be at least the understanding of the need to look down the line at the possible permutations of any action
I know why Mitch doesn’t want Joe impeached … it’s because he is as dirty as Joe. The corruption is unbelievable.
Joe DINED with oligarchs who paid Hunter: New bank records detail part of the $20 MILLION in foreign cash to Biden family – including $142,000 from Kazakh oligarch to president’s son that he used to buy Porsche after DC dinner
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12387113/The-20-MILLION-foreign-cash-Biden-family-Russian-oligarchs-3-5-million-Hunters-shell-company-142-000-Kazakh-oligarch-Joes-son-used-buy-Porsche-revealed-new-bank-records.html