Rant Pants #5628: Make Up Your Fucking Mind!
I haven't bothered to rant or even post about this yet, which is sort of strange, being that it's worldwide news and such... But then I've been busy playing The Sims 2 on my housemate's kid's Xbox.
Anyway. A tyrant is now dead. Saddam Hussein, hung from the neck until dead on the 30th of December, 2006. Poor bastard didn't even get to see the new year in. And before any of you go thinking I had sympathy for him, I use the term "poor bastard" as a cynical element. Barely days later, grainy camera-phone footage was available on the internet. This was was the Iraqi Government didn't want you to see. Saddam being taunted by those who were there. Saddam taunting them back, or babbling in Arabic, which ever you choose to believe.. the footage was grainy, and the sound left a lot to be desired also. The most chilling image from that video, is one towards the very end. A grainy, badly lit image of Saddam's face as the life is going out of him, his head jerked to the side as the weight of his body, and indeed gravity, kill this tyrant who killed so many himself.
What makes me want to rant about this, though, is the reaction it has spawned from the global community. Some are saying that justice was served. (The US, predictably...but I would have expected no less from them. Although, I find it ironic that the Americans said they were "unable to interfere in the affairs of other countries" when they were asked to appeal the sentence. Unable to interfere?? Yeah...ok, you keep telling yourself that one, and we'll just remind you of it the next time you go globetrotting to destination X to crack some new skulls.) And then you have all these bleeding heart types, who say that he should not have been executed, and that the death penalty should now be abolished everywhere.
Well. Can I just say "WTF are you smoking?" and you are obviously smoking the WRONG shit there, buddy! Let's do a bit of a case comparison here, shall we?
1: Joe Schmuck from Nowheresville, kills some poor innocent family. Joe gets caught, sent to trial, says he did it, but isn't remorseful for his crimes, gets sentenced to a date with Old Sparky or Nora Needle, and unless it's the immediate family, NO ONE GIVES A FUCK, and he gets executed and no one, NO ONE bats a freakin' eyelid. "Justice" has been served.
2: Saddam Hussein... Tyrant, Despot, Dictator... Pissed off Bush Sr in the 90's, killed a shitload of people, didn't seem to do anything this time except maybe be #2 on the list to finding the REAL culprit of the 9/11 attacks (Remember him? That guy... what's his name... oh, that's right... OSAMA! But you know... GW doesn't care about fnding him anymore.) Anyway. Saddam ruled with an Iron Fist for 20 something years. Then gets deposed. And spends time on the run, and ends up being found in a HOLE, on a farm, looking nothing like his pretty portraits that used to line the streets of Baghdad. They had to SHAVE him to make sure it really was him.
Now. There was outrage when he was photographed in his undies. They said it was inhumane to treat him that way. INHUMANE? Yeah I'm sure the atrocities he committed were completely humane, too. I'm no expert on law, so I'm not going to comment on the legality of the trial and stuff like that... But all I will say is, someone like him would probably try and say ANYTHING to get out of a long drop on a short rope.
No doubt the guy was a dangerous man, and had links to dangerous people. So then WHY, now that he is dead, are people whining about it and saying "abolish the death penalty"? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND, WORLD! Either you wanted the bastard dead, or you didn't, THAT much is certain. You either supported the guy (if you were most likely an equally minded madman), or thought what the guy did was despicable and atrocious (if you're a "normal" type of person).
The point is, people are executed everyday, we don't often always hear about it, though. It all comes back to doing the crime, and paying the price, be it a life's worth of jail sentence, or being executed. If you are found guilty of a crime in a country, be it your own or a foreign one, then you have to suffer the consequences if you are truly guilty. I said the same thing to people that I talk to about Van Tuong Nguyen, who was hung in Singapore for drug trafficking. The penalty for such a crime there, is death. Same with the Bali Nine. If you're caught for it, and you are guilty, you pay the penance.
So what, people actually feel sorry for Saddam, now? The guy is still a murderer and a tyrant. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him because he was executed? The world isn't going to forget him very easily, especially not those who lived in Iraq under his regime, nor those who's families were directly affected by his actions.
So for anyone that wishes to know my stance on the death penalty:
I am FOR the death penalty, if the crime warrants it. This can relate to crimes of murder, especially the murder and abuse of children. Obviously to sentence someone to death for ripping off their business partner is a bit extreme. But if another life is taken, specifically a young life (NO child deserves to be murdered), then the death penalty should be an option.
Paedophiles deserve to be executed more than just a mere murderer, at least in my book. (As well as the books of most of my friends) Time and time again I hear on the news of paedophiles being released from prison and then (surprise, surprise) re-offending. What is the point of letting these scumbags out? Considering that if they don't re-offend within 6 months, they are hounded by the neighbourhood they are placed in. Paedophiles do NOT deserve freedom. They steal the innocent freedoms of young children forever, so why after so many years, are they then given theirs back?
As Muriel (my mother) always says... "The law is an Ass".
This has been a somewhat sketchy rant, I'm your host, Frostilicus. Good night.
Anyway. A tyrant is now dead. Saddam Hussein, hung from the neck until dead on the 30th of December, 2006. Poor bastard didn't even get to see the new year in. And before any of you go thinking I had sympathy for him, I use the term "poor bastard" as a cynical element. Barely days later, grainy camera-phone footage was available on the internet. This was was the Iraqi Government didn't want you to see. Saddam being taunted by those who were there. Saddam taunting them back, or babbling in Arabic, which ever you choose to believe.. the footage was grainy, and the sound left a lot to be desired also. The most chilling image from that video, is one towards the very end. A grainy, badly lit image of Saddam's face as the life is going out of him, his head jerked to the side as the weight of his body, and indeed gravity, kill this tyrant who killed so many himself.
What makes me want to rant about this, though, is the reaction it has spawned from the global community. Some are saying that justice was served. (The US, predictably...but I would have expected no less from them. Although, I find it ironic that the Americans said they were "unable to interfere in the affairs of other countries" when they were asked to appeal the sentence. Unable to interfere?? Yeah...ok, you keep telling yourself that one, and we'll just remind you of it the next time you go globetrotting to destination X to crack some new skulls.) And then you have all these bleeding heart types, who say that he should not have been executed, and that the death penalty should now be abolished everywhere.
Well. Can I just say "WTF are you smoking?" and you are obviously smoking the WRONG shit there, buddy! Let's do a bit of a case comparison here, shall we?
1: Joe Schmuck from Nowheresville, kills some poor innocent family. Joe gets caught, sent to trial, says he did it, but isn't remorseful for his crimes, gets sentenced to a date with Old Sparky or Nora Needle, and unless it's the immediate family, NO ONE GIVES A FUCK, and he gets executed and no one, NO ONE bats a freakin' eyelid. "Justice" has been served.
2: Saddam Hussein... Tyrant, Despot, Dictator... Pissed off Bush Sr in the 90's, killed a shitload of people, didn't seem to do anything this time except maybe be #2 on the list to finding the REAL culprit of the 9/11 attacks (Remember him? That guy... what's his name... oh, that's right... OSAMA! But you know... GW doesn't care about fnding him anymore.) Anyway. Saddam ruled with an Iron Fist for 20 something years. Then gets deposed. And spends time on the run, and ends up being found in a HOLE, on a farm, looking nothing like his pretty portraits that used to line the streets of Baghdad. They had to SHAVE him to make sure it really was him.
Now. There was outrage when he was photographed in his undies. They said it was inhumane to treat him that way. INHUMANE? Yeah I'm sure the atrocities he committed were completely humane, too. I'm no expert on law, so I'm not going to comment on the legality of the trial and stuff like that... But all I will say is, someone like him would probably try and say ANYTHING to get out of a long drop on a short rope.
No doubt the guy was a dangerous man, and had links to dangerous people. So then WHY, now that he is dead, are people whining about it and saying "abolish the death penalty"? MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND, WORLD! Either you wanted the bastard dead, or you didn't, THAT much is certain. You either supported the guy (if you were most likely an equally minded madman), or thought what the guy did was despicable and atrocious (if you're a "normal" type of person).
The point is, people are executed everyday, we don't often always hear about it, though. It all comes back to doing the crime, and paying the price, be it a life's worth of jail sentence, or being executed. If you are found guilty of a crime in a country, be it your own or a foreign one, then you have to suffer the consequences if you are truly guilty. I said the same thing to people that I talk to about Van Tuong Nguyen, who was hung in Singapore for drug trafficking. The penalty for such a crime there, is death. Same with the Bali Nine. If you're caught for it, and you are guilty, you pay the penance.
So what, people actually feel sorry for Saddam, now? The guy is still a murderer and a tyrant. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him because he was executed? The world isn't going to forget him very easily, especially not those who lived in Iraq under his regime, nor those who's families were directly affected by his actions.
So for anyone that wishes to know my stance on the death penalty:
I am FOR the death penalty, if the crime warrants it. This can relate to crimes of murder, especially the murder and abuse of children. Obviously to sentence someone to death for ripping off their business partner is a bit extreme. But if another life is taken, specifically a young life (NO child deserves to be murdered), then the death penalty should be an option.
Paedophiles deserve to be executed more than just a mere murderer, at least in my book. (As well as the books of most of my friends) Time and time again I hear on the news of paedophiles being released from prison and then (surprise, surprise) re-offending. What is the point of letting these scumbags out? Considering that if they don't re-offend within 6 months, they are hounded by the neighbourhood they are placed in. Paedophiles do NOT deserve freedom. They steal the innocent freedoms of young children forever, so why after so many years, are they then given theirs back?
As Muriel (my mother) always says... "The law is an Ass".
This has been a somewhat sketchy rant, I'm your host, Frostilicus. Good night.
posted by FrostilicusFrost at 7:17 pm
1 Comments:
Yeah, go you!
YOU GO!
Silly silly people.
Unfortunately, I don't see a solution popping up anytime soon.
Except eating those people.
Yes.
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