Angel of the apocalypse (Bush: Texas, guns, bibles, beef, born-agains, war, death)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 8 2003 | Paul Sheehan

[Laura Earl]

If their choice of meal was up to me, I'd give 'em sh#$ sandwiches to eat while viewing autopsy photos of their victims.

[jpl]

Texas has carried out more than three times as many executions as any other state (Virginia, with 81, ranks second).

I really hate coming in second place. Clearly we need to try harder here in the Commonwealth.

[PeterPrinciple]

"But it would be a disservice to the state of Texas not to mention why these people were on Death Row"


Yes, that should be in the liberal press, not what they ate!

[dead]

…Texans to the White House in the past 40 years, each of whom has led the US into hot wars: Lyndon Johnson in Vietnam…

News to JFK.

Texas is the only sovereign nation to have joined the Union

News to Hawaiians.

[isthisnickcool]

The author failes to mention the VICTIMS! Let's at least read about them.

Richard Williams.......

On March 24, 1997, Williams, Jeanette and the Gillmores drove to the Third Ward in Houston, apparently to buy cocaine for Jeanette and Michelle Gillmore. While Bruce Gillmore stayed in the car, Williams and Michelle Gillmore pushed Jeanette in her wheelchair toward the corner to supposedly purchase the drugs. Williams then grabbed Jeanette's forehead from behind and, using a nine-inch steak knife, slit Jeanette's throat. Once Jeanette fell from her wheelchair, Williams repeatedly stabbed her in the chest. Bruce and Michelle Gillmore drove away and left Williams at the crime scene. They drove to Blueford's house and told him that Williams was crazy, and that Williams had murdered Jeanette. The Gillmores gave Blueford $400 to give to Williams as payment for the murder. They also instructed him not to tell Williams where they were going. MORE HERE.

On February 6 Henry Dunn had also faced death with a hearty appetite......

On the evening of Nov. 30, 1993, Nicolas West borrowed a red Nissan truck from his roommate, Lara Heidelburg, but never returned home. Henry Earl Dunn, Jr., Donald Aldrich and David McMillan kidnapped West from a Montgomery Ward parking lot in Tyler, Texas, and then drove to a clay pit where they fatally shot him. MORE HERE

[Sawdring]

News to JFK and also George H. Bush.

[dead]

He did mention them and how they died. He just waited until the end, when most people had stopped reading.

He also mentioned them in the context of "righteous vengence" slyly comparing their executions to the supposedly "righteous vengence" that inspired unnamed Texans to blow up the Murrah building Oklahoma City.

[Ciexyz]

Hmmm, I always thought that condemned prisoners ordered steak as their last meal. You learn something new every day.

[templar]

News to JFK.

News to Eisenhower. He sent the first 'advisor' to Vietnam in response to the 'dangerous and threatening situation in Southeast Asia'. (quotes form Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1957)

[dead]

You're right, LBJ was the third president to send US personnel to Vietnam. I think JFK was the first to send troops.

[Ciexyz]

"Remember the victims" bump.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You are correct. My dad was in Viet Nam and Laos in the mid 1950's.

[vbmoneyspender]

JFK was the one who turned Vietnam into a real problem. After JFK signed off on the assassination of Diem, Cambodia's leader, Prince Sihanouk, decided that it might not be such a prudent thing to have a president like JFK as an ally. As a result, Sihanouk ordered all U.S. advisors out of Cambodia and declared Cambodia to be a neutral state in the fight between North and South Vietnam. This directly led to the creation of the Ho Chi Minh trail which kept North Vietnam's southern proxies supplied through think and thin and materially expanded the scope of the war.

[OldCorps]

ya sold me. sounds like a safe place to live and raise my family. I'm movin as soon as i can.

[mountaineer]

"I want this sucker tortured," said syndicated talk host Greg Knapp. On the next shift, the next host, Glen Beck, picked up the same theme: "If he has any fingernails left, we're not doing our job." Beck noted the large amount of hair on Khalid's back and suggested variousways of removing it.

What sloppy writing. Glenn Beck is syndicated, too, and lives in Philadelphia. So this guy quotes two out-of-state radio hosts to prove --- what? That Texans are bloodthirsty?

[Still Thinking]

You're right, LBJ was the third president to send US personnel to Vietnam. I think JFK was the first to send troops.

Either JFK wasn't the first, or LBJ wasn't the third, unless you're counting the phantom president that came between.

[Solamente]

"If their choice of meal was up to me, I'd give 'em sh#$ sandwiches to eat while viewing autopsy photos of their victims."

Right On, lulabelle!

[dead]

I was differentiating between personnel and troops.

Eisenhower sent personnel (advisors, etc.). I am not sure if he sent troops.

I believe JFK was the first to send troops.

LBJ was definitely the third to send US personnel.