Now is the time to talk about abolishing the death penalty.

genius

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Fri Apr-01-05 07:42 PM
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Now is the time to talk about abolishing the death penalty.

Jeb wants to kill a mentally ill man. Bush was the Texascutioner. The Democrats can begin to re-gain the high ground by calling for an abolition of the death penalty.

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politicaholic

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Fri Apr-01-05 07:47 PM
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1. Hear Hear!

I second that motion!

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SmokingJacket

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Fri Apr-01-05 07:48 PM
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2. Culture of Life...

I mean, if they're going to use the term...

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katsy

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Fri Apr-01-05 08:43 PM
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3. Can't we wait until after the 2006 elections?

Maybe we'll get lucky and regain the senate and or house.

Maybe bush will be impeached.

Oh well, I can dream can't I?

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me b zola

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Fri Apr-01-05 08:57 PM
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4. Why wait until after the elections?

Television add: Man speaking about how he was on death row...until he was fortunate enough to have someone fight in court to prove his innocents. Then, cut to dubya saying "we must always err on the side of life".

We must articulate our stances and be proud of them..TRADITIONAL DEMOCRATIC VALUES ARE AMERICAN VALUES.

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katsy

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Fri Apr-01-05 09:23 PM
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6. I should have inserted...

:sarcasm:

Although I would love it if bush were impeached, followed by a conviction for an illegal war... and then zapped.

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Grooner Five

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Fri Apr-01-05 09:21 PM
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5. In the immediate wake...

...of the Schiavo debate, I think it would be a pretty crappy move.

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leyton

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Fri Apr-01-05 10:20 PM
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7. I don't think the death penalty should be abolished.

Edited on Fri Apr-01-05 10:22 PM by leyton

I think it should definitely be used far less often, and only when there is the best proof possible (plenty of evidence, especially DNA, etc.) and in the most gruesome cases. I'm not talking about ordinary murder cases, I'm talking about the ones like the guy who opened fire in the courtroom in Georgia. In cases such as those, the death penalty is appropriate.

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genius

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Fri Apr-01-05 11:40 PM
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10. Are Americans less deserving of live than the citizens of civilized

nations that have abolished it. The world has left us in the dark ages with our barbaric practice of killing Americans through the death penalty.

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leyton

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Sat Apr-02-05 10:15 AM
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11. I don't measure American civilization against other nations.

Just because other nations do or don't do something doesn't mean we should follow suit.

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Lexingtonian

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Fri Apr-01-05 10:34 PM
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8. naw- just increasingly rare

No need to waste the time and effort. The courts are slowly caving in the death penalty as it is, incrementally, as The People find fewer sociopaths to obsess about and these sociopaths get caught earlier in their 'careers' as crime fighting increases in efficiency. American society is slowly becoming less mentally pathological in a macroscopic sense and the death penalty is the political correlate.

If you're talking about simply getting more radical in a political sense, if that's something that's of great need, I'd say re-progressing the income tax is a far more viable, novel, intuitive, and emotional point.

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R. A. Fuqua

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Fri Apr-01-05 11:34 PM
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9. Genius!

we need to take advantage of Bush's weakness to press for

1) abolition of the death penalty
2) increased gay rights (they should have equal rights as any other married couples)
3) laws that govern right to die and euthanasia.

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catbert836

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Sat Apr-02-05 10:52 AM
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12. Yes, we could finally get the RCC back on our side

The American cardinals just announced they would do more in opposition to the death penalty... I think we have a major opportunity here.

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