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To: posterchild
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."
-- Charles James Napier, British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, 1843-1847
15 posted on 08/28/2016 4:35:52 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FredZarguna

Today of course, they would haul Napier before the UN Commission on Human Rights, (and of course Churchill would be in a dungeon somewhere)! /sarcasm;)


18 posted on 08/28/2016 4:42:45 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: FredZarguna
"Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs. -- Charles James Napier, British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, 1843-1847 "

Beautiful.

25 posted on 08/28/2016 5:11:52 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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