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2023-12-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

This Day in History – Dec. 26, 1862: 38 Dakota Men Executed by Order of Abraham Lincoln

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-12-26 10:04|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 I wonder if Europ feels guilt for eradicating the Vikings, or the Carribean for eliminating pirates, or.... Are we the only nation that has institutional guilt here???

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-12-26 11:00|| 2023-12-26 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Ya, I am slowly trolling the waters!

Posted by 49 Pan 2023-12-26 11:03|| 2023-12-26 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 The Eurine Con-servative will chime in with a whiney excuse shortly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 11:34|| 2023-12-26 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Now for the rest of the story -

On August 17, 1862, four young native men killed five white settlers in Acton, Minnesota.[10] That night, a faction led by Chief Little Crow decided to attack the Lower Sioux Agency the next morning in an effort to drive all settlers out of the Minnesota River valley.[8]: 12 In the weeks that followed, Dakota men attacked and killed hundreds of settlers, causing thousands to flee the area,[11]: 107 and took hundreds of "mixed-blood" and white hostages, almost all women and children.[12][13] The demands of the Civil War slowed the U.S. government response, but on September 23, 1862, an army of volunteer infantry, artillery and citizen militia assembled by Governor Alexander Ramsey and led by Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley finally defeated Little Crow at the Battle of Wood Lake

Sort of like October 7 now isn't it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-26 14:14|| 2023-12-26 14:14|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Just without: UN, CNN, WHO, MSF.
p.s. Did the Dakota braves hid behind their women & children?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-26 14:19|| 2023-12-26 14:19|| Front Page Top

#6 You are willing to make examples or you aren't. Psychologically, I think execution deters only the executed.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 14:22|| 2023-12-26 14:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ^i agree.
no death sentences only long term penal labor

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-12-26 16:14|| 2023-12-26 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 However, it does reduce recidivism

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-26 17:33|| 2023-12-26 17:33|| Front Page Top

#9 As a crime reporter, I definitely saw people who deserved execution. I never, ever saw a system up to handing that punishment out justly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 17:51|| 2023-12-26 17:51|| Front Page Top

#10 The death sentence is handed out daily on our streets, businesses, homes, and schools. No due process, no appeal. You lock up yourself and love ones at night, they don't. You don't venture in to certain parts of cities. Only demonstrates who has real power in our society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-12-26 18:45|| 2023-12-26 18:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah. But I don't have to be a savage myself. I can respect Manco, Dirty Harry, Paul Kersey without wanting to be them.

But the Falling Down guy. Yeah, I could be him...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-12-26 18:58|| 2023-12-26 18:58|| Front Page Top

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