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The real war on Christmas
It's actually being waged by Bill O'Reilly and other right-wingers. I should know: It almost ruined my family's holiday dinner.
By Wil Wheaton [2005-12-22]
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  • 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
    Friday, December 30, 2005 02:30 PM

  • From what planet Wil Wheaton?

    My bad for going ad hominem but the article writer Wil Wheaton is the same dude who played Wesley on Star Trek Next Generation. Relevance, Counsel? None really. But it begs the Bill O'Reilly question. Gee shucks I was playing poker in Las Vegas with a big lot of other celebrity hacks, and my dad approved of this. But when I made a comment about the death penalty and Tookie Williams, my honkey daddy o mine mowed me down in front of my wife and kids! At Christmas...Otherwise he makes a good point and sincere account.

    I'm glad the holidays are coming to an end. People can get back to wage-earning and stockpiling weapons in our One Nation Under Canada.

    -- babyboomerang
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    Sunday, January 1, 2006 03:45 PM

  • Thanks Babyboomerang

    For filling in the details. Here and elsewhere. It's really interesting to find out the extra tidbits about who these writers are, and where they are coming from!

    -- A Single Man Speaks
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    Sunday, January 1, 2006 06:14 PM

  • Such a typical Liberal response to disagreement, its hard not to laugh.

    The Death Penalty does not serve as a deterrent? Tookie is deterred for good. Furthermore he is absolutely permanently deterred from being a star to thousands of leftists. The fact that he was a celebrity was obscene, whether or not he was in prison. He deserved to die. Furthermore Wil is wrong that the death penalty does not deter capital crimes.

    http://www.papadoc.net/2005/12/one-of-reason-that-i-enjoy-captain-eds.html

    Btw Wil is wrong about the Saddam 9/11 linkage as well. Sheesh maybe he should start listening to talk radio? Or reading my site. heh.

    Pierre Legrand

    -- Pierre Legrand
    Saturday, January 7, 2006 11:34 PM

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