A New Vote on Death?

Next week my fellow blogger Guido Fawkes is launching an online petition
to get the death penalty restored. Or at least get MP's voting on it once again and debating, thus bringing it to peoples attention. Will it do any good? Will we as a whole suddenly snap out of our forgiving mindset regarding murderers and instantly decide to abandon soft prison sentences in exchange for the return of the noose? I sincerely doubt it as good fortune is in short supply these days (unless you happen to be a criminal) but it does prove that hopes of a death penalty haven't disappeared.
You see when the lily hearts finally grow up and throw away their liberal all-life-deserves-a-second-chance fad, we will bring back capital punishment like I have often told you we would. To be against the death penalty is a fairly new 'trend' which will take a few years to shake off as all nasty viruses do. Its not unusual for countries to test new waters and try different approaches to punishment for example but these tests will be abandoned when it is seen that nothing good comes of it.

Killers: walk this way

And seriously, what good can ever become of softening prison sentences for violent crimes? This new petition sees to employ the death penalty for those who murder children and police officers. Is there any other suitable punishment for those who commit such crimes? A sane, right minded person would think not.
Personally I would bring the the hemp rope back for all murders (even rape and drunk driving which results in death) but at least this would be sailing in the right direction.
Anyway im very happy for this petition because at least I know im not the only one thinking about it. You see when something is truly dead, like for instance hanging, drawing & quartering, then it remains so. But hope for the death penalty is still alive in the UK. And as long as it is, it could always come back to the table.

A Grenade In A Floral Display

If you want to have a heated debate (or fancy starting an online flame war) try these subjects on for size ~

1. Death Penalty

Always a good topic and never fails to send the petticoats flying. (Usually by those who are against it.) This topic (much like the one below) is almost guaranteed to start spiteful and personal insults (with few, not all) on both sides when the debate is over with. It will never be resolved so the human mind reverts to pulling monkey gibs at the opponents. Jolly good fun it is too, when kept in check.

2. Fox Hunting

This gem never fails to get the party (soon to be riot) started. This subject attracts perhaps the most frightening people (even more so than death row groupies.) I have personally heard vegetarians and hunt saboteurs admit that when they see people buying meat in supermarkets, that they would like to kill them. Yes you read that correct dear reader. I know its a minority and most veggies are not like this but still, that tiny group among the sane ones is pretty scary.

3. God & Religion

These should really be at the top of the list seeing as religion could be blamed for the most carnage and destruction that has befallen the world. 'My God is better than your God!' Shout some. 'There is NO God!' Yell others. Result? World in near ruin.
It is for this precise reason that I believe God to be a freshwater Pike with a stammer called William.

4. Abortion

Fancy a scrap? Abortion is pretty handy with its 'fists'. Occasionally this subject gets thrown into the death penalty debate and things really get steamy. Perhaps steamy is not the right word to describe the chaos. Try CRITICAL with a smidge of MELTDOWN on the side.
Humans are oh so much fun when they bicker.

5. World War II

A lighter one to complete the top five. Mention the second big dust up that was WWII to some Americans and they will insist they won it all on their lonesome; they saved Britain from invasion, won in North Africa and single handedly saved Europe. Only they didn't and to be fair most Americans know that it was combined courage, brilliance and heroism that saved the day. But its funny to watch those small few who think otherwise, puff out their chests like horny roosters in an attempt to play the ultimate superhero.
My personal theory why this happens is that the United States is still a young country without the ancient and medieval history of most others, and therefore needs to try and claim huge victories/historical events to be on the same 'level' as the rest. But like I say, its only a few and this subject isn't nearly as explosive as the previous ones.

Close but no cigar ~

Sports teams

These are quite ofen vulgar affairs and can quickly dissolve into racist attacks (usually amongst the football crowd.) Best avoided.

Racism

The knuckle draggers paradise! Thankfully due to most people growing up and mending their warped attitued toward peoples of different coloured skin and cultures, this subject really belongs in the past and is rarely (if ever) argued among civil human beings. Proof that humans are able to evolve when they want to.