Maine Governor: "I think we ought to bring back the guillotine" for drug dealers
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the latest saga of the "Crazy Paul Lepage" series
[quote]AUGUSTA, Maine —In a radio interview expressing his support for the death penalty, Maine Gov. Paul LePage said with a laugh that he wants to use the guillotine to execute drug traffickers. The Governor's Office said Tuesday the remark on WVOM was just a joke to illustrate his support for tougher penalties for drug crimes.
During the interview, LePage laughed when he talked about using the guillotine to chop off the heads of drug dealers at public executions. "I think what we ought to do is bring the guillotine back," he said.[/quote]
for context, this dude has advocated for the death penalty for drug dealers before. so no, i think it's safe to say that this wasn't a joke lmao
If only someone could kidnap him and put him under a fake guillotine, see how hard he is advocating its use then.
Imagine being this angry over stuff that doesn't affect any one else
I mean unless he's talking about drug crime networks that do more than just sell drugs but still, guillotine comments are dumb.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;49615803]Imagine being this angry over stuff that doesn't affect any one else
I mean unless he's talking about drug crime networks that do more than just sell drugs but still, guillotine comments are dumb.[/QUOTE]
The thing is, make drugs legal, and those crime networks which rely on drugs will no longer have access to that revenue stream, and so then you'll be left with only the violent criminals who are engaging in stuff like human trafficking and that kind of thing, you know, things a violent criminal would be doing if prohibition didn't offer a quick and easy buck in the drug game.
And we should cut off the hands of thieves and blind perverts for peeping on other people.
Oh, wait....
get him the fuck out of office,.
Anyone who advocates for the death penalty is an idiot, but he's advocating killing people for non-violent crimes. What a dickhead.
[QUOTE=The Aussie;49616051][b]Anyone who advocates for the death penalty is an idiot,[/b]
but he's advocating killing people for non-violent crimes. What a dickhead.[/QUOTE]
What a joke.
[QUOTE=Jintei;49616245]What a joke.[/QUOTE]
You come from a country that still beats the shit out of people of a Rattan cane as "punishment," so i'll frame this in a way you'll like. What do you think is worse, being in prison for 5 years and then being killed, or forced to sit in a cell, possibly alone, for 60+ years?
I think bringing back the death penalty for rapists and pedophiles would sound more promising.
Um...
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49616019]get him the fuck out of office,.[/QUOTE]
I'll be so glad when he's out of office, the only time Maine is in the news is when he says something stupid :v:
[QUOTE=The Aussie;49616313]You come from a country that still beats the shit out of people of a Rattan cane as "punishment," so i'll frame this in a way you'll like. What do you think is worse, being in prison for 5 years and then being killed, or forced to sit in a cell, possibly alone, for 60+ years?[/QUOTE]
Sitting for 60 years that's for sure.
Beat the shit out of them my ass, we smacked them on the bum.
I find it funny how you people think that the death penalty is inhumane while locking someone up alone with little social contact for the rest of his life isn't.
[QUOTE=Jintei;49616769]Sitting for 60 years that's for sure.
Beat the shit out of them my ass, we smacked them on the bum.
I find it funny how you people think that the death penalty is inhumane while locking someone up alone with little social contact for the rest of his life isn't.[/QUOTE]
They're both inhumane as fuck.
[QUOTE=J Paul;49615907]The thing is, make drugs legal, and those crime networks which rely on drugs will no longer have access to that revenue stream, and so then you'll be left with only the violent criminals who are engaging in stuff like human trafficking and that kind of thing, you know, things a violent criminal would be doing if prohibition didn't offer a quick and easy buck in the drug game.[/QUOTE]
Those crime networks are ALREADY engaging in human trafficking, arms trading, and "that kind of thing." You don't think cartels diversify their interests? Cutting out the drug market would dramatically weaken their power base.
[QUOTE=Jintei;49616769]Sitting for 60 years that's for sure.
Beat the shit out of them my ass, we smacked them on the bum.
I find it funny how you people think that the death penalty is inhumane while locking someone up alone with little social contact for the rest of his life isn't.[/QUOTE]
"Smack them on the bum." That's a bit dishonest to phrase it like that, don't you think? [url=http://davidhousefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fay_caningex_01.jpg]A "smack" on the bum.[/url]
I said i'd frame it in a way that you'd like. Doesn't mean i support it. The "possibly alone" qualifier was due to some prisoners needing to be exasperated from the main prison population. I'm of the opinion that solitary confinement is psychologically damaging to some degree.
[QUOTE=LegndNikko;49615803]Imagine being this angry over stuff that doesn't affect any one else
I mean unless he's talking about drug crime networks that do more than just sell drugs but still, guillotine comments are dumb.[/QUOTE]
Death sentence for anything is pretty silly, but it's also silly to argue that dealing drugs does no harm. Drug addiction is very clearly a widespread problem, and drug dealers contribute to that problem.
To be honest, the guillotine is a more humane method of death penalty than lethal injection. Cheaper too
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;49617532]To be honest, the guillotine is a more humane method of death penalty than lethal injection. Cheaper too[/QUOTE]
It's less humane for the family and friends of the person being killed, for sure.
[editline]27th January 2016[/editline]
You could just as well argue that strapping a bunch of high explosives to the person and blowing him to bits is even more humane, but that's clearly a worse option.
[QUOTE=phygon;49617024]They're both inhumane as fuck.[/QUOTE]
There are some people that are just too dangerous to ever be released though.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;49617532]To be honest, the guillotine is a more humane method of death penalty than lethal injection. Cheaper too[/QUOTE]
it's also a primitive way of doing it, and messy as fuck
like the entire point of the guillotine is shock value
pretty sure scaring people out of crime isn't going to work
What happened to no cruel and unusual punishment?
Holy fug, people really want to see a return in the more down to earth methods of killing people. Fuck subtelty, lets just go off with their heads or fill their chest full of lead!
Next thing you know will be hearing people talking about how we need to bring back the gladiatorial arenas. Which in all honesty, would be pretty awesome.
[QUOTE=J Paul;49615907]The thing is, make drugs legal, and those crime networks which rely on drugs will no longer have access to that revenue stream, and so then you'll be left with only the violent criminals who are engaging in stuff like human trafficking and that kind of thing, you know, things a violent criminal would be doing if prohibition didn't offer a quick and easy buck in the drug game.[/QUOTE]
You're implying crime networks who sell drugs only work with drugs and don't bother with any other illegal trade.
Also, crime networks have a grasp on legal activities as well. Making drugs legal isn't going to suppress them entirely, they'll just use (now legal) shops as fronts and launder money through them, without necessarily decreasing their activities.
[editline]28th January 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=TheNerdPest14;49619041]What happened to no cruel and unusual punishment?[/QUOTE]
The guillotine was actually invented and popularized to remove the supplice part of executions. Before it was around decapitation involved a length of time where whoever was to be killed would be paraded around, hit by people, thrown stuff at and such, before finally getting set on the block and killed by a swing that could easily miss.
Now that we have firearms that can just burst someone's heart the need for the guillotine is all but gone but saying it's designed to be cruel is kind of defeating the purpose of the machine to begin with.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49619506]Holy fug, people really want to see a return in the more down to earth methods of killing people. Fuck subtelty, lets just go off with their heads or fill their chest full of lead!
Next thing you know will be hearing people talking about how we need to bring back the gladiatorial arenas. Which in all honesty, would be pretty awesome.[/QUOTE]
If executions can't be avoided a firing line is honestly the best way to do it. Lethal injection doesn't work as well as intended, but six bullets to the heart is a guaranteed instant death.
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;49617532]To be honest, the guillotine is a more humane method of death penalty than lethal injection. Cheaper too[/QUOTE]
I think some medical expert would disagree.
[editline]28th January 2016[/editline]
I mean, I don't know how humane lethal injection truly is; meaning any discomfort/pain during the few separate cold vials full of drugs being pumped inside you, or however it works.
Sounds kinda nasty, but can death penalty ever be humane? Like, the concept in itself, or the method? People often like to get imaginative with the methods of execution, which is pretty fucked.
[QUOTE=Jintei;49616245]What a joke.[/QUOTE]
How is it a joke? Oh right your country kills anyone that posses 500 grams of weed, or making/growing various drugs, lovely country.
Isn't this the same person who was talking about people named "D-Money" coming into his state to get people addicted to heroine and have sex with young white women?
Sounds like the premise of a Stephen King story.
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