Re: [DL] Arguments against lynch law [OT[

["Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu>]

> >Well, if he's that rotten, convince your players that lynching is too
>  >good for him.  A quick death instead pf a long­term punishment that
>  >would haunt him all the more.
>
> All together now. . .
>
> "Hangin's too good for 'im!
> BURNIN's too good for 'im!
> He should be torn into ITSY BITSY pieces and then BURIED ALIVE!!!!
> Sternn!!!
> STERNN!!!!
> I'm going KILL you!"

Well, there *IS* that, or if you've seen Cannibal! the Musical there's the
final song of the movie:

Hang the bastard, hang him high!
Hoist his body to the sky!
It's as nice as a day can be,
Won't you come to the hanging with me?
Hang the bastard, hang him well,
Send his sorry sould to Hell!
When his neckbone snaps we'll know
That the cannibal won't be killin' anymore.

I'll skip the rest of it. Just watch the movie, dammit!  It's Trey and Matt,
so if you like South Park-ish juvenile humor, there's plenty of it in that
movie!  It's based on the story of Alferd (not Alfred) Packer, the only man
in United States history to ever be convicted ofthe criminal charge of
canniblism.  Dahmer got murder, as did one guy in the Donner party, but none
of them were actually charged with cannibalism.

Nick Zachariasen
Editor Emeritus
Trojan Times