The shame of punishment as pornography »

Posted by: ekklesiawarrior 1 year, 9 months ago

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What we've been seeing over the past couple of days is the pornographisation of a judicial process. There's no question that, however jury-rigged the legal process by which he was held to account for them - But our fever of excitement over that hempen rope is no more than the baying of a mob.

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ekklesiawarrior
Jan. 1, 2007, 5:56 a.m.
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Why, for example, do we seem surprised that the Prime Minister didn't issue some statesmanlike pontification on the subject? What was he supposed to say?
Mr Blair was right to stay silent. The announcement of the death sentence - one greeted, tellingly, with far less excitement than its physical enactment - was the political moment. The rest is theatre.

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  ekklesiawarrior
  Jan. 1, 2007, 5:57 a.m.
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  Nietzsche's warning that "he who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster" has seldom seemed more apt. The rhetoric of a war launched in the name of civilisation has degenerated into the cackling of a tricoteuse at the foot of the guillotine. We should be bloody ashamed.
  
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    ekklesiawarrior
    Jan. 1, 2007, 6:07 a.m.
    OpEd-
    The article states our sense of these previous few days.
    We found many of the articles submitted as well as comments here on Netscape appalling, with all emptiness of common decency.
    To many around the world, America is no longer a sining light, but as ancient Rome, revel in news as porn and as harlotry.
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quicksilver0602
Jan. 1, 2007, 12:35 p.m.
Agreed, Knight.
Nietzsche understood the scope - a vicious circle; one with continuous growth beyond an already unsteady origin.
An unfortunte cliche' of history repeating itself...plus some.

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  ekklesiawarrior
  Jan. 1, 2007, 7 p.m.
  To many around the world, America is no longer a shining light, but as ancient Rome, revel in news as porn and as harlotry.
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Teech
Jan. 1, 2007, 2:13 p.m.
..."pornographisation"... Oh, man....I wanna hear Dumbya say THAT one!
If he has trouble with nuclear...........
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snuffysmith
Jan. 1, 2007, 9:04 p.m.
Thank for posting. I completely agree with this analysis.
Nobody can say Saddam lost his dignity. He was the example of dignity. Death does not take one's dignity as so many seem to imply.
It was the trial, the failure of the Iraqi legal system to provide a true appellate process, the rush to execution, the failure to try Saddam in a truly independent international court, the fact that he was tried for a relative insignificant event rather than being held to account for all the alleged atrocities, and finally, the backroom third world appearance and manner of the execution that together all showed a lack of dignity.
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snuffysmith
Jan. 1, 2007, 9:04 p.m.
Since the execution, it is the clamoring of the public for every dirty little detail of the taking of Saddam's life, the gleefulness of those who supposedly abhor his actions yet take such joy in death, and even worse, pain inflicted, and the self-righteousness of those who act as if taking a human life is something to be proud of that show that the lack of dignity falls upon the shoulders of such people.
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snuffysmith
Jan. 1, 2007, 9:05 p.m.
suggest that anyone who is proud of taking the life of another human being, or who finds some misguided joy in that act, should take some time and look into the mirror at their own soul. In some deep, unseen spot there is something there that is yet uncivilized and dark, ugly and, to some small degree, evil.

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  ekklesiawarrior
  Jan. 2, 2007, 1:35 a.m.
  Snuffy, thank you for your comments, proves there are some decent minds on Netscape.
  Saddam was not captured as the world was told, but rather sold.
  The British completely opposed the manner of trial and any execution.
  America is no longer a shining light.