When the former special counsel insisted he had not gone to see the Atlanta **Hawks **play in that time period, Mr. Schmitt declared, “I think you’ve already perjured yourself,” and called Mr. Smith a “dirtbag.”
The accusation appeared to unravel almost immediately.
Invited to respond by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, Mr. Smith said he had, in fact, attended a basketball game on that day, but it was to see the Iowa **Hawkeyes **at the University of Maryland. That night, Caitlin Clark, the star point guard who now plays in the W.N.B.A., scored 38 points and had 12 assists.
The guys sitting behind Senator Schmitt are two lawyers who work for him. He also likely had his staff vet the claims. Senator Schmitt was really mad at being called out on his lies.
Archived copy of the article — archive.is isn’t exactly a good actor, but they don’t require registration.
What a fucking world. The people actually trying to do their job when it comes to investigating actual criminal activity are now the ones being accused of that being a crime.
So many conservatives need to go to prison. For long sentences.
Why waste resources on feeding and housing them. Put them through a chipper shredder and fertilize somewhere with them.
Dehumanizing humans is what they, the bad guys, the losers, do.
They deserve as dignified a life as one can live within the confines of life sentence in a prison cell, in a civil society.
You can hate what they’ve done more than anyone, but you can’t disagree, lest you be one of them. The bad guys. The losers.
Humanity prevails within humans always. There’s a reason for it that the bad guys don’t seem to get. It’s the same reason you’re being downvoted.
Big “the pen is mightier than the sword” energy here…
You can kill a man many ways with a good pen. It’s easier to hide, can quickly be disposed of, and harder to trace. The pen is very utilitarian.
I believe the “give peace a chance” is naive at best. The true irony is that the intellectuals and academics, who are usually advocates for non-violence, are historically the first to go.
Get it over quickly, publicly, and don’t leave anyone alive as Antony demonstrated with Julius Caesar’s assassination.
An example from our relatives - https://www.raffriff.com/blog/2022/12/alpha-male-baboons/
The American revolution actually included a lot of what would be considered “crimes against humanity” with the more “benign” being tar and feathering targets.
A recent example is an attributed source of annual “Pride fest” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
Last thing is a double point. As a child after an altercation with three bullies vs me where I fractured the leader’s skull, broke the nose of another, and injured the spleen of the third I was both never bullied again and actually had a really good life at school. Further, given that experience versus non-evidence based arguments to the contrary, I will never believe “talking things out” can work.
Humans are animals, violent ones at that, and submission doesn’t have a good history of with a good outcome.
I would say that imprisoning someone for life, regardless of the level of comfort, is no light sentence. Your old life is gone. The people you cared about, most will essentially or actually disappear from your life.
Killing is not the only meaningful way to punish someone, and even fracturing a skull is not necessarily a greater harm to someone than imprisoning then for life.
Nixon died an old man in his bed.
Practically everyone in government involved with the Iran Contra affair are free citizens or lived most of their lives in freedom.
The Jan6 crowd battered and tortured multiple police officers protecting the capital. I believe on committed suicide later and another died of health conditions strongly correlated to their abuse.
Imprisonment was really effective as a means for punishing those responsible \s
Now depending on how things go, if the false flag national emergency is not stopped prior to the midterms, all of the people raping women and children in the ICE detention facilities in Florida & New Orleans, murdering people for the crime of existing at the wrong time & place, and who knows what else will go unpunished.
Imprisonment as a means to an end doesn’t work.
Because that’s a conservative response to the problem. I’m not about to further normalize their death cult any more than they already have. They also have human dignity, they’ve just forfeited their right to remain free among the general population.
Also, executions cost more than life imprisonment. This is known. Your argument is just as spurious as when the fash makes it.