Inca justice system eyed by Morales may use whipping

The Washington Times ^ | November 29, 2006 | Anton Foek

[3AngelaD]

THE HAGUE -- Bolivian President Evo Morales, on a state visit to the Netherlands, said he is searching for a new model of democracy that could include reviving the ancient tradition of whipping petty criminals as an alternative to jail. "When I was a kid I was punished several times, being whipped and lashed," the leftist president said Monday... "Whenever I did something wrong, I received punishment with a chicote [the loose end of a rope], and always believed that the system our ancestors used was better than the system in the northern justice system....," he said. Meanwhile, some 5,000 Indians from across Bolivia converged on La Paz, the capital, yesterday to demand that opposition lawmakers approve a sweeping land reform bill proposed by Mr. Morales... The use of whipping to punish petty crimes in Bolivia dates back to the days of the Incas, when men were known to have walked around carrying colorful ropes in baskets... Mr. Morales, who has irritated the Bush administration by allying himself with Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba, was invited by the Dutch government... Mr. Morales, who has moved to nationalize foreign oil and gas holdings in his country, was to conclude a deal while in the Netherlands with Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company... Bolivian Energy Minister Carlos Villegas, in The Hague with Mr. Morales, declared that foreign investors are more than welcome in his country... "Brazil's Petrobras and Spain's Repsol have both cut their investments after we reversed the rules of the game, leaving plenty of opportunity for the others in the fields of gas and oil, petrochemicals and iron or steel," he said.

[Bon mots]

Wow. Great.
Is he going to bring back infanticide too? Ritual sacrifice?

They should go back to their Inca roots and give up the wheel too.

[Tokra]

Read up on the Aztecs and other meso-American cultures. Check out the Temple of Skulls at Chichen Itza (Maya) or the sacrifical knives at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City (Aztec) or the wall painting of the torture and killing of defeated enemies at Bonampak (Maya again). Or read up on the children who were buried alive by Incas for sacrifical purposes. This is the mindset that Morales brings to government, make no mistake. Whipping would be the least of it.

The Aztecs were sacrificing so many victims each day that they had channels built along the edge of the pyramids for all the blood to flow. At their peak they were killing hundreds a day. Not just "killing" - they would plunge a knife into the victims chest and pull out the still-beating heart and throw it on a charcoal burner.

Noble Savage, indeed.

[Kitten Festival]

LOL!!!

[Kitten Festival]

"Whenever I did something wrong, I received punishment with a chicote [the loose end of a rope], and always believed that the system our ancestors used was better than the system in the northern justice system. It's much more democratic," he said. He must mean democrats. Celebrate diversity. Inca Sharia, what a concept. This dork has also praised the taliban and said he wants to run Bolivia just like them. I think some international observer report said that the Taliban was running things just like Bolivia, or the Marxist FARC narcotrafficantes or something. The synergies abound!

[SunkenCiv]

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