I definitely should have been a little more precise in my metaphor for my disgust with and loathing for these people. I apologize. I'm not advocating for violence, or even for the death penalty. And it's unclear to me if that is even now an option for a conviction for treason, since a quick G search gives conflicting info from different sources, and I wanted to respond to this quickly, so haven't taken the time to sort it out.
Actually, I'm not in favor of capital punishment for anything for a number of reasons, but not because I'm some soft-on-crime bleeding heart do-gooder. In fact, my reasons can pretty much be boiled down to the opposite...capital punishment is letting the perpetrator of such heinous crimes that seem to warrant it off too easily. When the trap is sprung, or the switch thrown or the plunger depressed, the punishment is over. Much more appropriate to deprive the criminal of his most precious possession short of life itself - his freedom - for as long as possible, that being the rest of his life. And I'm not talkin' Club Fed here. I feel those convicted of something that instinctively or intuitively would seem to merit a death warrant should do the hardest time there is for the rest of their natural life, short only of the line of cruel and unusual.
So, let me offer a different metaphor: You'd have to fight me to be first in line to throw away the key. Sorry, just couldn't help myself.
Hope I've now made my position clear on this. Again, apologies for letting the strength of my feelings weaken my writing about this subject. I'm not happy with myself when I do that, and try to guard against it. Not always successful, so thanks for speaking up. I wouldn't want my mistake to reflect badly upon your own opinion of things in some guilt by association thing, since I was saying that we seemed to be in agreement on the nefarious and even heinous nature of these people's actions.
I don't wish for hangings, shipmate.
I definitely should have been a little more precise in my metaphor for my disgust with and loathing for these people. I apologize. I'm not advocating for violence, or even for the death penalty. And it's unclear to me if that is even now an option for a conviction for treason, since a quick G search gives conflicting info from different sources, and I wanted to respond to this quickly, so haven't taken the time to sort it out.
Actually, I'm not in favor of capital punishment for anything for a number of reasons, but not because I'm some soft-on-crime bleeding heart do-gooder. In fact, my reasons can pretty much be boiled down to the opposite...capital punishment is letting the perpetrator of such heinous crimes that seem to warrant it off too easily. When the trap is sprung, or the switch thrown or the plunger depressed, the punishment is over. Much more appropriate to deprive the criminal of his most precious possession short of life itself - his freedom - for as long as possible, that being the rest of his life. And I'm not talkin' Club Fed here. I feel those convicted of something that instinctively or intuitively would seem to merit a death warrant should do the hardest time there is for the rest of their natural life, short only of the line of cruel and unusual.
So, let me offer a different metaphor: You'd have to fight me to be first in line to throw away the key. Sorry, just couldn't help myself.
Hope I've now made my position clear on this. Again, apologies for letting the strength of my feelings weaken my writing about this subject. I'm not happy with myself when I do that, and try to guard against it. Not always successful, so thanks for speaking up. I wouldn't want my mistake to reflect badly upon your own opinion of things in some guilt by association thing, since I was saying that we seemed to be in agreement on the nefarious and even heinous nature of these people's actions.
Problem = None. I completely agree.
Re: Navy Chief. TYFYS. Genuinely appreciated.