One more argument for some kind of public torturing policy

[Beefy]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article873716.ece

Warning: video on the page, should you choose to hit play, will anger you.

[dazie]

WTF?!?!

[Jessie]

What is wrong with people?  Seriously.

[grace]

what a very sick prick...

[Bennyhana]

People think
it's hard to be a woman;
but it's not easy
to be a man,
the expectations people have
that a man should be a civilized person
of course I think everyone should be civilized
men and women both
but when push comes to shove
say you have some bad people
who are invading your country
raping your own wives and daughters
and now we see:
this happens all the time
all around the world
and then a person wants a man
who can defend his home

you can say, yes, it was men who started this
there's no such thing as good guys and bad guys
only guys
and they kill people
but if you are a man who doesn't want to be a bad guy
and you try not to be a bad guy
it doesn't matter
because even if it is possible to be good
and you are good
when push comes to shove
and people need defending
then no one wants a good guy any more

then they want a man who can fuck someone up
who can go to his target like a bullet
burst all bonds
his blood hot
howling up the bank
rage in his heart
screaming
with every urge to vomit
the ground moving beneath his feet
the earth alive with pounding
the cry hammering in his heart
like tanked up motors turned loose
with no brakes to hold them

this noxious world

and then when it's over
suddenly
when this impulse isn't called for any longer
a man is expected to put it away
carry on with life
as though he didn't have such impulses
or to know that, if he does
he is a despicable person
and so it may be that when a man turns this violence on a woman
in her bedroom
or in the midst of war
slamming her down, hitting her,
he should be esteemed for this
for informing her
about what it is that civilization really contains
the impulse to hurt side by side with the gentleness
the use of force as well as tenderness
the presence of coercion and necessity
because it has just been a luxury for her really
not to have to act on this impulse or even feel it
to let a man do it for her
so that she can stand aside and deplore it
whereas in reality
it is an inextricable part of the civilization in which she lives
on which she depends
that provides her a long life, longer usually than her husband,
and food and clothes
dining out in restaurants
and going on vacations to the oceanside
so that when a man turns it against her
he is showing her a different sort of civilized behavior really
that she should know and feel intimately
as he does
to know the truth of how it is to live on earth
to know this is part not just of him
but also of her life
not go through life denying it
pretending it belongs to another
rather knowing it as her own
feeling it as her own
feeling it as a part of life as intense as love
as lovely in its way as kindness
because to know this pain
is to know the whole of life
before we die
and not just some pretty piece of it
to know who we are
both of us together
this is a gift that a man can give a woman.

[Bennyhana]

Oh, and Remember to Support the Troops, everyone!

(Some of the troops are assholes.  Some of them are turned into assholes to be able to live with themselves as they kill people)

[Alice]

Oh, and Remember to Support the Troops, everyone!

(Some of the troops are assholes.  Some of them are turned into assholes to be able to live with themselves as they kill people)

One of my friends is the latter.  Having to shoot a 7 year old girl because she's coming at you with a bomb pretty much means you have to turn into an asshole to deal with anything.  He's getting better.  Kinda.

[Beefy]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0414092dog1.html

[ReBurn]

I bet I know why the dog bites her.

[Beefy]

Put this little asshole down, now.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/06/florida.cat.killer.charges/index.html