I guess the whole constitution thing didn't mean anything to those folks.
I'm not a big fan of folks who like torturing folks regardless of the reason.
No, I doubt the Constitution entered into any of those folks minds when they found out what happened to that little girl.
The Texas Rangers didn't think about the Constitution either when they ran to ground a bunch of Comanches that raped, scalped and then killed a white mother in front of her family.
Fuck savages.
Claiming you have a "good cause" doesn't give you the moral high ground to be monsters.
This country had a long and dark history of mob justice and the "good folks" enjoying being bloodthirsty monsters when dark skinned folks were offered up.
If the subject of said video story was guilty, he should have gotten a fair trial, not run by an angry mob and had the proper chance to appeal his conviction and then he should have been executed quickly, professionally and as painlessly as possible and not for public sport.
If said parents, relatives or friends happened to catch up with him before the law got to him and decided to shoot him dead there and then, well so be it.
But what happened was simply a gore filled lynching by a bunch of white folks showing how horrible they truly were deep down inside.
The same thing when waging war against tribes that committed atrocities, go in deal with the people who were responsible and supported it, allowed it and such, in a prompt manner but don't go around torturing folks and mutilating folks and mutilating bodies and such.
Think of it this way,
What do we think of people who like to torture animals to death instead of humanely putting them down?
An animal never raped and murdered a three year old white girl just because she was a white girl.
You're overthinking this.
I think most actually completely under think the actual consequences for themselves, their souls, their own righteousness and the shaping of society when folks get into being torturers.
There was a reason the prohibition on "cruel and unusual punishments" was put in the constitution.
Unfortunately one of the biggest failings in the constitution was that they didn't put in an effective way to punish governments, government agents or individuals who violated the rights of others.
Don't become a monster yourself in the name of fighting monsters.
I am against public execution; totrure, wood chipping, skinning, blow torching and other creative ideas to deal with undesirables, because that only lowers us down as a society to their level. In doing so, in the end, they win.
But I am for the death penalty, meted out swifly and not after ten years of getting fat, sitting on Death Row.
One of Biden's filthy invaders just raped a white lady who was out jogging and then beat her to death with a fucking rock. That savage does not and should deserve the humanity nor civility of our Constitution and justice system, but taken behind a wall out of public view and have it's head caved in with a rock, the same rock it used. No trial, no new suit and haircut to make it look like choirboy. Then the woodchipper and turn that shit into compost.
I was attacked by a teenage ubangi that was three times my size when I was six. I didn't do anything to him. He threw me, head first, into an iron fence post. I have the scar to prove it.
It doesn't take a medical doctor to know how bad a head injury could have been for me. I knew one kid, growing up, that suffered from mental retardation and epilepsy because some evil little turd smashed a brick into his head.
I could have turned out that way or killed just cause I was white.
Ask me how I feel about people doing this to children regardless of race.
I also believe in fair and honest trials. I've been a victim of lies and false accusations. Fortunately the evil turds making the lies up about me failed in their plans to completely ruin me.
Regardless, it could have gone badly for me.
With that said, I think I could be an objective juror on cases like this. The video never said if any sort of a trial was held.
One thing to consider is that Smith was seen, in town, with Myrtle Vance. Then she turned up dead. That's a peace of evidentiary information that cannot be ignored.
He did confess to killing her. Just how that confession was extracted, we don't know.
More than just simply keeping a monster from society, permanently, this execution was a public statement. People wanted to see justice, even if it was brutally applied.
It was also setting an example for any other perverted monsters to think twice before doing the same thing to another child.
Also consider how sparsely populated the US was at that time. According to the US Census Bureau the population of the US was 62,979,766. That's 17.8 people per square mile.
We are not as sparsely populated today but still lacking in law enforcement and relying on a crooked legal system that should punish the real criminals.
Back then, like today, people could not rely on law enforcement to protect them. The mindset, whether anyone agrees with it or not was to prevent violence before it happened.
Sometimes, that meant sending a message with public executions. Another thing to consider (and this sounds crass) is that if a three-year-old child wasn't safe, neither was anyone else, young or old.
There's no doubt that some of the spectators might have thought that, instead of little Myrtle, their child could have been raped and murdered.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not in favor of the death penalty today. With what I have seen of the legal system, the crooked judges, prosecutors and some cops will do anything for a conviction; even if the defendant is executed. So until we can get honest cops, judges and lawyers on the job, let's put a moratorium on the death penalty.
So we have come back full circle to the video that the OP shared with us. There were plenty of witnesses at the party to see that the turd was touching young ladies in an inappropriate manner. IMHO, the gentleman that was beaten by the lying, scumbag cops could have been justified in ripping the turd to shreds but he held back.
The execution of Henry Smith for the rape and murder of Myrtle Vance has some commonalities with the situation at the party. At the party, there were no law enforcement personnel present to prevent any molestation. When law enforcement personnel did show up, they punished the wrong person. Except with Henry Smith, it appears that they got the right man.
So is it any wonder, good people will take the law into their own hands to mete out justice in a swift and brutal manner when the legal system gets it wrong most of the time? When there wasn't much law enforcement back in 1893, sometimes people had to take the law into their own hands.
Think about how many illegal immigrants with criminal records cross our borders over and over again to kill our children. Our government does nothing about them, allowing them to rape and murder with impunity.
Then ask yourselves if you can really blame the executioners of the person that raped and killed Myrtle Vance. Ask yourselves if you can blame a man for ripping a rapist to shreds when his child is attacked. Ask me if I would have to hold back my emotions if I ever see a ubangi attack a little white boy that's three times smaller than the turd.
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