ATG
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drudgereport wrote:

"I don't think he thought it was real," Gustavo said of Saddam's hanging. "They showed them putting the noose around his neck and everything. Why show that on TV?"
This is the third hanging attributed to the execution of Saddam.

Ap news wrote:

Kolkata, India - A 15-year-old girl from eastern India hanged herself in response to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, police and family members said on Thursday.

"She said they had hanged a patriot. We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain Saddam did during the execution," the girl's father, Manmohan Karmakar, told AFP by phone from the town of Kharda.
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News … 37,00.html
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?secti … id=4904242
Now we have a rash of people dying either in protest, or mimicing of the hanging of Saddam.
Surealistic.
Superior Mind
(not macbeth)
+1,755|7117
wow...some people need to get real.
Marconius
One-eyed Wonder Mod
+368|7119|San Francisco
Reality is subjective.  It's real enough to those who actually care about it.
TrollmeaT
Aspiring Objectivist
+492|7097|Colorado
I'll take 2 please.
DonFck
Hibernator
+3,227|7056|Finland

Marconius wrote:

Reality is subjective.  It's real enough to those who actually care about it.
Many, if not most people believe blindly in what they have been taught growing up. What they have seen, heard and told from the community, is reality and truth to them. As many muslims (in extremist groups) live under the illusion that Jihad and extermination of the great Satan from the West is the truth and the right thing to do, so do we also live under the illusion that our Western culture, law and civilisation is the only correct and allowed way of living.

The peoples level of reaction is almost directly comparable to the "extremity" of the subculture (aka branch of). "Sympathy-suicides" are something that also happen in the western culture. It only takes e.g. a dead rockstar. For muslim extremists, the rockstar was Saddam.

Last edited by DonFck (2007-01-04 23:02:21)

I need around tree fiddy.
ATG
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In America, it's not sympathy suicides, its more like curiosity suicides.
CommieChipmunk
Member
+488|6995|Portland, OR, USA

ATG wrote:

In America, it's not sympathy suicides, its more like curiosity suicides.
curiosity suicides?!

I wonder what would happen if I put this noose around my neck and jumped off my balcony...hmmmm

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