The real thing isn't so funny.
Please don't hit the play button unless you understand that you will see the actual execution.
I can't believe that it's just the poor quality of the video that makes this so medieval - it's like something from the Inquisition...
posted by Gavin Corder at 12:13 PM
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The person who filmed this has been arrested. Horrible.
It's a lynch mob. It's disgusting.
Gavin, much as part of me wants to have a look - I don't trust you since that car ad!
It is the real thing Paul. Complete with the drop and choking face... Grim but not surprising.
Gavin, I watched it through my fingers, with the sound turned down.I thought the prisoner was only supposed to stand there a second before they opened the trap door , not ages.
As someone else said, it was a lynch mob.
Bit of an own goal PR-wise really curmy.
Sorry. I did say it was gruesome. I hope I posted it because I thought it should be seen.
Funnily enough I have a copy of a publication called 'Images of the Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party, which depicts Comrade Michel Aflaq, the Founding Leader and the Secretary General. And overleaf Comrade Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, Deputy General Secretary and President of the Republic pictured with Comrade Saddam Hussein The assistant Secretary General, Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council.
It all started so well.
I must post about it.
To be honest it is the best publicity anyone could ever give to those who campaign for the abolition of the death penalty wherever it exists. I am glad that I oppose death as a punishment even for evil bastards such as Saddam. Life is a far worse punishment.
Funnily enough I found it oddly unemotional. Mind you I can't get the sound to work.
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