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Remember that huge blogstorm a couple of weeks ago about posting terrorist snuff imagery on blogs? (Sure, like you could forget.)
Well, once those videos of Saddam’s execution started making their way around, I knew hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people would view them (many of whom would have unwittingly clicked a link or opened a file not knowing what they would see).
I worried about all the kids who’d be exposed to this kind of imagery…worried about how many people would be haunted by this, traumatized by it. But I never imagined it would actually have resulted in the deaths of two children, one in Texas, one in Pakistan, both of whom saw the video and emulated it in play, resulting in tragic accidental death:
Such sadness heaped on sorrow heaped on outrage heaped on injustice heaped on horror is this war in Iraq…
It is being reported now that the death noose used on Saddam is being pursued by a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. Evidently, he has said he will pay any amount of money for it.
On Friday Charles Krauthammer noted the irony of the man responsible for more deaths than any other living human coming off as the most dignified person at his own execution.
Nori al-Maliki has become America’s new Ngo Dinh Diem. And the solution is not likely to be any better.
Remember that huge blogstorm a couple of weeks ago about posting terrorist snuff imagery on blogs? (Sure, like you could forget.)
Well, once those videos of Saddam’s execution started making their way around, I knew hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of people would view them (many of whom would have unwittingly clicked a link or opened a file not knowing what they would see).
I worried about all the kids who’d be exposed to this kind of imagery…worried about how many people would be haunted by this, traumatized by it. But I never imagined it would actually have resulted in the deaths of two children, one in Texas, one in Pakistan, both of whom saw the video and emulated it in play, resulting in tragic accidental death:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/04/national/main2329468.shtml
Such sadness heaped on sorrow heaped on outrage heaped on injustice heaped on horror is this war in Iraq…
It is being reported now that the death noose used on Saddam is being pursued by a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman. Evidently, he has said he will pay any amount of money for it.
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On Friday Charles Krauthammer noted the irony of the man responsible for more deaths than any other living human coming off as the most dignified person at his own execution.
Nori al-Maliki has become America’s new Ngo Dinh Diem. And the solution is not likely to be any better.