Sipsey Street Irregulars: Now, there's an idea. "Vietnam’s traditional means of execution involves binding perpetrators to a wooden post, stuffing their mouths with lemons and calling in a firing squad."

Friday, April 4, 2014

Now, there's an idea. "Vietnam’s traditional means of execution involves binding perpetrators to a wooden post, stuffing their mouths with lemons and calling in a firing squad."

Vietnam is sentencing corrupt bankers to death, by firing squad

Of course, the ones they're executing are probably the ones who have knowledge of corrupt Communist party officials.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: Sounds like a waste of perfectly good lemons, for people stealing dong.

Good idea though. The stake and firing squad are probably cost effective in a developing nation, and do not run the risk of angering the EU about euthanasia chemicals.

Speaking of that, what about all the heroin that their government captures? I can remember older newspaper articles which said that its use could be fatal. Certainly, they could use some of that to send miscreant bankers to their just rewards?; April 4, 2014 at 4:22 AM
UK Houston said...: Anthony Bourdain, the globetrotting TV chef, who has declared that Vietnam is one of his favorite countries, could not be reached for comment. Odd way to squeeze lemons, in any event.; April 4, 2014 at 7:20 AM
SWIFT said...: Why waste a lemon? Cut the balls off a Rock Ape and make 'em munch on them.; April 4, 2014 at 8:07 AM
Anonymous said...: I served over there in'67'68'69 in the 3rd Mar Div. Always thought the everyday Vietnamese were pretty good people. Now I really think they are. Notice how their government is doing this in response to these pissed of people. When is our government going to do the same.
Never.

StBernardnot; April 4, 2014 at 1:11 PM
Anonymous said...: The bankers aren't the problem. The bankers simply play the game that the government has created with its control of the money supply:

The Economics of Fractional Reserve Banking | Joseph T. Salerno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RXhv0IuPc

Why the Greenbackers Are Wrong (AERC 2013)
http://tomwoods.com/paper/

Attacking the bankers is completely consistent with the Communist ideology, since lending at interest is considered to be theft by them.

There is nothing wrong with lending, and there is nothing wrong with banking, per se.

The problems arise when the government protects bankers from bank runs by either permitting them to suspend repayment, or by bailing them out with printed money.

Please don't be deceived by this bad economic thinking on the part of the Vietnamese.; April 4, 2014 at 11:44 PM
Anonymous said...: the private banks control the US government. The banks issue debts (or "money" made out of thin air) at INTEREST to people, business, and local, state, and the federal government.

Since the amount owed to the banks always exceeds the amount of 'debt money' the banks have created, the system is always ready to topple over and crash if new debt money creation slows down. Of course the banks win either way; through fees and interest when loans are issued and through takeover of collateral assests when the economy slows down and debtors become bankrupt.

The federal government is simply the banks national and international police force to enforce this system; December 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM

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Sipsey Street Irregulars

Friday, April 4, 2014

Now, there's an idea. "Vietnam’s traditional means of execution involves binding perpetrators to a wooden post, stuffing their mouths with lemons and calling in a firing squad."

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