Comments on: Death-Penalty Blues http://devilgate.org/blog/2006/11/10/death-penalty-blues/ Warning: contains language from the outset Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Ms Baroque http://devilgate.org/blog/2006/11/10/death-penalty-blues/#comment-708 Ms Baroque Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:27:20 +0000 http://devilgate.org/blog/?p=62#comment-708 Oh, I missed that. Well, you know, it is depressing. It hardly matters what happens, it will still be depressing - and the thing about trials is their knack for focusing everyone's minds on what has already happened and been and gone. Catharsis may be a good thing for the Kurds and some others. But one cannot help wishing there were that button we could push that goes "Make Everything All Right." Anyway, I have bookmarked you! Oh, I missed that. Well, you know, it is depressing. It hardly matters what happens, it will still be depressing – and the thing about trials is their knack for focusing everyone’s minds on what has already happened and been and gone. Catharsis may be a good thing for the Kurds and some others. But one cannot help wishing there were that button we could push that goes “Make Everything All Right.”

Anyway, I have bookmarked you!

]]> By: Martin McCallion http://devilgate.org/blog/2006/11/10/death-penalty-blues/#comment-707 Martin McCallion Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:20:21 +0000 http://devilgate.org/blog/?p=62#comment-707 Hi Ms B, thanks for the comment. You're absolutely right. The Lord Chancellor made a good point too, on Radio 4's __Any Questions__. I was pleased to hear him come down unequivocally against the death penalty, but he also pointed out that it would be good for Saddam to go through trial after trial, to expose all his crimes. (I wasn't so impressed to hear him follow the party line to the point of self-delusion on whether Britain's actions in Iraq has contributed to the radicalisation of some Muslims, but that's another story.) Hi Ms B, thanks for the comment. You’re absolutely right.

The Lord Chancellor made a good point too, on Radio 4’s Any Questions. I was pleased to hear him come down unequivocally against the death penalty, but he also pointed out that it would be good for Saddam to go through trial after trial, to expose all his crimes.

(I wasn’t so impressed to hear him follow the party line to the point of self-delusion on whether Britain’s actions in Iraq has contributed to the radicalisation of some Muslims, but that’s another story.)

]]> By: Ms Baroque http://devilgate.org/blog/2006/11/10/death-penalty-blues/#comment-706 Ms Baroque Sat, 11 Nov 2006 22:31:11 +0000 http://devilgate.org/blog/?p=62#comment-706 Well, one agrees of course: when I heard the sentence my heart sank. It seems such a wrong move. If Hess could be locked up, why not Saddam? And that was awful enough. I remember when he died. The fear is that this could cause all sorts of spillout ructions, I can't imagine it all goes smoothly with no escalations resulting. Of course (sigh) America does still have the death penalty, and no one fonder of using it than Bush himself. Well, one agrees of course: when I heard the sentence my heart sank. It seems such a wrong move. If Hess could be locked up, why not Saddam? And that was awful enough. I remember when he died.

The fear is that this could cause all sorts of spillout ructions, I can’t imagine it all goes smoothly with no escalations resulting. Of course (sigh) America does still have the death penalty, and no one fonder of using it than Bush himself.

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