They’re so very, very wrong. Because they can’t say with absolute certainty that their victims are really the ones who caused the problem. But you have to admit, they’re all about accountability at the top.
From the New York Times:
Now, I’m not wishing death on anyone, since we of course are not following China’s lead any time soon (that I know of – I never would have expected the US government to sanction torture, so I never can be absolutely sure what those crazy morons in the Bush Admin. will do next.)
But if we DID follow China’s lead, who would be first?
Cause y’know, I really don’t think Brownie actually did a heck of a job in New Orleans. Au contraire.
And Alberto Gonzalez has apparently done his best to make the Bush Justice Department a politicized laughingstock.
If I were a Chinese-style bureaucrat, I’d have a little list, of people who would never be missed …
I think this is the tip of the iceberg, this is the second execution in the last couple of months for similar sort of things. I have been saying for a while that I expect somebody to get executed over the pet food thing as well.
I think that over the next year or so, there is going to be a small flurry of executions of people who shirked their inspections duties or knowingly sold tainted items to foreign countries.
What is the Chinese method of execution?
Firing squad, pistol in the back of the head, lethal injection, injection of tainted drugs, ingestion of wheat gluten?
Perhaps so, but again, it’s refreshing for the sacrifice to the PR gods to be at the top of the food chain (cf “Good job, Brownie”) rather than the other end (e.g. Lynndie England).
I don’t know about US leaders, but we just went live with a new Oracle Financials package and we’re deciding which pesky users to execute. One of our managers was inspired by the Chinese model.
I’ve read that they shoot someone in the head and then charge the family for the bullet.
For what it’s worth, this idea doesn’t immediately repulse me. People who have the power to approve bad drugs and such could inflict problems and even death on a whole lot of people - I don’t see why they couldn’t be tried and executed if it was shown that they were bribed to do something unsafe knowingly. I would require a burden of proof on par with a murder trial, though, and I doubt the Chinese justice system is reliable.
It’s nice, but I still like the NKVD’s photo booth. Prisoner is seated in the booth and told they are taking his mug shot. NKVD agent pushes his TT-31 through the hole in the back (conveniently back-of-skull high) and pulls the trigger. Prisoner is dropped to the Pile-O-Corpses below, to be buried by forced labor. Built-in water jets clean off the bits of blood, brain, and bone (the 7.62 mm Tokarev is way too powerful for cleanliness) and the seat is reset for the next picture.
I think we should be glad the Chinese are using such an inefficient, even modern, method. As nice as the bus is, you can’t get any throughput, and it shows they don’t need to be efficent. The Nazis realized early on that, with millions of people to kill, they needed to improve their efficiency so they gave up on individual killings. Sure, the Hutu got some amazing throughput with only machetes, but labor is cheap in Rwanda.
