Justice Antonin Scalia told the BBC that "smacking someone in the face" could be justified if there was an imminent threat.More...
"You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good'," he said in a rare interview.
He also accused Europe of being self-righteous over the death penalty.
I loath these Opus Dei motherfuckers...
I hope the wound from his cilice rapped around his pecker gets an infection upon his next flogging.. Praise Jesus!
*"Blessed be pain. Loved be pain. Sanctified be pain. . . Glorified be pain!" (The Way, 208)
"No ideal becomes a reality without sacrifice. Deny yourself. It is so beautiful to be a victim!" (The Way, 175)
* Relevant Quotes from the writings of Opus Dei Founder, Josemaria Escriva
Addendum:
Tangentially related...
Addendum II:
In a move Classic of counterpropaganda and using cheeky meme-reversal, sure to give some an aneurysm the Bush Administration compares 9/11 trials to Nuremberg
WASHINGTON -
The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 terror attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
These jackals revel in their hubris . They are so clever in their arrogance as to be brilliant. In your face and taunting, as to be burlesque. Hows that for your Human Rights Report...
my vitriol cup runneth over...I stand in awe of such a Rovian move, without Rove; and you thought the boyking was a lame duck...lmao! Bravo! Master stroke!
WHACK!
Thank-you mam', may I have another?
HAHAHAHA... It's not the laughter and simultaneous cathartic tears that bothers me, it's my inability to stop...
"I was always astonished at the extraordinary good nature and lack of malice with which men who had been flogged spoke of their beatings and of those who had inflicted them..."~Dostoevsky (Memoirs From the House of the Dead)