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Arrow
It would require the utmost self-control, in my case, to refuse NOT being personally and with malice aforethought gratefully assigned the duty to aim America's biggest baddest weapon right straight into the heart of "Sodom Who Sane" (or Hitler, or Amin, or Pol Pot et al). I'd walk away from that duty being able to shave in the mirror and kiss my dog every day. Men who have burdened their people with horror deserve horror in return... which is why, of course, Hitler took not only his own life, but the lives of his mistress and his dog.
However, as so many say, "We are a nation of laws, not of men." On that grounds therefore, it would not bother me one bit if the man were to be relegated to a very deep spider hole in a place such as, e.g. Antarctica, without clothing... lots of Irish food though, and plenty of paper and pencil for him write out his "thoughts" upon, solely for the sake of future generations, of course. I say, pardon me brothers and friends, "We are a nation of men."
That man is the contemporary manifestation of Adolph Hitler & Co., without any shadow of doubt.
I am NOT ever going to advocate the "Maximum", or the "Death" penalty... for it is said in the commandments, "Thou shalt not kill." I guess The Lord was meaning, "Thou shalt not kill on purpose nor by sleight-of-hand, nor by simple meanness nor by government edict." NO killing, works for me. Dying is another thing. Revenge is another one of those things. States have amply demonstrated their complete INability to fairly judge the right of a person to live or die.
No, he should be let to live, without torture, without human contact, and FAR beyond anything ever dealt out from Nuremberg. Let us make a true lesson... to ALL who dream of or wish for maximum control.
So "Sodom Who Sane" must live, he must be FORCED to live, and that shall be his ultimate penalty. I would like to live long enough to see how that criminal man dies, and where HIS remains (vis a vis Idi Amin!) might dwell in the hereafter.
We must never think he would be gone merely by killing him... if that were to have ever been so, then there could never have been an American revolution against tyrannical Brits (who STILLLLLLL wrongly occupy Ireland).
Now, I am truly in deep trouble... but this is what my heart says back to the poll.
Think back...think back
The word kill in the Hebrew text is thou shall do no murder. Justice is a far cry from murder.
Arrow
Next thing you know, murder for justice gets justified and innocent ones die.
If murder for justice gets justified and innoncent ones die it is not justice it is a crime that requires justice.
Arrow
True...
Where does it say, where is it written, why MUST it be that to serve "Justice" means to kill?
Reopen the hole after a couple of months and assassinate whoever comes out of it.
No idea were or if what you asked is written but it is written in the Bible "an eye for an eye".
Yup, that'd work.
He should have the same things done to him that he and his ilk did to the people of IRAQ, but it should be done with a greater result.
Why
No where is it written that Justice is always served by taking of life. Jusitce can be served in many ways. Old testament law called at times for the restitution of property. There were cities of refuge established for men to run to that had taken the life of another in a struggle to determine if it was self-defense or murder. Justice was served in allowing them safety until the matter was determined. In the case of atrocities such as the ones committed by Saddam Hussein many times the Almighty ordered whole nations to be done away with. We may accuse the Lord God Almighty of being evil or we consider the possibility that he knows something more than we know. I will stake my life on the latter. There is a principal of good and evil that must be admitted to before one understands the principal of Justice being administered in the form of an eye for an eye. In a perfect world we would not have to have this discussion. There would be no Saddam Hussein. We are not as we all know in a perfect world. That world collapsed when the first man and woman determined that they could and would be wiser than the their Creator.
Well, unless someone supplies him with a receiver I do believe he IS out of the gene pool already.
Arrow
Larry
Zoomie don't like killing people for "justice" Little Sparrow, don't like it all... tends to lead to some mighty sorrowful errors nobody yet has been able to prevent. I believe we can prevent those...
Peace on your path,
Arrow
Andy
I have been waiting for someone to address this last post... maybe not necessary, or what?
"Will the real Saddam please stand up?"
as determined by a legitimate Iraqi court.
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