The Internet is abuzz with articles saying that the Federal Government has purchased 30000 Guillotines and the story is not yet denied by the federal Authorities.
But an article clarifies that this story has been doing the rounds since 1990 and there is no evidence for this in the Congressional records.
One would think that the Government of USA should have denied this?
Why did they not?
Story:
Why did the U.S. government recently purchase 30,000 guillotines?
A: It didn’t. You’ve been hoaxed.
A June 19, 2013 article claiming the U.S. government recently purchased 30,000 guillotines (yes, exactly 30,000) and that Congress passed a law authorizing their use for “governmental purposes” has sparked a conspiracist feeding frenzy.
Never mind there’s not a shred of evidence to support these allegations. The first clue to their facetiousness is the fact that the author to whom they’re attributed, retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson, died two years before the article was published.
It’s true that Mr. Gunderson was once quoted in the press as claiming that the U.S. government had “recently” purchased 30,000 guillotines (yes, exactly 30,000), but that was four years ago, in 2009.
In point of fact, the “30,000 guillotines” rumor — accompanied by now-familiar claims that the federal government has secretly built “FEMA concentration camps,” ordered mass shipments of coffins and body bags, issued tyrannical executive orders, and so on — has been bandied about in conspiracy theory circles for well over a decade.
This, for example, was posted 11 years ago in April 2002:
The information I had received was that 15,000 or 30,000 guillotines had been shipped to Georgia as well as Montana for safe keeping until such a time as they are needed. (I don’t recall the exact number. It’s been a while. However, I do believe it was 15,000 for each storage facility.) Guillotines on American soil? What are they up to? [source][/source]
The Original Story:
US Bought 30,000 Guillotines.
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HB 1274 authorizes the state of Georgia to execute citizens by guillotine:
Georgia House of Representatives – 1995/1996 Sessions HB 1274 – Death penalty; guillotine provisions Code Sections – 17-10-38/ 17-10-44 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
1- 1 To amend Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the Official
1- 2 Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the death penalty
1- 3 generally, so as to provide a statement of legislative
1- 4 policy; to provide for death by guillotine; to provide for
1- 5 applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
1- 6 purposes.
SECTION 1.
1- 8 The General Assembly finds that while prisoners condemned to
1- 9 death may wish to donate one or more of their organs for
1-10 transplant, any such desire is thwarted by the fact that
1-11 electrocution makes all such organs unsuitable for
1-12 transplant. The intent of the General Assembly in enacting
1-13 this legislation is to provide for a method of execution
1-14 which is compatible with the donation of organs by a
1-15 condemned prisoner.
source: http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_guillotine_provisions_in_georgia.html
One question to consider:
If Georgia was planning to utilize guillotines as a method of execution, how could this be carried out without purchasing guillotines?
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