More than a pound of flesh
"This happened to us because we're rats (thieves). Because we don't respect women and children, if with this action,
you don't understand fucking car thieves, motorcycle, , chain, and cell phone muggers in general,
double fucking bastards, leeches, killers of minors."
Sincerely, The Elite Anti-Rats Group." [The Guardian note]
Another note on any Mexican newspaper? Far from it, it's an alarming sign of the brutality and frustration of people who's satiety of impunity is larger than the rationality of the irrational. I'm disturbed about the double plastic bags, it makes it so mundane and raw, like pieces of chicken one carries back home.
Cutting a hand off from a thief is going back to Barnlockian times.
"'Full thievery' meant stealing something worth 1/2 mark or more, and was punished by hanging from a tree or a gallows, or by banishment from the city and its environs. If the goods were worth between three öre and 1/2 mark, it would cost the thief skin (through flogging) and one or both ears. For thefts of a lower value, fines were enough punishment. 'Pilfering fines' were for goods worth a half öre or less." [source]
There is something so sad about both these images. It means "here we are", in the borders of insanity, crazed, fed up around impunity and the lack of security in our towns, cities and neighborhoods, it means we have been cornered to act as savagely as our perpetrators.
If the note in any newspaper wants to claim it as a drug scene, so be it. To me a "happy face" in the cardboard is still a sign of something so sadist it goes beyond my thought process but stays within my intuition, making it feel uneasy about the future of my country.
Cutting a hand off from a thief is going back to Barnlockian times.
"'Full thievery' meant stealing something worth 1/2 mark or more, and was punished by hanging from a tree or a gallows, or by banishment from the city and its environs. If the goods were worth between three öre and 1/2 mark, it would cost the thief skin (through flogging) and one or both ears. For thefts of a lower value, fines were enough punishment. 'Pilfering fines' were for goods worth a half öre or less." [source]
There is something so sad about both these images. It means "here we are", in the borders of insanity, crazed, fed up around impunity and the lack of security in our towns, cities and neighborhoods, it means we have been cornered to act as savagely as our perpetrators.
If the note in any newspaper wants to claim it as a drug scene, so be it. To me a "happy face" in the cardboard is still a sign of something so sadist it goes beyond my thought process but stays within my intuition, making it feel uneasy about the future of my country.
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