archenemy blog

This is probably horrible, but while reading Fran’s post about torture, when I came to the Church’s position

“The varieties of crime are numerous: all offenses against life itself, such as murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and willful suicide; all violations of the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture, undue psychological pressures; all offenses against human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children, degrading working conditions where people are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons: all these and the like are criminal: they poison civilization; and they debase the perpetrators more than the victims and militate against the honor of the creator.” [From Gaudium Et Spes.]

…I heard the whole thing (internally, you understand) being read in the voice of the guy from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly who reads off Tuco’s crimes in first of the “turn Tuco in for the money and then spring him” hanging scenes:

“Wanted in fourteen counties of this State, the condemned is found guilty of murder, armed robbery of citizens, state banks, and post offices; the theft of sacred objects, arson in a state prison, perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children, inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit money, and contrary to the laws of this State the condemned is guilty of using marked cards and loaded dice…”

Or is there only one scene? Well, anyway. Probably not an association the authors intended. ;-)