[PEN-L:3916] Re: Re: death penalty for racist beast

["Seth Sandronsky" <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

I think that our censure of the racist killer should also include
censure of the socio-economic system that produced him.  What say you?

Seth Sandronsky
ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx


>Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:05:20 -0800
>To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [PEN-L:3915] Re: death penalty for racist beast
>Reply-To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>I wrote: >>is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because
(1)
>if anyone does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks)
>deserve the death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to
the
>death penalty?<<
>
>Bill Lear writes: >Pre-meditated murder is wrong.  Nobody deserves the
>death penalty, because the death penalty --- premeditated murder
carried
>out by the state --- is a barbaric act with no moral justification
>whatsoever. Why, retaining your humanity, and rising above the braying
for
>blood, should you feel queasy?<
>
>because it sure looks like J.W. King deserves what he's getting. It's
like
>the old mindgame: if you had the opportunity to assasinate Hitler in
1922
>(or 1932), would you?
>
>In the same thread, Wojtek writes: >I have absolutely no problems with
>exterminating the nazi vermin, by legal
>means or otherwise.<
>
>I hope that you no longer apply terms like "nazi vermin" to people like
the
>ex-governor of California (and bad guy) Pete Wilson.
>
>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
>


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