Would you take part in a firing squad?

[Skyrad 0]

So Gary Gilter the former singer has been arested in Vietnam for alledgedly having sex with two children one of whom was 12yrs old. If found guilty he could face the firing squad.
If asked to take part in such a firing squad would you? Could you? Personaly I would.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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[rwieder 0]

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If asked to take part in such a firing squad would you? Could you?

Well when civic duty calls one must do their part! To answer your question an emphatic YES. No problem. I have jury duty every now and then. I pay my taxes, i vote. I even take it to work on time. So i wouldn't have a problem with this at all.

-Richard-
"You're Holding The Rope And I'm Taking The Fall"

[shropshire 0]

For his music alone, he deserves lead


But seriously, I voted No. I dont believe in capital punishment.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Skyrad 0]

Wana be in my gang? not bloody likely freak!

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[shropshire 0]

Agh, come on, come on......

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Channman 2]

Yea, but I would have to be blind folded. Put the rifle in my hands and spin me three times, POWW right in the heart, lucky shot, I did'nt get someone who may have been innocent did I?

[miked10270 0]

I am completely against capital punishment on principle!

That said, I do feel that imprisonment for life is richly deserved.

Perhaps during this imprisonment he could rehabilitate himself through his skills as a showman, making a contribution to Vietnam's tourist industry & commemorating it's history.

I WOULD pay to see Gary Glitter playing the part of a captured US Pilot circa 1970 in a Tiger Cage as part of a "living history" project.

I'd even pay extra if I get to see Vietnamese kids poke the sick fat git with some sharpened bamboo!

Mike.

Taking the piss out of the FrenchAmericans since before it was fashionable.

Prenait la pisse hors du FrançaisCanadiens méridionaux puisqu'avant lui à la mode.

[TheBachelor 5]

It seems that only 2 or 3 states still "offer" death by firing squad.

One interesting trivia fact about firing squads (I think all are done this way, but I haven't researched it extensively.) There are usually 5 to 7 shooters, and all except one has a "live" bullet, while one of them has a blank. They feel that if one of the shooters has remorse in later years, s)he may find some comfort in believing that they had a blank.

There are battered women? I've been eating 'em plain all of these years...

[artistcalledian 0]

i once saw Garry Glitter play at Nottingham's Rock City top gig !

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drive it like you stole it and f*ck the police

[highfly 0]

I do belive he would "feel" it more being locked up for the rest of his days.
Killing him would serve no purpose.
Well it would serve one and thats for his record label.
As we all know you make more cash when your'e dead from sales of

"The greatest Hits of Gary Glitter.

Includes

1 Do you wanna be in my Gang bang?
2 Im the leader of my gang bang
3 Baby please dont go ...... and tell the police
4 I pay you and you love me back
5 Doing it alnight with the boys
6 You belong to me for at least a week seen as though I paid you 200 dong
7 Oh yes your beautiful , now suck my cock
8 Hello hello Im back again after doing time in Vietnam (Remix)
9 Remember me in another way please
10 I didnt know I loved you till I saw you rock on my roll

And many many More"

www.myspace.com/durtymac

[purnell 0]

It depends on which end of the firing squad

[Ragnarok 0]

Sure, I would - won't be the first time I shot someone. Kinda gives me a hard on. Is that sick?

But they would have to be Iraqi and begging for mercy, crying and pissing their pants.......

Fucking insurgents.......

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[waltappel 1]

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So Gary Gilter the former singer has been arested in Vietnam for alledgedly having sex with two children one of whom was 12yrs old. If found guilty he could face the firing squad.
If asked to take part in such a firing squad would you? Could you? Personaly I would.

I think the "easy" answer for many is "yes" because the act is so repulsive, but it depends on the circumstances. In the case of a kidnapping/rape for example, I'd be more than willing to torture the son of a bitch to death.

Let's take a more likely scenario. Let's say he PAID to have sex with those boys. In that case, I don't think it's so much Gary Glitter that deserves death as I do the scumbag(s) doing the pimping.

What if the boys were orphans living on the street pimping themselves out as a matter of survival? Doesn't make Gary Glitter into any kind of fine human being, but it's nowhere near the kidnap/rape or adult pimping children scenario.

I can't say whether I would be willing to be part of the firing squad for any case, including this one, without knowing enough detail about the case to apply my own personal judgement.

I don't think I would be willing to hand out the death penalty without the ability to exercise my own judgement.

Thoughts?

Walt

[Nightingale 0]

No. I don't support the death penalty.

[Tonto 1]

"Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction."

Clearly these shooters don't know this. Recoil is a fact of shooting. Blanks don't recoil.

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[1969912 0]

Yes, if it were the right kind of criminal and I was guaranteed to have the live bullet.

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

[nacmacfeegle 0]

What sort of gun would I get?

"No. I don't support the death penalty. "
Who said anything about killing the nonce?

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[Slink2 0]

Ohh please, the fruitloops on this board would only shoot....well fruitloops!

[mr2mk1g 10]

So now he's added another country to his list.... UK, Cambodia, Cuba... now Vietnam.

Interesting trivia I found out the other day. The brother of a friend of mine was the guy who found the kiddy porn on his laptop a couple of years ago. He was working at PC world and the dumb twat took the thing into their service desk to get a fault fixed.

I'll also repeat this from a previous post of mine:

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I know of one lot of people who played Gary Glitter's music. See Gary was put in Horfield Prison in Bristol... that's a few miles away from my home... just down the road from the pub I call my local.

It was well known round here that on Gary's first night in the clink the whole prison sang "you wanna be in my cell, my cell, my cell, you wanna be in my cell, my celllll?"

[kallend 2,106]

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"Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction."

Clearly these shooters don't know this. Recoil is a fact of shooting. Blanks don't recoil.

t

Until Goddard proved otherwise, a lot of scientists believed rockets would not work in a vacuum because "they have nothing to push against". Misconception.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[popsjumper 2]

Yes, I'd participate in a firing squad....why not? the Human Resources departments do it all the time....

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[Tonto 1]

I'm not a scientist and my knowledge of physics is limited to a D in high school... but if you watch movies, or especially TV, you'll notice people being able to unload a lot of ammo with no recoil. When I shoot a weapon myself, I notice it wants to jump around quite a bit.

I can understand how rockets work. The burning gasses go one way, the rocket goes the other way. I don't see why they would need something to push against, and I don't see how "Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction." requires some thing to push against.

I think we agree though. I think..

(You also get the Tonto "Jumps = Posts" award, you lucky devil!)

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[kallend 2,106]

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I'm not a scientist and my knowledge of physics is limited to a D in high school... but if you watch movies, or especially TV, you'll notice people being able to unload a lot of ammo with no recoil. When I shoot a weapon myself, I notice it wants to jump around quite a bit.

I can understand how rockets work. The burning gasses go one way, the rocket goes the other way. I don't see why they would need something to push against, and I don't see how "Every reaction has an equal and opposite reaction." requires some thing to push against.

I think we agree though. I think..

(You also get the Tonto "Jumps = Posts" award, you lucky devil!)

t

I don't disagree that a regular blank has little recoil while making a satisfactory noise. Has to do with the momentum of (wad + gases) coming out of the gun barrel. However, that has a lot to do with the makeup of the blank. I don't know that anybody would ever want one, but it is certainly possible to make a blank with a recoil.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[pirana 0]

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For his music alone, he deserves lead


But seriously, I voted No. I dont believe in capital punishment.

It does exist.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[shropshire 0]

surely not- who would be so uncivilised?

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome