<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 2:37 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><b> </b></span><b>…Also, you do know that the states broadcasting judicial murder are Iran, Saudi and now…</b></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u></u> </b><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I disapprove of broadcasting that.</i></font></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's nice, but it's a pity you don't disapprove of it enough to also disapprove of Donald Trump.<span class="gmail_default"> </span> </b></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">><i>…Please explain how this is handled by your constitution…</i></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>According to the US Constitution punishments can be cruel, or they can be unusual, they just can't be both cruel AND unusual. So it would be <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">C</span>onstitutional to burn somebody alive as long as you didn't broadcast it because that would be unusual, and it would be <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">C</span>onstitutional to broadcast a beheading because if done properly death would be quick. </b></font><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It's interesting<span class="gmail_default"> that Republicans are in the habit of accusing Democrats of advocating </span></b><span style="background-color:transparent"><b>Sharia law</b><span class="gmail_default"><b>, but until a Republican president decided to join the club only two countries in the world were in the habit of broadcasting executions, Afghanistan and Iran.</b> </span></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span class="gmail_default"><b>John K Clark</b></span></span></font></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br>
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