No, you didnt say you surport torture but you said
That's very close to what people were saying about David Hicks, especially Howard. "Oh he's a terrorist so who cares if he was tortured".
You are comparing Hicks to Gadhafi?
And where did I say i supported torture? Link?
His crimes are one thing and surly irrelevant now he's dead.
I'm sorry, what?
Do you want to say that to his victims who managed to survive and to the families of those who died?
However the crimes that were commited against him are just as horrific and deserve just as great a penalty as if they were commited against anyone else.
The person who shot him was actually a minor, from what I understand.
And while what was done to him was horrific, I would hardly say it is just as horrific to what he did during his 42 year reign. To claim it so is a bit obscene and ridiculous in my opinion.
The very basis of our society is that it no matter what you don't get to inflict your own penalty.
And in a society that has dropped into anarchy and they have their hands on the very man who made their lives hell for 42 years, do you really think they were going to stop and say 'no, no, we do not have the right to inflict our own penalty'?
Just like you cant run your ex over with a car and a parent who's child was abducted and murdered by a paedophile doesn't get to kill the perpetrator and they certainly don't get to torture them,
If someone murders my child and/or rapes them. I will kill them.
why is this any different?
Possibly because the people who killed them had endured suffering and pain and fear for all of their lives and they got to exact their revenge. I don't think they went about it the right way, but it was their ultimate choice. No one really knows who did it all yet. I would personally have preferred he be captured alive and put on trial and humiliated in public for all the evils he pertrated on the people of Libya and on others, but that's just me.
He was not a sad victim. What was done to him does not nullify the evils he committed while he ruled.