#BringItBack: The Campaign to Restore the Guillotine

We need this.

Let’s be clear upfront: this movement is a campaign for fully above-board legal reform. We do not condone or sanction vigilante justice.

Join the #BringItBack movement today, in the best tradition of American resistance to tyranny, to revise criminal statutes at the federal, state, and local levels in order to legally send criminals convicted of public corruption to the “People’s Razor.”

Draw the line in the sand. Restore the American principles of self-government and true liberty. Put your John Hancock on the #BringItBack Change.org petition.

Here’s what we’re demanding, specifically, via Change.org:

• Adopt at all levels of governance (national, state, local), enshrined in law, the following definition of corruption, via the Legal Information Institute [LII]: “Public corruption involves a breach of public trust and/or abuse of position by federal, state, or local officials and their private sector accomplices. By broad definition, a government official, whether elected, appointed or hired, may violate federal law when he/she asks, demands, solicits, accepts, or agrees to receive anything of value in return for being influenced in the performance of their official duties.”
• Make public corruption a crime punishable by death at all levels of governance, enshrined in law.
• Restore the guillotine as the preferred method of capital punishment for public corruption, enshrined in law.
• Allow for a maximum 6-month appeals process for public corruption convictions from sentencing to execution day, enshrined in law.
• Make executions via guillotine public, broadcasting/livestreaming them through official government media, including the White House YouTube channel, among others, enshrined in law.
• Mandate attendance by all elected and unelected government officials at these events as a condition for maintaining office, enshrined in law.
• Declare December 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, a federal holiday, called Guillotine Day, enshrined in law.

The purpose of punishment in the criminal justice system, including capital punishment, is not just to dispense punitive justice for its own sake, but to serve as deterrence for future offenders who might consider engaging in the same sort of criminality. The severity of punishment is a key pillar of Deterrence Theory."

I have a hunch that Change.org will dispense with this petition at the behest of the state if it gets large enough, so here’s a web archive.

If/when that happens, we’ll simply make a new one on that platform or another. This is a guerilla information war, and it requires persistence to circumvent the censorship regime.

Also, follow #BringItBack on Twitter, where we’ll routinely post updates on the grassroots movement.

A Note On Artistry

The unique manner in which the guillotine snuffs out life lends itself particularly to spectacle, and therefore maximum deterrence, which is why it’s the method we are advancing in the #BringItBack movement.

The blade hangs high in the air as the suspense builds. The audience sits in anticipatory silence on pins and needles, white-knuckling it until the blade is finally loosed.

Gravity then commandeers the blade; it accrues velocity until the moment of impact. The head of the criminal is nicked clean off the neck, which then rolls dramatically into a waiting basket to be gathered.

Sic semper tyrannis.