A few thoughts on Sadaams Execution
Austin Bay
Austin Bay had my favorite analysis of the hanging (And I have spent many hours over the past day or so reading and watching on television the various responses to Sadaams Death – I even plugged my nose and watched Chris Matthews sunday talk show). I also enjoyed Hannity in Iraq and O’Reilly in Iraq on Fox News today. I really enjoyed hearing the first hand messages from the troops, and found myself crying a little as they spoke lovingly to family members and loved ones back home.
But Blogger Bay had the most insightful analysis in my opinion:
He gave the citizens of Iraq the full credit for having the gumption to hold Sadaam accountable for his crimes against the people of Iraq. Comparing him to all the tyrants of the 20th century who mostly died peacefully in their own beds, Mr. Bay outlined the fact that only Iraq had the will to hold a fair trial and then use the Rule of Law to establish justice for the tyrant.
History will record this fact and the precedent has been set for this sort of justice to be the standard for the future. I hope by now the rest of the petty tyrants in our world have watched the video of Sadaams fall with that rope around his neck. I hope they have realized that the day of the tyrant is slowly winding down in our world, and the vision of Jefferson is now being realized, not just in America, but in other parts of the world…
“I know, indeed, that some honest men fear that a republican government can not be strong, that this Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world’s best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself?
I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the law, and would meet invasions of the public order as his own personal concern.
Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter–with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
Still one thing more, fellow-citizens–a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.”
Sadaam was the grotesque caricature of the 20th century tyrant. He epitomized the fullness of degraded despostism. And as he set out to perfect Russian style Collectivism based on his adoration and reverence for his hero Joseph Stalin, he murdered his own sons in law and members of their families when they threatened to go public with his WMD ambitions.
With his cult of personality enshrined on every bit and piece of Iraqi culture, he was the antithesis of good government defined by President Jefferson. His death by Law was the perfect beginning to the new millennium. It has set the standard for all of the democracy movements that are to come. My prayer is that with or without US help the oppressed in our world will look to establish the rule of law in their own lands, and then use that Law to hold the despots accountable.
Let Freedom Ring!
Jenny Hatch
Natural Family Blog Archive 🌹 The First 20 Years 