I just watched the execution of Saddam Hussain that was telecast on BBC. You could not have missed it…it was all over the television.
A man was being killed before your eyes: Execution brought to your living rooms!!!
This was no entertainment gentlemen, this was real. Saddam is now a hero – for the quiet and brave fashion in which he accepted his fate.
Fortunately for those of us with some humanity and compassion left in us, these “very considerate” news channels blocked off the final fall.
I condemn all forms of violence…and Death Penalty is the ultimate form of violence.
I have no particular love for Saddam. But I condemn his execution.
Retributive justice has no place in modern times such as these…we should inculcate the system of restorative justice.
If we were to enforce lex talionis (an eye for an eye) the whole world would turn blind.
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Very true, indeed. They've brought the gory spectacle of the execution in the public square/lynch mob into the "discreet" intimacy of our living rooms. I'm disgusted and ashamed of my "culture" but too cynical to be surprised.
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