Public Relations Advice for the Islamic State Group

"Old Sparky," the Texas electric chair in
which 361 killers were executed.
Senators in Tennessee recently voted
to reinstate the electric chair.

These barbaric beheadings of hapless-and often foolish- American citizens by the Islamic State Group arouse bloody-righteous, wrathful patriotism –  in other words, the wrong kind of patriotism-here in America.

Imagine beheading people–the depraved wickedness of these executioners! But do not our good friends in power in Saudi Arabia routinely behead even women for such heinous crimes as adultery? And our newspapers editorialize about this outrage frequently?

Headline today (Nov.16): "Islamic State group beheads U.S. aid worker". Now if only they had executed this pathetic victim (a convert to Islam!) with our Texas state prison electric chair -which quickly cooks the condemned person alive in less than 15 minutes– or executed Peter Kassig alias Abdul Rahman- by means of "The Sheriff's Own Lethal Injection" (works wonders in 4 hours!), the furious American patriots would be less ready to applaud our Smart Bomb Air War over Iraq and Syria.

Execution failure in Oklahoma:Clayton
Lockett dies of heart attack after vein explodes.

Like the character in the "Twilight Zone" episode– on  zoo display in Alien Planet- they would conclude: "People are alike everywhere!"

A short clip from The Twilight Zone Season One episode,
"People Are Alike All Over" (1959)

Submitted to: letters@usatoday.com