One touch of white people history. We have bombed for a long time, as a matter of fact for too many years
Today, as public opinion is a problem, sometimes, we are more sophisticated, more refined, in that we kill from physically comfortable (assumption) padded chairs and from relatively padded ('nother assumption) asses, .. guess not even seat belts are necessary .. as we drone on.
"Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall, stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while he was still alive, eviscerated and his bowels burnt before him, beheaded, castrated, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Stirling, and Aberdeen."
Thanks to wikileak and a Happy New Year to all good people.
"The killing rampage at Virginia Tech college on April 16 is being described in numerous news reports as "the worst massacre in US history". This is totally false. The worst massacre in US history occurred on December 29, 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota."