[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: "His corpse was then hung ..to serve as a warning"

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
"His corpse was then hung ..to serve as a warning"
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1149869920.shtml


   - describing James Gilliam, hung for piracy

   [1]deadz 

   At Dean's World, Scott Kirwin asks [2]'Should We Celebrate Zarqawi's
   Death?' I guess the photo above is my answer.

   We should not only celebrate, we should be inspired to carry out more
   of these attacks. In the future, though, we should strive for quantity
   of terrorists killed, not quality. As we learned on 9/11, it only
   takes a few terrorists to kill lots of innocent people.

   In the war against terrorism, for the most part, our government has
   focused on our fear of WMDs. They've ignored the fact that terrorists
   of all sorts have never needed WMDs. They didn't need guns on 9/11.
   Mass murdering extremists didn't need WMDs to kill hundreds of
   thousands in Rwanda. Mass murdering extremists didn't need nukes to
   slaughter millions of Jews. All they needed was a complacent
   population, [3]money, organization and hate. That's why
   terrorist-trained and financed Islamist hate is all over [4]Britain
   right now. It's all over Middle East and Europe.

   We should all try to be less complacent.

   The goal of these trained jihadis/mujahideen is to annihilate us, not
   to engage in ideological discussions. It's not an ideological war,
   it's more like our war against piracy, where we did hang them and
   leave them to rot, we did destroy their infrastructure and we did
   shoot them on sight.

   If we worry that many potential mujahideen are considering a career in
   al Qaeda, trying to win their hearts and minds is a whifty strategy at
   best. Assuring them that they will die if they join is a better
   detterrent. [5]History shows that that it worked before...

References

   1. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5461824
   2. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1149860196.shtml
   3. http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1097446020.shtml
   4. http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfilter.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200408090012
   5. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471444154/103-2206307-1895856?v=glance&n=283155