Saddam Hussein
I still find it hard to digest that in a society such as ours, where we call ourselves technologically, socially and ethically advanced, where we talk in abstractions and lay claim to thought, we can, as a system, sentence a fellow to death and revel in it.
There is no finality as death and only those who have not known an existence can help being saddened by its termination.
Yesterday it was neither a great general that was killed, nor a criminal that was punished, nor a man killed by another. It was the entirety that was killed by a minority - universalities were thrown away to prove the superiority of a locality.
Yesterday was a judgement that perhaps a Daniel came to or perhaps that of a bigoted generation. But the fact that it was a judgement of a majority over a minority will always taint it.
There is no finality as death and only those who have not known an existence can help being saddened by its termination.
Yesterday it was neither a great general that was killed, nor a criminal that was punished, nor a man killed by another. It was the entirety that was killed by a minority - universalities were thrown away to prove the superiority of a locality.
Yesterday was a judgement that perhaps a Daniel came to or perhaps that of a bigoted generation. But the fact that it was a judgement of a majority over a minority will always taint it.