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BUILD A BRIDGE OUT OF HER!
April 7th, 2008 at 3:46 pmDoes she weigh less than a duck?
April 7th, 2008 at 6:05 pmA rather quaint ancient custom eh? No trial, no evidence…no courtroom, no judge….What are they going to do next? The dunking stool or burn her at the stake?
There’s another part of the world that needs some genetic alteration.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:29 pmI really wish there was some text to go with this. While guessing at the context is fun and all(and leads to predictable Python references) I would like to know more of the before/after etc.
April 7th, 2008 at 7:34 pmshe turned me into a newt…
April 7th, 2008 at 8:05 pmIf she was a widower or they didn’t like the dowery they would have torched her, so a little slapping around for being a witch ain’t to bad. This is the social/educational level of India, our great fellow democracy.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:34 pmthis is why morality has to be the base of nation building
April 7th, 2008 at 9:19 pmand where does morality come from?
haahahhahahaahahah ahahah this is so ridiculous wow
April 7th, 2008 at 11:05 pmThe people out in the boonies of India are simpletons. If anyone of any authority says something they believe it, the balance just go along because they learned that it does not pay not to. Honor killings abound, I used to read about them every week in the Times of India when I lived there. Combine an ancient almost animist culture with modern society and you get WTF?. We would shake our heads at some of the crazy shit that would go down over there.
The muslim cultures are not far off from them.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:49 amIn the U.S. she wouldn’t have been beaten. She would have married a douche and ran for President.
April 8th, 2008 at 7:08 amSo, roughed up, painted, flogged, and walked out of town? There are people in LA and NY who pay good money for that treatment!
No, in all seriousness, the witchcraft thing is primitive beyond belief, but at the same time, their treatment was fairly humane as witch-hunting mobs go.
Unless, of course, there was a pyre off camera somewhere. That would change everything.
April 8th, 2008 at 8:03 am