DAY 24. The Faster Acholi People Deal with the Traitor-Conflict Within themselves, the Earlier they’ll End the Balaalo Conflict, and many Crises.

DAY 26 OF 40 DAYS. The Faster Acholi People Deal with the Traitor-Conflict Within themselves, the Earlier they’ll End the Balaalo Conflict, and many Crises.

81). Prayer for Acholi People to Deal Head-on, with Traitors Within, First and Foremost.

2 Timothy 3:1-5

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!

Heavenly Father, we are aware that there are extreme intrigues with destructive plots against the Acholi Nation, and their stratagems are aimed, above all, at securing totally, all the sources of wealth rightly belonging to the Acholi People, and through that, entrenching impoverishment of the Acholi People. The plotters think that after eliminating Acholi strongmen, they will finally cause the downfall of the plucky and virtuous Acholi Nation, who have stood strong for many generations, energetically promoted by Godly wisdom, their exemplary culture and tradition, political stance, above all, protected, and defended by You, their God. The composite problem now exacerbates from the Acholi people themselves, by the traitors, among them; aware or unawares. What they do through selling Acholiland, belittles, rubbishes, all the admirable, ethical, economic might, and political astuteness, of the great Acholi Nation, thus causing complexing situations. The Acholi People are currently writing and drawing up Acholi Constitution and Laws governing their Kingdom-Traditional Rule. This now is right time, for constituting laws governing traitors, and outlaws, committing treason against Acholi Nation.

Heavenly Father, we pray that you help Acholi people recognise the Danger of their Traitors, to themselves, when it comes to resolving Balaalo crisis. The first criminals here, are the Acholi traitors who are within Acholi National Borders, from whom the Balaalo have gone to buy land; they sold ancestral, cultural, or traditional, and communal land. The traitors are deceitful liars, and they can sell anything, including children, if exposed, they could even sell human beings; criminally selling human beings into slavery, in order, to get money.

Judges 8:16-21

And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth. 17. Then he tore down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city. 18. And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” So, they answered, “As you are, so were they; each one resembled the son of a king.” 19. Then he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my other. As the Lord lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.” 20. And he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise, kill them!” But the youth would not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth. 21. So Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself, and kill us; for as a man is, so is his strength.” So, Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.

2 Samuel 21:1-6

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.” 2. So, the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; the children of Israel had sworn protection to them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah. 3. Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless the inheritance of the Lord?” 4. And the Gibeonites said to him, “We will have no silver or gold from Saul or from his house, nor shall you kill any man in Israel for us.” So, he said, “Whatever you say, I will do for you.” 5. Then they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the territories of Israel, 6 let seven men of his descendants be delivered to us, and we will hang them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord chose.” And the king said, “I will give them.”

Ezekiel 18:1-30

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying, 2. “What do you mean when you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children’s teeth are set on edge’? 3. “As I live,” says the Lord God, “you shall no longer use this proverb in Israel.

4. “Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of the father As well as the soul of the son is Mine; The soul who sins shall die. 5. But if a man is just And does what is lawful and right; 6. If he has not eaten ^[a]on the mountains, Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, Nor defiled his neighbours’ wife, Nor approached a woman during her impurity; 7. If he has not oppressed anyone, But has restored to the debtor his pledge; Has robbed no one by violence, But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing; 8. If he has not ^[b]exacted usury Nor taken any increase, But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity And executed true judgment between man and man; 9. If he has walked in My statutes And kept My judgments faithfully-He is just; He shall surely live!” Says the Lord God.
5. “If he begets a son who is a robber. Or a shedder of blood, who does any of these things 11. And does none of those duties But has eaten on the mountains
   Or defiled his neighbour’s wife; 12. If he has oppressed the poor and needy, Robbed by violence, Not restored the pledge, Lifted his eyes to the idols; Or committed abomination; 13. If he has exacted usury; Or taken increase-Shall he then live? He shall not live! If he has done any of these abominations, He shall surely die; His blood shall be upon him. 14. “If, however, he begets a son; Who sees all the sins which his father has done; And considers but does not do likewise; 15. Who has not eaten on the mountains; Nor lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel; Nor defiled his neighbour’s wife; 16. Has not oppressed anyone; Nor withheld a pledge; Nor robbed by violence; But has given his bread to the hungry And covered the naked with clothing; 17. Who has withdrawn his hand from ^[f]the poor And not received usury or increase, But has executed My judgments And walked in My statutes-He shall not die for the iniquity of his father; He shall surely live! 18. “As for his father, Because he cruelly oppressed, Robbed his brother by violence, And did what is not good among his people, Behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
6. “Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not bear the guilt of the father?’ Because the son has done what is lawful and right, and has kept all My statutes and observed them, he shall surely live. 20. The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
7. “But if a wicked man turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 22. None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live. 23. Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
8. “But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? All the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die.
9. “Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ Hear now, O house of Israel, is it not My way which is fair, and your ways which are not fair? 26. When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity, and dies in it, it is because of the iniquity which he has done that he dies. 27. Again, when a wicked man turns away from the wickedness which he committed, and does what is lawful and right, he preserves himself alive. 28. Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die. 29. Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ O house of Israel, is it not My ways which are fair, and your ways which are not fair?
10. “Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord God. “Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity will not be your ruin.

82). Could Acholi Traditional Rulers Learn from the English Past, to Establish Serious, Deterrent Laws, including those Governing High Treason Against Acholi Nation?

During the High Middle Ages, those in the Kingdom of England found guilty of treason were punished in a variety of ways, often including drawing and hanging. Throughout the 13th century, more severe penalties were recorded, such as disembowelling, burning, beheading, and quartering. The 13th-century English chronicler Matthew Paris described how in 1238 “a certain man at arms, a man of some education (armiger literatus)” attempted to kill King Henry III. His account records in detail how the would-be assassin was executed: “dragged asunder, then beheaded, and his body divided into three parts; each part was then dragged through one of the principal cities of England and was afterwards hung on a gibbet used for robbers.” He was apparently sent by William de Marisco, an outlaw who some years earlier had killed a man under royal protection before fleeing to Lundy Island. De Marisco was captured in 1242 and on Henry’s order dragged from Westminster to the Tower of London to be executed. There he was hanged from a gibbet until dead. His corpse was disembowelled, his entrails burned, his body quartered, and the parts distributed to cities across the country. 

They were to be hanged, drawn and quartered became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although they are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).

The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered. His remains would then often be displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge, to serve as a warning of the fate of traitors. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake. The same punishment applied to traitors against the king in Ireland from the 15th century onward; William Overy was hanged, drawn and quartered by Lord Lieutenant Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in 1459, and from the reign of King Henry VII it was made part of statute law. Matthew Lambert was among the most notable Irishmen to suffer this punishment, in 1581 in Wexford. The severity of the sentence was measured against the seriousness of the crime. As an attack on the monarch’s authority, high treason was considered a deplorable act demanding the most extreme form of punishment. Although some convicts had their sentences modified and suffered a less ignominious end, over a period of several hundred years many men found guilty of high treason were subjected to the law’s ultimate sanction. They included many Catholic priests executed during the Elizabethan era, and several of the regicides involved in the 1649 execution of Charles I. Although the Act of Parliament defining high treason remains on the United Kingdom’s statute books, during a long period of 19th-century legal reform the sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering was changed to drawing, hanging until dead, and posthumous beheading and quartering, before being abolished in England in 1870. The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1998.

Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, was executed on 17 May 1521 for the crime of treason. The wording of his sentence has survived and indicates the precision with which the method of execution was described; he was to be “laid on a hurdle and so drawn to the place of execution, and there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before you, your head smitten off, and your body quartered and divided at the King’s will, and God have mercy on your soul.” The original 1351 Act required only one witness to convict a person of treason, although in 1547 this was increased to two. Suspects were first questioned in private by the Privy Council before they were publicly tried. They were allowed no witnesses or defence counsel, and were generally presumed guilty from the outset. This meant that for centuries anyone accused of treason was at a severe legal disadvantage, a situation that lasted until the late 17th century, when several years of politically motivated treason charges made against Whig politicians prompted the introduction of the Treason Act 1695. This allowed a defendant counsel, witnesses, a copy of the indictment, and a jury, and when not charged with an attempt on the monarch’s life, to be prosecuted within three years of the alleged offence.

83). Could the Largest Democratic America Supply Acholi Traditional Leaders, with a Foundational Better Examples of Writing a the Best Acholi Constitution, and Laws Governing High Treason on Acholi Nation?

In the United States of America, in some of the places where the American War of Independence developed into a fierce civil war among American factions, there are recorded cases of both sides resorting to hanging, drawing, and quartering both Loyalists and Patriots finding reasons to construe their opponents as being “traitors” deserving of such a fate.

Harrison’s sentence was “That you be led to the place from whence you came, and from thence be drawn upon a hurdle to the place of execution, and then you shall be hanged by the neck and, being alive, shall be cut down, and your privy members to be cut off, and your entrails be taken out of your body and, you living, the same to be burnt before your eyes, and your head to be cut off, your body to be divided into four-quarters, and head and quarters to be disposed of at the pleasure of the King’s majesty. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.” His head adorned the sledge that drew fellow regicide John Cooke to his execution, before being displayed in Westminster Hall; his quarters were fastened to the city gates.

In the case of Hugh Despenser the Younger, Seymour Phillips writes: “All the good people of the realm, great and small, rich and poor, regarded Despenser as a traitor and a robber; for which he was sentenced to be hanged. As a traitor he was to be drawn and quartered and the quarters distributed around the kingdom; as an outlaw he was to be beheaded; and for procuring discord between the king and the queen and other people of the kingdom he was sentenced to be disembowelled and his entrails burned; finally, he was declared to be a traitor, tyrant and renegade.” In Professor Robert Kastenbaum’s opinion, the disfigurement of Despenser’s corpse (presuming that his disembowelment was post-mortem) may have served as a reminder to the crowd that the authorities did not tolerate dissent. He speculates that the reasoning behind such bloody displays may have been to assuage the crowd’s anger, to remove any human characteristics from the corpse, to rob the criminal’s family of any opportunity to hold a meaningful funeral, or even to release any evil spirits contained within.^[61] The practice of disembowelling the body may have originated in the medieval belief that treasonable thoughts were housed there, requiring that the convict’s entrails be “purged by fire”.^[59] Harley’s “treasonous thoughts had originated in his ‘heart, bowels, and entrails'”, and so were to be “extracted and burnt to ashes, which would then be dispersed”, as had happened with William Wallace and Gilbert de Middleton.

84). Does the New Covenant Encourage Punishments to Traitors, Hypocrites, Lawless and the Idolaters?

Matthew 23:1-5

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples, 2 saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3. Therefore whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do. 4. For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5. But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.

Acts 13:8-12

But Elymas the sorcerer (for so his name is translated) withstood them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith. 9.  Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him 10 and said, “O full of all deceit and all fraud, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease perverting the straight ways of the Lord? 11. And now, indeed, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a time.” And immediately a dark mist fell on him, and he went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand. 12. Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had been done, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.