From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   aspidistra101@yahoo.co.uk writes:   
      
   > The hangings referred to here are of enemy (Eurasian) prisoners for   
   > purposes of a entertaining spectacle (a la Tyburn) and to keep up   
   > the war-frenzy rather than as a culmination of judicial process.   
   > Correct me if I'm wrong but The Party deals with its heretics and   
   > thought-criminials either by simply shooting them or   
   > "rehabilitating" them via Room 101. I'd suggest that Orwell wouldn't   
   > have seen hanging as being clinical or modern enough to fit the   
   > model of the Party that he constructed.   
      
   I seem to recall Julia & her youth group shouting "Death to the spies"   
   outside the law courts.  Also, Jones, Aaronson, & Rutherford were   
   given a series of show trials.  Evidently some sentences were   
   administrative & some were judicial, as in the USSR.   
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