Judge Roy Bean of the South West took no shit. Most likely 1/4 of those people hanged were innocent, but the other 3/4 were guilty as hell.
Why is the 6 gun of the west called Peace Makers.???
My town back in the early 1700 had a flogging post in the town square, about the only people flogged were the slave owners that mistreated their slaves. One or two of the slave owners were black the rest white ,
Yes we did have up north laws on the keeping of slaves and if a owner harmed them he was subject to the lash.
Flogging has been acceptable for hundreds of years taking a lazy no good son to the wood shed for a bite of the shaving strap was the norm. Either the kid conformed and settled down or in the 1800's placed in insane asylums for the non conformists.
In my generation I have seen kids in public schools paddled, hit on the knuckles and even hit with a belt.
Jump ahead to 30+ years later and out come storeys of schools that beat the kids so bad they were paralysed, locked into time out rooms with no windows, then the horror storeys of what went on in the facilities to retrain the considered UN manageable youth. Rape, beatings and death.
Heaven help us as to storeys of schools that were for the blind or deaf.
Can flogging actually give punishment to people, perhaps one or two strokes of the whip, any more then that leads to the person becoming worse and the Flogger more animal.
Remember a few years ago when an American male of 20 or so was in Singapore, he knew the rules of the city and state. For some crazy reason he decided to place graffiti I believe, about and was arrested
His parents were sort of wealthy and when their son was sentinced to 10 lashes the family went nuts. They got everyone he knew in the state department to protest and finally as last resort begged the court to allow the father to be flogged instead of his son.
How much more can one show their love for their children????
Out come was the boy said he had received one lash and came home. Friends and family said the mark on the boys buttocks was like the mark one may get from sleeping on a fold in the bed sheets.
The boy was not out of the news for long, arrests and what have you after 6 months home, The kid was a freeken brat.
Out come had the parents made a deal with Singapore to give the boy just 3 lashes or 4, the kid may have come home in a different mind set. As it was the kid ran about real proud of his getting off so lightly.
Not the kids fault but the parents that would do anything to protect him, gave the kid a clear field to do as he pleased. The kid was a jerk, the parents devastated at their child coming home and getting into more trouble here.
There are a few times these old civilisations have a handle on how to controll their society against the nut jobs that pop up into every family every 2 generatons .
