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Thu, 01-18-2007 - 8:31am

What are your thoughts on the person who recorded Saddam Hussein's execution on his cell phone and released it to the public?


DO you think it should be forgiven as Saddam has caused enough pain to everyone and we should all get to see his execution.


Or do you think that it wasn't something everyone was suppose to see, this man violated Saddams privacy and charges should be filed?


Share your thoughts!


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Thu, 01-18-2007 - 9:55am

Well, I assume there was some kind of recording of it for the record. I would imagine that kind of thing is required as "proof" that it occurred. I can also understand people wanting to see for themselves, to KNOW he is dead. If he'd been responsible for wiping out my family I'd want to know as well. In those countries so much is kept hidden and so many people have experienced real conspiracy, there is a much greater tendancy to believe that he may have been spirited away by supporters. I mean look how many people still believe Elvis is alive.


The problem with releasing it on the internet is you get all sorts of sickos watching it who get off on that. I didn't watch it, I have no desire to. He did not kill my family and I have no interest in watching people die. However I think the state should have done something like they did for the last two guys who were hung. You take a video, you invite a few select journalists to watch it and then they report "yes, it happened, we saw it" and that's it, its never released. But how can you stop someone from smuggling a camera in and maybe that's WHY they did it this way the second time.


I guess he should be punished, he broke the rules (not sure the law) and it was in poor taste, but I'm not sure what he could be charged with. Being a jerk? Is that illegal anywhere? I don't really have strong feelings on it. I seem to remember that the execution of Checescu (which I just butchered the spelling of) of Romania was recorded and on TV (firing squad) at least I think it was. Some people want proof, others want a titillating piece of theatre. Public hangings anyone? 90% of those people were not there because they had been directly impacted by the criminal, it was just for "fun"? Hopefully we've evolved somewhat, but not everyone I'm sure.

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Thu, 01-18-2007 - 10:33am

Well I can't use american standards to judge what happens in the middle east. They tend to be way more savage and value human life less, in my opinion. I guess it wasn't too long ago that the us and the middle east would hang or beat people in the public square.

I think the people of that country and the other would be terrorists and dictators needed to know that in fact he was given the ultimate punishment. We all just love conspiracy theories so it had to have helped a bit for people to be able to see for themselves that he was in fact killed.

Now if there is some kind of law against that in Iraq then I guess this person should get some kind of slap on the wrist. I don't think Iraq does "slaps on the wrist" so I don't think this person should be killed for doing it either.

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Thu, 01-18-2007 - 2:28pm

I think it wsa probably some journalist trying to get his "big break"!


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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 12:43am
Well, that's the first I've heard about the cell phone recording of the execution. Honestly I'm not sure I agree with capitol punishment at all. Who are we to kill another person for what we judge as wrong? I wasn't interested in witnessing the death either and really don't care about it, other than I'm not sure it was the right thing to do. The crimes he committed were horrific, but maybe a good punishment would have involved him being a prisoner and having to do good for the many people he wronged. Maybe helping rebuild the communities and clean up the place. Maybe having to apologize to the families he hurt...that's something I don't think that culture ever does. In my opinion, that would have been much more harsh for him and a stronger statement to the world. Killing him only made him a martyr to the many supporters he still has.

 

 

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Fri, 01-19-2007 - 7:34am

I don't think that executions should be public (I have mixed feelings about the death penalty to begin with, but this happened in another country according to their laws not ours).

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