[lit-ideas] Re: Religion and politics [clarification]
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:50:12 -0500
What do they do when someone has feloniously committed suicide? Hire folk
to curse him over his grave, to place curses on his afterlife? Put his body
in prison for x number of years?
This strikes me as belonging in that book of "weird laws" -- which sites
things like, in a given state you are forbidden to tie your giraffe to the
hitching posts.
Julie Krueger
marveling at human talent for the absurd
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>In Tennessee suicide itself is a felony.
>
>
> That is clearly a violation of all accepted standards of civilized
> behavior.
>
> Under Geneva Convention Article 91, Southern Edition, "Residents of
> Tennessee who have made good their escape in the sense of this Article and
> who are recaptured, shall not be liable to any punishment in respect of
> their previous escape."
>
> There will be a reckoning, I tell you, a reckoning! However, it will
> probably occur in a state where people have more teeth than children.
>
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