Monday, November 06, 2006

saddam to swing

Another eye for another eye as Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging just in time for the US mid term Congressional elections, but when will the cycle end?

The leaders of the Coalition of the Willing (AKA Coalition of the Willing To Commit War Crimes in the Name of America) have applauded the guilty verdict and the death penalty, even those that disagree with Capital Punishment on their own soil.

Killed in this way Saddam will become a Martyr, and the most self righteous of Saddam's opponents, the morally bankrupt Christian Right in the USA, should understand the power of Martyrdom, the very concept upon which their distorted religion is based.

I don’t like Saddam, and I abhor all he did, but if our naïve leaders believe that his execution will solve anything, I fear that they will shortly see proof that the opposite is true.

1 comment:

Angus Diesel-Fumes said...

SADDAM TO SWING?

FUCK CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

There's always the problem of double standards coming back to bite them. Australians can think of Van Ngen vs. Bali bombers. There's distress and concern when the Australian, Van Ngen was sentenced to death overseas, and great protests that the death sentence is barbaric.

(although John Howard, Prime minister, didn't seem too concerned or make much effort. Some speculate it's because Van Ngen was a Vietnamese Australian [not a 'real Australian', hey John?] And that Howard would have gotten off his arse for an Anglo-Australian... I think that's called racism!)

When the same 'barbaric' sentence was handed-down to the 'Bali Bombers', the only concern was that it isn't happening fast enough!

We can't have hypocracy and emotive sentiment determine policy, else it's little more than a lynch-mob in uniforms, and the first-step to chaos and corruption. We either support the death sentece or we don't. When Ronald Ryan was hung in 1967 Australians said we'd have no more of this kind of thing.

I personally find some crimes appalling (sexual assualt, crimes against minors, violence in general), but I can't reconcile the disgust and pity that feel for the perpetrators and victims respectively, with the idea that 'state sanctioned murder' as a penelty, will improve the situation in anyway.