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• Friday, December 30, 2005 02:30 PM

  O'Reilly Opposes The Death Penalty -- Because He Thinks It's Too LENIENT

  If you Google "Bill O'Reilly" "Death Penalty" (with quotes around the words just as I did here), you'll get links to a lot of websites. Here's something I found interesting, from a column he wrote right before Timothy McVeigh was executed:

  “So here's the better way. Killers, rapists, drug kingpins and terrorists should all be subjected to life in prison without parole in a federal work camp. This special prison system would be run military style and be located on federal land in Alaska. It would be in effect a gulag.

  Here the worst criminals in the country would be banished and forced to labor eight hours a day, six days a week in the harsh climate. They would be denied television, computers, exercise equipment (as if they'd need it) and most other "comfort" items. Their mail would be screened, and they would only be allowed a few visitors per year. If the criminal did not cooperate with the work detail, his food rations would be cut, and he would be placed in solitary confinement.

  Now let me ask you, is that not a worse punishment than Timothy McVeigh received? ... Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people but did not suffer a painful death. His lethal drip contained a sedative along with the poison. McVeigh would have suffered far more in a work camp.”

  I don't have any sympathy for mass murderer McVeigh, but I'm not taken in my O'Lielly, either. He trys to deny being a conservative so Faux News can keep spreading the lie of being "fair and balanced."

  —Charles
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