So I read and watched with amazement the news on the BBC website that crackpot genocidal maniac Saddam Hussein has been found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.
Wow
I mean I didn’t know that people still got hanged. On hearing the verdict my mind shot back to old Robin Hood movies, the thought of a public execution. I wonder whether it will be televised - after all the execution of the guy who had such a tight grip on the lives of so many people for so long could have a massive impact on the stability of the nation - something that would benefit both the US and the UK given the increasing domestic unrest with the cost of the operation in terms of money and lives lost.
Of course a public execution means that YouTube would have the busiest day of its relatively short life.
Would I watch someone being hanged? Interesting question that, and I don’t have an answer. After all the hanging of Saddam will be a historical moment, something that people will talk about for many years to come, until the Americans finally catch up with Osama. However I’m not sure I want to see someone hanged, and yet some part of me wonders what it really looks like…
