Amputate Their Thumbs.!!! .... so says the mayor of Las Vegas..

[RedEarth]

CARSON CITY -- Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman suggested Wednesday that those who deface freeways with graffiti should have their thumbs cut off on television.

Goodman, appearing on the television program "Nevada Newsmakers" in Reno, said: "In the old days in France, they had beheading of people who commit heinous crimes.

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"I'm saying maybe you put them on TV and cut off a thumb," the mayor added. "That may be the right thing to do."

Goodman also suggested that whippings or canings should be brought back for children who get into trouble. "I also believe in a little bit of corporal punishment going back to the days of yore, where examples have to be shown," Goodman said.

"I'm dead serious," said Goodman, a guest on the panel show. Goodman then added: "They would get a trial first."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2005/nov/03/519606498.html

[henslee]

1. They'll get my spraycan... when they pry it from my dead cold 9 fingers.

[henslee]

3. Moron statemetns like this only make punks think t agging is cooler.

[whatever4]

5. Have to ask, are you arguing with yourself? nm

[henslee]

8. Just a lazy misplaced post... but arguing with yourself sure is funny.

[henslee]

9. No its not dickwad.

[fishwax]

14. lol

:rofl:

[whatever4]

16. *more background laughter* :) nm

[ret5hd]

6. tagging IS cool...when it looks like this (from Argentina)...

[lyonn]

12. Please keep him!! Then do what you must

nt

[whatever4]

2. Had a knock-down-drag-out over this yesterday

Just to share that thread, but I hope yours goes better.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1898010

[tanyev]

4. He would fit right in in a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.

I bet a lot of the fundies are really jealous that they can't do cool things like that here.

[MostlyLurks]

13. Except that he's a Democrat.

Which sucks, because everytime I read anything about him, it's not good.

He wants to revert to a Saudi Arabia-style penal system in which *property* damage leads to physical abuse or deformation.
He tells a group of school kids the one thing he'd want if stranded on an island is booze.
He's a former mob lawyer.

Yay. What a great flag-bearer for us. *swoon* He makes me proud to be a liberal.

Mostly

[zbdent]

20. Sounds like he'd get a lot of Repuke support

from those who believe that Abu Ghraib was "a frat initiation" . . . and those who feel we don't have enough CIA torture camps . . .

[hobbit709]

7. Wonder how he feels

about something like - cutting off the hands of crooked politicians.

[bleedingheart]

10. now that...people would pay to see.....

....note I am only joking about it...

[unpossibles]

11. well, if you don't stop them ...

...they will only steal again. Maybe they could make it so that you lose an inch of finger for every thousand dollars stolen. Of course, that would suck for Tom "Stubs" DeLay and "Torso" Noe. </joke>

[goddess40]

15. What about if we use whippings or canings for jerk politicians

Why is ok to abuse kids? I think those that condone it should have it done to themselves first. I was maced when I went through training to be a correctional officer so I would know what it was like-the up side is maced doesn't do anything to me.

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. Keep on bombin'...

There are no graffiti artists, only graffiti writers. Wanna hook up a straight letter on the Clearview? Take a lesson from MIRAGE (rest in peace):



Moralize all you want. We don't care. Fuck legal graffiti. Rock your fill-ins:

[Squatch]

18. Mayor Hammurabi?

[PurityOfEssence]

19. Is this what comes from living in the desert? It's positively Saudi...

Property is everything, right?