Saddam's half-brother wasn't the Highlander

[Football_Bat]

He picked a bad time to lose his head:

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-01-15T164834Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-283633-5.xml

 

[Chef]

Uh......not so sure I want to see the video of this one.


:-X

 

[Pringle]

Something doesn't seem right about this. People aren't dandelions. I haven't seen it, but in the Daniel Pearl beheading video, I've been told them have to saw through for an excruciatingly long time to get the deed done. Yet a noose just pops the sucker right off? I'm skeptical.

 

[Chef]

Ask DB about the Pearl video......I remember when that thread was posted, I clicked on it.......heard some jibberish in Iraqi or something, and knew immediately what it was.......uh......no thanky.

Thus, the invention of NSFW.

 

[User 1019]

Anybody got a link?

 

[novelist_wannabe]

Gay French driver: I don't know zees Highlander ...
Ricky Bobby: It won the academy award.
GFD: For what?
RB: Best Movie. Ever.

 

[Killick]

I've heard of it, so it's at least anecdotally not unusual. (I know, I know -- double neg). Usually, in tales I've heard, it's with someone overweight. Added force just... pop!

 

[wonkintraining]

I hope that the quagmire that has been the application of the death penalty in Iraq over the last few weeks can enlighten some Americans about how barbaric the practice is. We sanitize it here, keeping the dirty details far out of the public eye.

I am appalled that our nation carries out the death penalty. Sickened beyond description.

 

[Starman]

I hope that the quagmire that has been the application of the death penalty in Iraq over the last few weeks can enlighten some Americans about how barbaric the practice is. We sanitize it here, keeping the dirty details far out of the public eye.

I am appalled that our nation carries out the death penalty. Sickened beyond description.

What's wrong with how it's been administered in Iraq the last couple weeks?

We're supposed to worry about ****ing malignant ****s like Saddam and his brother?

 

[User 1019]

I knew it wouldn't take you long to find this one, Starman!

 

[Chef]

TTIUWOP

 

[User 1019]

TTIUWOP

Whoa! Translate, chef.

 

[Killick]

This Thread Is Useless Without Pictures, I believe.

 

[wonkintraining]

I hope that the quagmire that has been the application of the death penalty in Iraq over the last few weeks can enlighten some Americans about how barbaric the practice is. We sanitize it here, keeping the dirty details far out of the public eye.

I am appalled that our nation carries out the death penalty. Sickened beyond description.

What's wrong with how it's been administered in Iraq the last couple weeks?

We're supposed to worry about ****ing malignant ****s like Saddam and his brother?

You're setting up the typical straw man. I believe that, philosophically and intellectually, one must separate himself from the individual who is being condemned and focus on the action itself, which is the state-approved and state-administered ending of a life. Lacking evidence to the contrary, I think the matter should be approached with the idea that we're extinguishing the consciousness of a human being. They don't wake up in fantasy land. At least we have to assume that's not the case, lacking hard evidence to the contrary.

The death penalty is a lot easier to swallow if you're a religious person who believes that an afterlife awaits - that the person can find redemption/salvation, or barring that, punishment at the hand of a higher authority. It's more difficult if you're a humanist who feels this is/may be all there is. You are condemning someone to nothingless. Not a black void. But nothing. It's difficult to come to terms, for me, with that as a form of punishment.

You've seen the videos or at least heard about them. It's blood sport to these people, pure and simple. And thus the cycle continues. A greater respect for life will be mankind's pinnacle, if we can make it there against the darker side of our own nature.

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

I believe that, philosophically and intellectually, one must separate himself from the individual who is being condemned and focus on the action itself, which is the state-approved and state-administered ending of a life.

Yeah, but if the individual is a ****ing malignant **** like Saddam and his brother, what's the difference?

And who gives a **** about the afterlife? Whether Saddam is going to heaven, hell or nothing at all doesn't seem to have much to do with whether or not they should be executed.

 

[wonkintraining]

It solves nothing and it puts us in contact with base parts of our nature that we should be trying to move away from as a civilized and advanced species.

 

[Starman]

I don't care whether Saddam's soul is going to spend eternity in the gates of Paradise playing Crisco Twister with 72 virgins, centuries festering in purgatory, or the rest of time burning in flaming hell, or whether his soul evaporated into nothingness the second the floorboard dropped out. I don't care.

That's for him, Allah, Jesus, Yahweh, Buddha or whoever else they got running the admission gates up there to figure out.

I don't care if he's executed in a horrifically bloody decapitation, fried in the electric chair, ventilated by a firing squad, or simply allowed to slip away to dreamland with a nice gentle lethal injection. I don't care.

I want his existence on the planet earth finished, so he can't do any more of the crap which so richly earned him early termination from existence. We have more than enough malignant sick ****ers on the planet, whatever is done to thin the herd a bit is a good thing.

 

[wonkintraining]

Starman, wouldn't removing him from society permanently serve the same function?

 

[Starman]

Starman, wouldn't removing him from society permanently serve the same function?

Not conclusively.

 

[Armchair_QB]

It solves nothing and it puts us in contact with base parts of our nature that we should be trying to move away from as a civilized and advanced species.

Actually, it does solve something. It prevents the executee from doing any more harm to society ever again.