It seems modern Muslims are giving past decapitators a bad name!

Alexander Blackwell (died 1747) was a British adventurer who was involved in a mysterious plot in Sweden and was tried, tortured, and beheaded. At his execution, Blackwell came to the block and put his head on the wrong side. The executioner pointed out his mistake and Blackwell moved around to the correct side, saying that he was sorry for the mistake, but this was the first time that he had been beheaded. Ahh yes, beheadings were always permanent, sometimes polite, but always to the point!

Decapitation has been reintroduced into our lives by Muslim terrorists even though it is a reckless, repulsive and reprehensible way to express one’s hatred of an enemy, declare a warning to others, or to exact justice. Of course, what the Muslims know about true justice would fit into the navel of a flea. More about that later–Muslims, not the flea.

Barbarism is as old as mankind and no nation has been an exception. Astyages, the last king of Media carried barbarism to its height when he ordered his general Harpagus to eat the head of his (Harpagus’) own son, and Harpagus said that whatever a king did or said was all right with him! Cyrus the Great was Astyages’ grandson and dethroned his grandpa in 550 B.C. Good for Cyrus.

An attempted assassin in China in 1570 A.D. was buried alive in the ground with only his head exposed, and the head was slowly sawn off with a bamboo saw by passers-by for several days. This official and sluggish execution was an example to all would-be assassins that they could be next.

The Celts of Western Europe followed the “cult of the severed head” which was responsible for their reputation as head hunters. An ancient historian reports:

“They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses. The blood-stained spoils they hand over to their attendants and striking up a paean and singing a song of victory; and they nail up these first fruits upon their houses,…They embalm in cedar oil the heads of the most distinguished enemies, and preserve them carefully in a chest, and display them with pride to strangers, saying that for this head one of their ancestors, or his father, or the man himself, refused the offer of a large sum of money. They say that some of them boast that they refused the weight of the head in gold.” Ghastly, gory, and grotesque!

Rome was known for beheading its citizens, while non-citizens were crucified. Since the Apostle Paul was a Roman citizen, he was “honored” with beheading. Christ, not being a Roman citizen, was crucified, but unlike Paul, He refused to remain dead!

Often the head of the beheaded victim was displayed in the Roman Forum as was the case of Cicero, maybe the most noble of Romans, whose hands and head were nailed on the Rostra (the podium from which he spoke!) in the Forum in 43 B.C. Cicero had antagonized Mark Antony in some of his speeches in the Forum and was identified as “an enemy of the state.”

Beheading was a popular form of capital punishment since it was quick and a cheap way to get the job done. Capital punishment derives from the Latin word “capitalis” meaning “head,” since in ancient times a death sentence typically meant the offender lost his head. However, it seems most officials went to a little extreme in carrying out their idea of justice. Death was not enough.

Beheading was often considered the honorable way to die for an aristocrat; in England it was considered the privilege of the upper class to be beheaded. Death on the gallows or burning at the stake was considered dishonorable. Women were usually burned at the stake. Severed heads often were displayed on the London Bridge, as many as 40 at a time, sending a message to citizens about rebellion against the king.

In recent days the Mexican drug cartel has been sending horror throughout the continent by dropping heads along the highways, in front of churches, etc. They are even using chain saws to make the beheadings more gruesome, ghastly, and grotesque.

All beheadings are grotesque but Muslim beheadings are the most reckless, repulsive, and reprehensible because they are religiously inspired. Islamic hypocrisy is astounding.

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I sense a cold shudder throughout the free world and it seems especially obvious following each presidential press conference.

Perspicacious people are aware that the “city on a hill” is being destroyed by its own leaders: Visceral left wing progressives in the White House, Congress, and the Courts are the modern Visigoths who have ravaged, ruined, and raped America.

This should be no surprise since Obama promised to fundamentally change America and he has been immensely successful. This amounts to a coup d’état with collusion of Congress and the courts. The progressives seem to subscribe to the ancient Roman adage “whatever pleases the king has the force of law.” But then Obama is not king, only President of a constitutional republic. However, Obama seems to have assumed the mantle of Emperor Charles IV who “legalized anarchy and called it a constitution.”

Obama has the mentality of Humpty Dumpty (who had a great fall!) who declared to Alice, “Words mean what I say they mean.” Obama has his own interpretation of the Constitution so anything he does is “legal.”

Obama justifies executive action because Congress has refused to act consequently he has made laws for the good of Americans. That means he can make illegal aliens, legal immigrants! He can make vile immorality very decent, even wholesome morality! He can redefine marriage that has stood since the beginning of civilization into something sleazy, specious, and sullied. He can take over a private company and run it as a government enterprise; he can send fighter planes to terrorists in Egypt; he can spy on Americans, even politicians with impunity; he can spend money the nation doesn’t have to impress people we don’t like; he can target Christians and Conservatives using the IRS as a tool and IRS officials arrogantly deny culpability. He plays while the world burns.

Furthermore, he can take over the health care industry with grandiose false promises and turn it into a third world industry; he can honor every minor Muslim organization and denigrate Christian groups; he can have radicals at the White House (our house) but never has a Fundamentalist Christian; he can tell us that government should not be in our bedrooms since it is no one’s business yet use tax dollars to pay for what goes on in those bedrooms; he can speak of our Constitution yet purposefully refuse to use the word “Creator” when quoting it; he can have a White House dinner for the Muslim Ramadan celebration but not have one for the National Day of Prayer; he can disinvite Franklin Graham from speaking at the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event but Muslims come and go from the White House as if it were the Mosque of Omar.

I could go on and on and I think I will!

Obama can demand and get a change of definitions; so now a terrorist is no longer a terrorist, a jihadist is no longer a jihadist, and a radical Muslim is no longer radical. He can (contrary to federal law) spend 23 million dollars to back Kenya’s constitution to support abortion. He can refuse to release pertinent personal documents as other Presidents have done and spend millions of dollars to hide them!

We have a Visigoth in the White House, a brash, boorish, barbarian bent on destruction!

Obama thinks he can choose what laws he will obey, not understanding that makes him a rogue leader. Equally shocking is the lack of horror from Congress and the Courts. Moreover, it is incredible that the streets are not full of pitchfork-wielding taxpayers demanding strict adherence to the Constitution by every elected official. Alas, the streets are empty; after all, most of us are eating three meals per day and still have access to television. This is not a call for violence but for vision, vigilance, verity, especially verity.

I do not think America’s greatest days are ahead of us. We are not made of the same necessary material as in our early years. With few exceptions our leaders are compromising, cowardly, and corrupt. Early American leaders were not paragons of virtue but they were patriots who put America first. Our present leaders do not think patriotism is a virtue but a vice.

Obama is like the rooster who struts out each morning thinking the sun has risen just to hear him crow! But he can’t crow unless he is reading a script written by a hired hack. When he wanders away from the teleprompter, he does a great imitation of Elmer Fudd.

Straining, sweating, and struggling, whether he is trying to learn how to use a teleprompter, trying to memorize his talking points, trying to stop smoking, or straining to keep his wife’s mouth duct taped, Obama struggles to the top of the hill. There, surveying the world at his feet, he puffs out his chest, puts his hands on his hips and discovers that he has forgotten to put on his pants. The Emperor (or messiah) is naked as a jaybird!

Of course, informed and honest people have known that for a few years.

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