WHY DOESN'T ANYONE ELSE THINK THIS IS UNSAVORY?

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging, a sentence that was carried out 2 days ago. This is unremarkable in and of itself... but I have to admit, seeing photographs and video of a man - regardless of the horrors he inflicted on others - with a noose around his neck! And then in a body bag! Those images are terrifying! Not that we don't see similar images all the time, as a nation addicted to shows like CSI and Law & Order... but this was a real person!

You might say, well, Iraq is a different society. Images like that are more commonplace in a war zone so they think nothing of filming an execution. But nobody in America is complaining about seeing those images either! Why not?

Even the Mafia doesn't require physical proof of a hit. To date, we are taught that such public spectacles are at best uncivilized, and more likely cruel. I can think of only one other person who required the satisfaction of seeing her rival physically dead:

And she isn't a real person!