Jacqui Lambie Just Jumped The Shark And Called For The Re-Introduction Of The Death Penalty

This morning, the nation’s favourite embarrassingly bigoted bogan aunt Independent Senator Jacqui Lambie took a quick break from her fight against terrorist lentils to join Eddie McGuire, Luke Darcy and Mick Molloy on Triple M’s Hot Breakfast for a serious talk about foreign policy and defence. She was slotted right in between a discussion of The Real Housewives of Melbourne and “Clown of the Week”.

Of course Lambie’s no stranger to interviews like this and, despite her best interests, she never shies away from the public eye. Remember that time she went on live radio and said she was looking for a guy with a big dick?

But now, Lambie’s somehow surpassed that moment of blissful idiocy by calling for a re-introduction of the death penalty for those guilty of treason or sedition — a measure which Australia abolished in the 1960s and is condemned by the large majority of the nation, as well as the United Nations and human rights organisations like Amnesty International.

“I’m asking for anyone that helps, assists any of the terrorists who are trying to take out our own defence force personnel, that the death penalty be re-introduced,” Lambie said, blindsiding the entire country.

Eddie McGuire then staggered to keep the interview within the bounds of sanity by suggesting less severe approaches — cancelling their visas, suspending their citizenship, pretty much anything other than murder.

“Ooh. Ooh, I thought you were going to cancel their passport… I don’t know about the widespread death penalty,” he said. “You’ve sort of gone ten laps past where we were going there.”

Yes, in this widely disseminated socio-political discussion about our national security, the dude from Millionaire Hot Seat was the voice of reason.

In her defence, Senator Lambie doesn’t want to execute everyone; she specified that the death penalty should apply “for terrorism only” and it “should be determined by the jury”. But, even if this idea did have supporters, now is 100 percent the wrong time to bring it up.

As Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran await their execution, Australia is in the midst of an enormous plea for clemency with Indonesia. Nearly every major politician past and present has condemned the convicted mens’ penalty including Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. And the public outcry is even more adamant, with ‘I Stand For Mercy’ vigils taking place all around the country.

Despite this, Lambie is resolute in her stance adamantly declaring “we’ll probably put a bill together” but admitting that it almost definitely won’t have the numbers to pass.

So hey, at least she got one thing right.