In the Bill of Rights, there are many pieces people think should go. Most of them are wrong. People always want to limit free speech, take guns away from hunters or in the case of the Supreme Court, widen the scope of eminent domain.
My problem lies with the ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
Why? Creativity. The Greeks gods knew how to punish people in Hades, and good old fashioned American sadism could do the same. You might arrive at better results with more Sisyphean-style labors.
Exhibit A: Tripp Isenhour.
My recommendation: Bind his arms and legs, then place him in an enclosure with a flock of raptors and no other food source for 24 or 48 hours. No blindfold for this rich goober - he would get to see what great natural weapons they have in talons and beaks ... for as long as he could still see. It would be a akin to tossing Michael Vick into the dogfighting pit with some of his prize winners. All those cowards who didn't speak up while this primate shot balls at the hawk would be made to watch.
I admit, I'm borrowing a little from the punishment doled out to Prometheus in Greek myth. The birds might not hurt him ... too much.
But if you knew you'd end up in that predicament for killing an endangered bird, I doubt you'd be so quick to chop golf balls at one.
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