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May 12, 2004
Murder most foul.
What does one say about the ghastly atrocity perpetrated in cold blood and now proudly displayed on a website in full graphic detail. Better still, what do the oh so peaceful, oh so holy Muslim clerics say to it? What indeed do the ICRC or Amnesty International say? And what of the oh so spotless media circus? They, after all have incited and goaded this with their blatant disregard of the potential harm they could and have done by their hew and cry after Presidents, Ministers, and soldiers over the scandal of abused prisoners?
In my view they are all accessories to the fact of this murder.
Like all terrorists, these murderers are cowards, hiding behind their scarves and ski masks; they deserve no shelter and no mercy, yet, even if they are ever caught, there will be no justice for the murdered man and his family. Our liberal wimp brigade will see to that. What they deserve is the punishment that would be meted out to them under the very law they claim to wish to live by – public beheading for premeditated and unmitigated murder. No extenuating circumstances, and no plea for mercy should even be considered. Yet already you can hear the mutterings from the liberal left, of “provocation”, “we shouldn’t be there,” “our presence is inciting rebellion”, and so on ad nauseum.
If ever there was an argument for turning that entire region into a nuclear desert you have it now, yet, we have to keep reminding ourselves that the five murderers in the video and the however many behind the camera do not represent the majority of ordinary Iraqis, Iranians, or even Saudis. That majority are as much the victims as we are – cowed by lunatic Mullahs desperate to cling to power, threatened with execution, and worse by the anonymous street thugs hiding behind their masks; they too are afraid of the knife, the bomb, and the gun. That is why we must, at all cost and with whatever means it requires, expunge this foul cancer in every society that thinks it can burn, bomb, shoot, and stab its way to power from the face of the earth.
There should be special internationally selected courts to try these murderous swine as they are caught, and the death penalty applied. They should also be denied burial, their remains cremated and scattered at sea where there can be neither memorial nor shrine to their memory.
The court case now in process bringing a claim for unlawful killing against the British troops in Basra on behalf of Iraqi claimants should be halted immediately, the lawyer who brought it struck from the Rolls, and the law changed to bar any future attempts of this sort. Ozguru at G’day mate is right – they should get no more than they would have had from Saddam – one bullet each.
Let this so called “Human Rights” lawyer and all his cronies go to Baghdad and live with the people who hide behind their families, venture out to throw hand grenades and stones, wield knives and guns with their faces shrouded in their headscarves. Let them then decide on who is and who is not an “immediate and present threat”. They’re so damned smart sitting in their London Offices and their expensive London homes – if they’re that smart, the task of peacekeeping should be a real doddle for them and we can bring the troops home and leave the lawyers to it.
We have a choice – shut the bleeding hearts up and deal with the violent minority in all nations and in all societies, or allow ourselves to be driven into history as a society that had lost the will to defend itself against barbarism. We are dealing with fanatics who don’t care about anything other than the imposition of their twisted and murderous vision of Utopia. You will not defeat them with soft words, bribes, and negotiations. They understand only one thing – massive and terrifying retribution which denies them even the right to continue in existence in any shape or form.
Maybe the Russians have a point in their dealings with the Chechen Muslim rebels – captured or killed rebels are wrapped in pigskin, coated in pig fat and buried. The body having been defiled in this way, the rebels believe it denies them entry to heaven. It might give a few a pause for thought.
Posted by The Gray Monk at May 12, 2004 08:35 PM