The World Cheers for Murder

I'm sure everyone has heard or read in the news this weekend about Saddam Hussein being sentenced to death by hanging. That in itself wasn't a big shock since he was purposfully tried in a court that can legally give out capital punishment. However, what shocked and disgusted me so much, was the international reaction not just by country leaders and ministers but also by people on the net or people in my surroundings whom I though to be well-educated, intellectual people. Everyone is cheering. Accept for Amnesty International and Angel, I have yet to hear someone raise a finger and go "erm... wait a sec".

Don't get me wrong. That asshole needs to be punished. Greatly. I had just preferred he'd by trialed by a UN court that recognizes the Human Rights according to the Human Rights Treaty.
I'm against death penalty and I won't make an exception just cause everyone around me screams it. I don't hate people who are pro capital punishment, it's their opinion however the one thing bothers me so much isthe hypocracy I saw the past 2 days in people who say they are against the death penalty, and yet for Saddam, they make an exception. That's a double standard. People say Turkey should not be allowed in the EU cause they still have capital punishment, however when the big evil gets it, then we'll have a party and we talk of justice.

If you're all for death penalty, great, fine you can have your party but those people who think the world is so black and white that they can shove all "evil" people in the exception bucket, gah... I'm really dissapointed. You cannot be against death penalty, and then make an exception. Then you are FOR it.

I can understand that his victims want him dead. That's a natural thing. Wanting revenge. I can't blame them.

However, the people who bother me so much, are people like our Prime Minister, the leader of a western country, publicly saying that "justice has been served" whereas we are supposed to be a civilized country and we have banned death penalty years ago. That pisses me off. And not just our prime minister. It seems everyone agrees.

Am I standing completely alone here?

I feel like this:
Especially someone like a dictator, being HUNG, with, I'm sure, the whole world watching, makes him the center of the world in the last seconds of his life. He will get all the attention, good or bad, that he doesn't deserve. He'll be killed so he'll be like a martyr. He doesn't deserve it. He will go with all that power. All eyes on him. And even if it's not gonna be on TV everyone will think of him when it happens and he will know that. His victims or their families will see him/ think of him. Hate thim. Fear Him. Feel pain in their hearts. That is power. And he will have it.

Now tell me, to a guy who wants nothing more than have power and sow fear in people's heart, if that sentence is carried out, he will die, doing exactly that.

If he had been trialed by the ICC or a UN tribunal he would have gotten a fair trial, sentenced to life and died as a tiny old man, all alone, with noone giving a shit.

Anyhoo that's what I think. And I need to believe in this justice system cause otherwise we might all just carry guns and shoot anyone we think deserves it. Cause normally, you don't shoot people, but this one guy he beat up your friend, so he deserves it...

*sigh*

Mankind is doomed. We are such fucking scum.