The "It" Men

They dragged the rat out of the hole, they teased and toyed with it for awhile and later on came a fast, or slow death. It has nothing to do with justice; it has to with putting people in their boxes, to never let the worst of us be anything more, than what they were.

I know that Saddam Hussein wasn't your local good guy, he should never have been inside a political system. But obviously it seems it's very easy, creating a monster in the arena of world affairs and it's very easy to remove a puppet or two, they come and come. It's never been news.

The power was always with the people, the dictatorship was always with the blindness and the ignorance, of the normal human population. The leader were either elected to sit there, or a system put him there. The people always had the ability, to remove those in power. You can make a billion examples, pick them out from history, or from your own life. Look at Hitler, an elected leader, hailed by masses. Look at Ceausescu, a dictator the people themselves removed. Saddam Hussein was bad and he was bad for a very long time, until someone decided, they could benefit selfishly (so it seems to me) from his removal. Leaders are puppets and a mirror of ourselves and our society. If we cared more, we would get more caring leaders, we would force it onto the systems, our wish and it would reflect us, as it does now. We toy with the life of the leaders, as they toy with us and in the end it's very little respect, not much.

I saw the execution video of Saddam Hussein, because sometimes I want to see the reality as it is. I decide that I'm a person that is fit for it; because I'm not someone that can look at a live being and imagine that it is a monster, alienated from humanity in it's nature. Every man is human and a man. If you have taken away everything they had, you can never take away the human, in the person that you judge. In the end of all acts, it's only the cruelty and the kindness that shines, everything else falls asunder in the eyes, of someone that dares to see beyond law and order, monsters and heroes.

I don't want to talk about the details, of the gore that I saw. It's not interesting. I read someone say, that there's no way you can break someone's neck respectfully, so why talk about, if the killing was decent or not. I agree with that.

Someone wrote in a news article, that the execution of a political mass murderer such as Hussein, was the weakest card the anti-death penalty fighter had. This is wrong and they have totally missed the point. I would say a political mass murderer's execution is the best way, to express why I am against what they call capital punishment. First of all, to be against it has for me, nothing to do with empathy for the criminal (if they are not seriously mentally ill). If there is a crime, those that committed it, must stand responsible for it, no matter if they are your regular guy, or the fancy rich snob in a government. I think a person can only take responsibility, when being alive.

It makes no difference if the criminal refuse, or cannot change, by professionals definitions. Death is an escape for everyone, especially for a criminal, that would have to live for the rest of it's life, being judged and disliked because of the crime. The life of a criminal should be worth more than it's death, to modern science, to modern evolution. We can show the criminals and those with a criminal mind, that crime shouldn't pay, not even if it comes from within the systems. Everyone must help make the society better, even criminals plays a part, there's a job for everyone to be done. Nobody should be able to escape.

I have said it before; if they killed one person, thousands, or millions; they don't deserve to be punished in such a horrid way and then become a victim, because of the punishment. By the death penalty we animalize ourselves, we become the bad guy and we humiliate and victimise the criminal.

If it's true, in his little mind, the cruel boyish macho character, he doesn't comprehend it. You see it in the faces of the mass murders, specially those mentally ill serial killers; they don't have the ability to understand, that they were raised in an immature world. A place that don't take care, of those that need and can and will, neither does it have the ability, to treat those that wounds themselves and others. It's a world that feeds what's ill in us and kills what's good...

The mass and serial killers, they usually seem to agree with capital punishment, it's after all a violence, that was part of their own personal culture. It doesn't come to them as a shock, the fact that others, most people and the law, want to punish and kill when it seems suitable, it makes total sense to them I suppose. They killed because it felt right to do it, maybe they like to remind themselves of, that there was no other option for them. Maybe they feel it was everyone else's fault and they cant notice the illness and miseducation in their life, the thing that ruin them and drove them. Living in their own ego, you guess they loved the blood after the anger. They thought it was nature's cruel law maybe, in their undeveloped small childlike head, they never knew about anything else; either you kill, or they kill you.

It puzzled me, seeing Hussein under the trial and in short interview sections; he never talked about his two dead murdered sons. I saw him smile in a picture in the courtroom, you might find it odd, I do, that he wanted to smile, with people that maybe supported the killings of his own family. It made me think that on the outside, he was the tough macho guy we saw in tv clips, where he shot with rifles and held a sword and often made silly boasting comments, about all sorts of nonsense. It's very sad to see, that we have men like him, run things today. I have read about Hussein before see and to me, he always came off like a boyish moneygreedy pirate, not too bad to not love his mother, but not too good to not slaughter and torture, by the hands of others.

Imagine if he would have been kept alive and we would have helped Iraq, the middle east and changed it all, turned it around, by using other "weapons". What a disgrace wouldn't he have been then. Such people like Hussein that did great pain, should never get away with it, by dying in execution. All corrupt leaders should be removed from position, their work put to shame and ask them to help, build a new world. Either they will agree on it, or they will always just be the criminal by their own choice. Everyone deserves a chance to change, a chance to take responsibility, a chance to grow and a chance to be something more, than what they were before. I firmly believe that.

Do you remember Andrei Chikatilo, the man they called "The Monster Of Russia"?. He was executed after having tortured people to death, including little kids. There's two specific documentaries I have seen in my life, that affected me a great deal. Naturally there are a lot of good documentaries, both shocking and sad, but there's two that stands out for me; one was about the cruel childcare in Russian childrenshomes, the other one was about Andrei Chikatilo. I remember his face in the film, you could easily see, that this man was terribly sick, in his mind. They filmed him like an animal in a cage and he asked no sane questions, no sane answers, made no sad expression. He was like a monkey, you didn't know if it smiled, or just showed it's teeth at you. He became the monster they took out and shot in the head. He became an "it" to the public.

You think life is better in Russia, after they killed Chikatilo? Although his story in the documentary, was very human and very tragic. He told a story about himself, but the story was also about a lot of other people. He talked about the society that he didn't function in, the world that was cold and harsh. He talked about the disappointments and the confusion, around the political systems in Russia. He talked about how he saw a link, between his illness and how the world went around. He talked about his wish to move to a lonely island, where just him and his wife could live, he said everything would be okay then. I felt very sorry for Andrei Chikatilo, he dragged out an empathy in me and a heavy feeling. He spoke so well and so sickly at times, about everything that is wrong with the world and it's masters, that I felt ill in my gut, looking at the childkiller and thinking he was a child himself...

Of course life is not better in Russia, after they killed Chikatilo. That was never the goal. It was revenge, destroy what's bad and build something new from the ground; it's what we do. Chikatilo is like a symbol of the lost Russia, in the eyes of those that look at Russia from the outside, he represented everything that is sad, about the place. What's even more sad than a man like Chikatilo, is that the world goes around the same way, changes happen slowly and it's rare... In Hussein's goodbye letter to the people, he said he used to be a farmer and that he always remembered where he came from. In his political work, this memory don't seem to shine trough, it makes you think that he was rather reminded of, what he used to be, when his power was taken away from him.

I would have liked to see a documentary, featuring Hussein and his flower backyard in prison. I would have liked to see a different side of him and I would have liked him to be alive, to see the future of Iraq, good or bad. Everyone deserves reality and life. I would have wanted the same for Chikatilo, why not keep the shame alive? The immaturity in the politics around these people, the death penalty, is a much greater shame to humanity, than the crimes that they individually created, because it's what put the sane to shame.

I think that Hussein liked to see, that Iraq wasn't doing too well after the war with USA. He liked to acknowledge that, just before he died. He hoped to be a martyr, remembered by people that took down his picture from the wall, to walk with it lifted in the streets. In the video of his execution; he saw this, before he died, when they prayed with him, as he stood with the noose around his neck; he smiled and he looked almost very happy...