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[lapsedmodernist]

Rot In Pieces

It is unfair that he expired among family members, and didn't die by a firing squad after a trial at the Hague.

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[slanderous.livejournal.com]

I totally agree.

[apropos.livejournal.com]

Strom Thurmond lived to 100. Mephistopheles can be kind as well as cruel...

[(Anonymous)]

This departs from this earth one more person whose hand I have for many years fantasized about not shaking.

whoops

[lolaraincoat.livejournal.com]

That was me up there, and I meant to begin the sentence with thus. Obviously I'm overexcited by current events.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I'd personally have preferred to see him hang than go by firing squad. It seems even less dignified.

[ersatz-life.livejournal.com]

this makes me sad and angry. when i read the house of the spirits in 5th grade i became obsessed with chile, reading everything i could about allende, pinochet and the coup. i couldn't understand the horrors. later i would realize it was, sadly, just another example of the horrible things that men with too much power do to people.

i'm not into the death penalty, even for asses like him. but i would have liked to see him go through the trials, see the truth come out, watch him squirm, see the people cheering when he is found guilty and led away to die in a lonely cell.

i don't understand how being old excuses a person from punishment. like (and this in no way compares to pinochet) the old man in santa monica who plowed into a farmer's market, killed and injured many, barked at those he hit "why didn't you get out of the way", never apologized, was found guilty, but, well, he's old. so it would be unfair to put him in jail. (though i wonder if a chunk of the motive is that the overworked prison system can't care for a dying man.) ok, done ramble.

it's odd. his death seems like an end of so many things. i wonder how much information we lost with his death.

[congogirl.livejournal.com]

When I clicked the link, this is what I read:

spent his old age fighting human rights

[orpheusinhades.livejournal.com]

You're missing the point. The fucker is dead. When my mom mentioned it to me, I smiled and said "ah, that's good news." There aren't many who really deserve that reaction. One less utter fuckwad cluttering up the human race.