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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
The proscription process was legal and short circuited the need for any trials. Very much like the CIA Hitlist.

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An early instance of mass proscription took place in 82 BC, when Lucius Cornelius Sulla was appointed dictator rei publicae constituendae ("Dictator for the Reconstitution of the Republic"). Sulla proceeded to have the Senate draw up a list of those he considered enemies of the state and published the list in the Roman Forum. Any man whose name appeared on the list was ipso facto stripped of his citizenship and excluded from all protection under law; reward money was given to any informer who gave information leading to the death of a proscribed man, and any person who killed a proscribed man was entitled to keep part of his estate (the remainder went to the state). No person could inherit money or property from proscribed men, nor could any woman married to a proscribed man remarry after his death. Many victims of proscription were decapitated and their heads were displayed on spears in the Forum.

Sulla used proscription to restore the depleted Roman Treasury (Aerarium), which had been drained by costly civil and foreign wars in the preceding decade, and to eliminate enemies (both real and potential) of his reformed state and constitutions; the plutocratic knights of the Ordo Equester were particularly hard-hit. Giving the procedure a particularly sinister character in the public eye was the fact that many of the proscribed men, escorted from their homes at night by groups of men all named "Lucius Cornelius," never appeared again. (These men, the Sullani, were all Sulla's freedmen.) This gave rise to a general fear of being taken from one's home at night as a consequence of any outwardly seditious behaviour.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
Again, Darth Vader's deathbed conversion doesn't absolve him from murdering everyone on Alderaan...

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
There is nothing Peter King can do to bring those he's responsible for murdering back to life. He made the conscious choice to side with the enemies of civilization, and deserves whatever fate he's chosen.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
You're basically saying that since Hitler blew his brains out and ended the conflict in the German theater, we should consider all the people he didn't murder from his suicide to whenever, and sorta-overlook the whole death-camp thing....

Once your soul is evil, it's evil.

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle

Again, Darth Vader's deathbed conversion doesn't absolve him from murdering everyone on Alderaan...

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Given the way that some nitwits interpret the Bill of Rights, they should be able to get behind the idea of stripping suspected terrorists of their citizenship and casting them out among the wolves

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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
Your point is that all the people who Peter King didn't help murder with his positive act ( allegedly encouraging peace ) should be considered when holding him accountable for the people who Peter King did help murder.

I disagree most strongly.

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And as a counter example I suggest that by the same reasoning, all the people who Adolph Hitler didn't help murder with his positive act ( blowing his rotten brains out ) should be considered when holding him accountable for the people who Adolph Hitler did help murder.

Sure it's an outlier, but it shows the deficit in the idea quite well.

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ORIGINAL: subrob1967

Funny, I didn't hear you whining about that terrorist Teddy Kennedy... Why is that?
More terrorism by good ole Teddy.
The Brits just luvs them terrorists, they even bestowed a Knighthood on one.
Even the Irish are chiming in.

How does this post relate to what I posted?
Is there any posibility that you could stay on topic?

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But what absolves Luke from all the workers he killed on the incomplete Death Star?

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Thompsonx [/I]
How does this post relate to what I posted?
Is there any posibility that you could stay on topic?