{"id":74,"date":"2007-01-02T09:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=74"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:37:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:37:57","slug":"the-executioners-face-is-always-well-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=74","title":{"rendered":"The Executioner’s Face is Always Well Hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought I wasn’t going to write anything about Saddam Hussein’s execution, because I didn’t know what I could say that hasn’t already been said. But it’s been three weeks since I wrote anything here, and I’m at a loss for subject matter, and somebody sent me a link to this excellent satire<\/a> by Jerry Ghinelli, and I just had to share. The execution story is chapter 11 of his ongoing story<\/a> of the French invasion of the USA. At some point, I need to read the first ten chapters. But first, as long as I’m here, I might as well throw in some personal thoughts to keep this from being just a link repeat.<\/p>\n

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I suppose my reaction to SH’s execution is just a big shrug. It’s really tough to be either happy or angry about it. I’m not in favor of the death penalty for anybody. I just don’t think it’s civilized to find joy in anybody’s death, even someone as evil as SH. And there’s a lot of validity to the arguments that his trial was a farce by a kangaroo court and a puppet government. But even given a completely fair trial, there’s no way he could have deserved any penalty less than the maximum the court could give. And in a few barbaric countries like Iraq and the USA, unlike more civilized countries, that means the death penalty. So I can’t get very upset about it, just like I couldn’t be upset if Ghinelli’s satire was true and GWB was executed by a French-controlled puppet court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I wasn’t going to write anything about Saddam Hussein’s execution, because I didn’t know what I could say that hasn’t already been said. But it’s been three weeks since I wrote anything here, and I’m at a loss for subject matter, and somebody sent me a link to this excellent satire by Jerry… Continue reading The Executioner’s Face is Always Well Hidden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}