by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Yesterday in this space I commented on some of Donald Trump’s musings with friends and associates regarding “classic” forms of capital punishment (hanging, firing squads, and even use of the guillotine) as ways to deter crime. I also mentioned that Trump had sought input from associates on the idea of videotaping executions up through the point of death, and then sharing those tapes with the public as a way of promoting his criminal justice ideas. I noted that the idea bore a strong resemblance to “snuff films.”
Yesterday’s blog posting was based on reporting in the current on-line issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.
And while much of what Donald Trump seems to regard as preventive measures are seen by others as wantonly sadistic, he is perhaps just a bush-league player when it comes to responding to what he deems to be criminal activity.
In the United States we usually try to buttress what constitutes crime and punishment through a system of courts and laws – a concept generally referred to as “due process.” But that is not how the rest of the world necessarily operates.
On December 27, 2022, I posted a blog entry in this space which told of some Russian dissidents and oligarchs who seemed to be the victims of state-sponsored executions and attempted state-sponsored executions without any form of due process. That piece focused on a half-dozen or so Russians and others who had been poisoned, most of them lethally – appartently by agents of the Russian government. That posting also told of eight individuals who had become irritants to the Russian government and had subsequently fallen to their deaths from high windows of very tall buildings.
Yesterday internet news sources reported that another prominent Russian had fallen to her death from a window on the 16th floor of a high-rise building in St Petersburg, Russia. Marina Yankina, age 58, the head of the financial department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, fell 160 feet to her death. She was a key financial architect for Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Perhaps filming these frequent flyers would act as a deterrent to behaviors which offend the Russian government. Maybe instead of “snuff films,” they would usher in a new sub-genre of “splat films!”
Or maybe it will take updated heating and air-conditioning systems to keep those deadly windows closed and locked!
Just sayin’ . . .
Yesterday’s blog posting was based on reporting in the current on-line issue of Rolling Stone Magazine.
And while much of what Donald Trump seems to regard as preventive measures are seen by others as wantonly sadistic, he is perhaps just a bush-league player when it comes to responding to what he deems to be criminal activity.
In the United States we usually try to buttress what constitutes crime and punishment through a system of courts and laws – a concept generally referred to as “due process.” But that is not how the rest of the world necessarily operates.
On December 27, 2022, I posted a blog entry in this space which told of some Russian dissidents and oligarchs who seemed to be the victims of state-sponsored executions and attempted state-sponsored executions without any form of due process. That piece focused on a half-dozen or so Russians and others who had been poisoned, most of them lethally – appartently by agents of the Russian government. That posting also told of eight individuals who had become irritants to the Russian government and had subsequently fallen to their deaths from high windows of very tall buildings.
Yesterday internet news sources reported that another prominent Russian had fallen to her death from a window on the 16th floor of a high-rise building in St Petersburg, Russia. Marina Yankina, age 58, the head of the financial department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, fell 160 feet to her death. She was a key financial architect for Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Perhaps filming these frequent flyers would act as a deterrent to behaviors which offend the Russian government. Maybe instead of “snuff films,” they would usher in a new sub-genre of “splat films!”
Or maybe it will take updated heating and air-conditioning systems to keep those deadly windows closed and locked!
Just sayin’ . . .
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