"No,there's no end; the end is death and madness!"

[fpb]

According to an Italian newspaper, American and Iraqi forces have identified an Iraqi doctor, head of a hospital for mental illness, as the man who supplied the terrorists with two Down's Syndrome victims who were then sent into the crowd at a pet market in Baghdad a week or so ago. Apparently this man gained his job because his predecessor, whose

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[filialucis]

If you heard a nasty whirring noise just now, it was the sound of my stomach turning.

[fpb]

God has taken the victims into Heaven, cleared their sight, straightened their senses, and led them to everlasting life. They are where there is no pain any more, no sorrow and no sighing. And if there is any justice, those who abused them are just as surely bound for the deepest pits of Hell.

I cannot even say how this news makes me feel. I want to scream, I want to yell loud enough to be heard across the world. I want to howl that rather than have peace with such creatures, let there be war for a thousand years, war till the end of time; that to even begin to let them live is to consent to the horror that they are, and that I for one will never, never, never consent to it. We owe it to our common humanity to hunt them down and lock them up like diseased animals.

There is no bottom floor to Hell.

[johncwright]

When I was reading up on Nazism, one of the things that continually surprised me was how, no matter how depraved, dishonest, and sick the Nazis seemed to me, I would find out some additional thing they had done -- such as murdering a loyal Nazi officer's wife who boarded a Death Train by mistake, or such as gassing mental patients, or such as Hitler chiding members of his party for being unwilling to strong-arm, kidnap or kill other Nazis who stood in the way of their ambitions -- who seemed even worse. Each level of Hell, when you thought you struck bottom, opened up under foot to reveal a deeper abyss yet

Re: There is no bottom floor to Hell.

[fpb]

Perhaps that is what CS Lewis meant when he said that "God in His mercy made the fixed pains of Hell"; that left to itself, human evil would never find an end. But as for us, let us follow the words of another great English writer: "Do your worst, and we shall do our best."

[moonspinner]

These "Creatures"? That is strong language. If every paedophile/serial killer in America were to be taken as the token American personality, then it would be just as easy to call the Americans "Creatures". What about the Iraqi doctor who was killed because he tried to protect his patients?

Generalization is never a good thing.

[fpb]

Perhaps you imagine that I am saying that we are at war with the Iraqi doctor. I cannot see why. It should have been clear that I was speaking about his murderers (among their other crimes). Please read what I write.

[norwyn]

The news of these creatures (you have my support with that word-this calls for strong language) using people with Down's Syndrome was horrible. When I hear things like this, I can only tearfully respond with "How long, Oh Lord?"

My heart just rips at the thought of any disabled person being tortured so cruelly...I don't know if you are aware, but I have spent years (17) working with special needs populations, and have two special kids of my own: my boy has pdd/nos (autism), and my girl has a mild speech/language disorder. How can you forgive this action? How do you negotiate with souless creatures? God bless the doctor who was killed for protecting his patients; no, we are not at war with him or with the Iraqi citizens who find such conduct intolerable.

You are blunt, mince no words, and suffer no fools...I find myself agreeing with you more often than not. May I add you to my friend list?

[fpb]

I am involved in the disabled movement myself, so, yeah, I understand. And yes, I am honoured, and I'll friend you back.

[johncwright]

My son is autistic. He is the most beautiful boy.

If I were an atheist, the thought would never cease to torment me that no proper, due, and proportionate justice would ever visit the killers who can imagine and do such horrid acts. Human beings do not have the power to visit endless pain on human beings, or, in this case on ex-human beings.

[headnoises]

The folks I know with autism and Downs syndrome are amazingly *nice* folks-- innocent, even.

(isn't that kind of a major way of seeing of autism? They're just too unworldly/innocent?)

To be able to attack those...I'm not sure if it's more or less or just as bad as using a baby to hurt folks, honestly, I just know it's really, really bad.

[fpb]

You are so far from understanding anything about me, you are on another planet. However, I simply do not want to put up with your disgusting fantasies any more. You are banned. Kindly vanish and do not reappear. If you want to indulge your pathetic need to create straw to hate, do it on your own time and in your blog.