O'Donnell thinks Texas should be ASHAMED of Popular "Justice"
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
March 19, 2021 6:10am CST
I say 'popular Justice' because I think /I/ would be 'proud of it' too (just like Texas's congressman Chip Roy).
Chip says, "There's old sayings in Texas about find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree. You know, we take justice very seriously, & we ought to do that. Round up the bad guys."
In another discussion, @NJChicaa called that "lynching"; I thought they were 'being expressive' (you know, like "They're gonna /kill me/ for this" usually means 'I'm gonna get in trouble!')
But on *The Last Word ...* (about 27 minutes into it ... I THINK the video's cued-up to that), Lawrence O'Donnell repeats that Chip was talking about "lynchings"---telling us that there were over 700 'lynchings' in Texas.
https://youtu.be/XRkn0zGXiR4?t=1622
First of all, "lynchings" were usually "not deliberately fatal." What congressman Roy was talking-about was always definitely fatal!
And then (switching from my 'etymology'-source to my 'memory of Ol` West movies'), the hangings were usually "sanctioned" by the one-and-only legal authority in the area. The Sheriff gave the order! Yee-Haw!
But I guess people are "sure" that the /real/ Ol' West wasn't set up as clearly as the one in the movies ... that's the one I'd rather remember, tho
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@crossbones27 (49721)
• Mojave, California
19 Mar 21
Geez, you had to defend this. I am just wondering if you guys believe in anything and its not god, look at your post you sound straight evil. Not some people cannot take pc, dude you are talking about hanging people like its nothing. You so hard can I be like you one day.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
19 Mar 21
I'm not talking about 'raiding the slave-transports & lining up all the negros for their execution,' I'm talking about "the Ol' West fantasy' (maybe catching the murderer red-handed & 'getting rid of them' as fast as possible).
Now, Rep. Roy might've turned people's minds against him when he brought up "the Chinese Communists" (which I've never heard-of). Before that, I thought he was talking about catching THE MASS MURDERER and hanging HIM up.