Sunday, January 07, 2007

On Well Hung Dictators and the Porn of Relativism

Well it's been a while since regular posting, had a nice holiday and all that rot, so let's get right to it:

It seems many in America, Europe and the Mid-East thing Saddam's hanging was just not dignified enough; excuse me while I laugh so hard I blow coffee out of my nose. Let me name a some people who have real reason to worry about the undignified hangings of murderous dictators: Kim Jong Il; The Iranian Leadership and, several tin horn dictators on the African Continent, to name a few.

Yes Kim, look at that video again and again, in between your porn screenings and sips of Cristal - this is the fate that awaits dictators throughout history.

When you murder by the city load, you do not get dignity and dewy eyed executioners. Got It?

I suppose if so many had their way, we would have played the Iraqi equivalent of "Hail to the Murdering Thug," offered him a brandy, xanex and cigar before dropping him down and breaking his filthy neck. Dignity. Please, God, someone hit these people over the head with a common sense/humanity bat.

I am just neck deep fed up with people who want to shed tears for this worthless pile of droppings under the guise of being shocked at his undignified death. Rubbish.

He was heckled? SO WHAT? I would have been whispering in his ear, "Everyone you killed, gassed, tortured to death is waiting on the other side for you, Saddam; they will look like you left them and follow you through eternity."

Let's ponder some circumstances less dignified than Saddam's death:

  • Being tortured with electrical current, power drills (Yes the Shiites learned well), sharp, penetrating instruments like nails, awls, etc.;
  • Having the nails on your toes and fingers pulled out, slowly, one by one;
  • your arms tied behind your back and hung by the wrists until your shoulders pull from the socket (the Romans used this to great effect);
  • Being tied up, blindfolded and thrown off a building;
  • Your bones methodically broken with iron bars, hit again and again until they are the consistency of jelly;
  • You children stung by bees and wasps, being tortured and executed, all for just for being your children;
  • Your wife, daughter, sister gang raped or tortured before your eyes;
  • being dipped in acid vats, shredders, gassed, explosives placed on you and blown up - and while all or part of the above is going on you scream, sometimes in front of your family, to Saddam, your tormentors and God for mercy or death.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak did not think much of Saddam's hanging and it's little wonder since Egypt is well known for routinely torturing prisoners. One odious blogger compares the hanging of Saddam to the lynching of blacks(!). It simply boggles the mind to hear and read about those who are willing to dismiss the actions of someone who tortured and murdered on scales beyond imagination, yet weep and fawn over the quick, painless execution of the responsible party.

Was it revenge in part? You bet your ass it was and it was justified. Watch the videos or the torture under Saddam's rule, then watch the tape of his hanging again. If you think the two are even close to some sort of moral equivalence, I submit you are a morally bankrupt individual.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

So, when did we start going after dictators? If so, there are more dictators than Iraq and North Korea, right? Am I missing something here?

Do you know how Saudis treat their own people? Or in Jordan? They are all our friends because they send their kids to college here? What about China and human right abuse?

Well, I agree with you that Dictators are very very bad people - Nobody is disputing it. But I don't like the 'selective bashing' of a few! Then you wonder why America is hated so much for its double standars, uh?

Bob said...

You know, Vittal, when I read your comment I wonder if you read all of my post which makes it clear I think ALL dictators that butcher and torture their peoples deserve exactly what Saddam got.

As far as America's double standard, yes we often have one, partially because a republic like ours is ever shifting in its policies and positions as our people get to vote in new leaders, rather than be controlled for decades by just one at gunpoint.

Finally, the old "dictators are bad BUT" saw is moral cowardice in my books. You either think dictators are bad or you don't; I don't get to make policy, just comment on it and my comments on the subject are crystal clear.

Anonymous said...

Well, it wasn't a personal attack. I was only trying to make apoint that American has been sending confusing signals to rest of the world in terms of its foreign policy.
I understand the nature of democracy. Even after knowing the dynamics of a democratic system, it's hard to understand why America would support bad guys for short term gains only to get into bigger troubles later!

I applaud your stance of denouncing all dictators. We can’t agree more on it.