Are they charging admission to see Khaddafy's frozen body?

[kentuck]

Nothing good can come from this.

Reportedly, the rebels have put the dead dictator's body in a freezer at a mall and curious people are paraded thru to view his body?

It's difficult to imagine how a stable government can be formed from such uncivilized behavior?

He's dead. It's over. Bury him. Celebrate your freedom but don't celebrate death. Karma is not nice to grave dancers.

I hope the Libya people can get their shit together but this is not a good start...

[NYC_SKP]

1. Disagree. Let the people see the body as fairly convincing PROOF that the rat bastard is Dead.

Cuz they don't all have iPads and such over there...

This isn't new, this sort of thing.

Let the people have their viewing, I say.

[shraby]

2. Probably many many people want to confirm his death

to their own satisfaction. I suppose after living under his rule for 40 some years, it would be hard to believe that they are free of him.

[HappyMe]

3. I agree.

They have a long, hard road ahead of them.

[piratefish08]

4. i paid $2 to see the frozen ice man. i think it must have been 1979ish?

he was displayed i the middle of our recently opened new Mall.

i miss 1979.

[Raschel]

7. Really. What ice man? I do remember the "freak" shows at the state fair.

[piratefish08]

10. i could google the details..... i believe it was exposed as a hoax......

it was a national thing i remember - the frozen fucker toured the US.......

i was 13ish - it was as real as real could be for me!


i'm going to google now.

[piratefish08]

14. yup. i'm not crazy after all! i present to you the Minnesota Iceman!

http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/mnbf/iceman.html

http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/showman_hansen.htm

[Raschel]

5. Not all Libyans are "uncivilized". And we have plenty of uncivilized behavior in the US. Plus

we were a democracy when we had a John Dillinger viewing.

[spanone]

6. considering he fucked them over for forty some years...

[kentuck]

8. Is the person who shot him a hero or a criminal?

Grey Poupon, anyone?

[Bragi]

9. Agreed: "don't celebrate death"

There is nothing elevating or noble about a crazed mob kicking someone to death. Anyone who thinks it resembles "justice" should really have little problem with how Ghaddafi operated.

[riverwalker]

11. "uncivilized behavior"

"It's difficult to imagine how a stable government can be formed from such uncivilized behavior?" I guess we are still asking that question, aren't we?


Sand Creek, Colorado, in 1864, an US Army Colonel named John Chivington killed unarmed Native Americans, and brought the body parts to the Denver Opera House to display.
"One officer who was present said later, "Women and children were killed and scalped, children shot at their mother's breasts, and all the bodies mutilated in the most horrible manner. The dead bodies of females were profaned in such a manner that the recital is sickening.
The troopers cut off the vulvas of Indian women, stretched them over their saddle horns, then decorated their hatbands with them; some used the skin of brave's scrotums and the breasts of Indian women as tobacco pouches,
then showed off these trophies, together with the noses and ears of some of the Indians they had massacred, at the Denver Opera House."

[randome]

12. Instead of moralizing to the Libyans...

...let them take care of matters on their own. I'm tired of hearing Americans castigate them for not being perfect or for not doing things the way they should have been done according to some unwritten standard of morality.

Libya has its work cut out for it.

Let's leave it be.

[kentuck]

15. "Let's leave it be"..

is moralizing in itself.

[Ezlivin]

13. No, but if you "like" him on Facebook

you get to a page where you can make a PayPal donation.

[Kurmudgeon]

16. It's their country, let them celebrate. Reality will rear it's ugly head soon enough.

[Desertrose]

17. ...and we dumped Bin Laden's body within how many hours??

That was BS and this is disgusting.

Why didn't he get the immediate burial required of a Muslim???

[AngkorWot]

21. Because they purposefully want to deny him a muslim burial.

Duh.

[Desertrose]

22. and they were SO worried about a proper Muslim burial for Bin Laden...

Yeah right.

Somethin'smells fishy about these political murders and it ain't just OBL at the bottom of the sea.

[AngkorWot]

23. I don't think the Libyans buried bin Laden

:shrug:

[AmirDal]

18. Libya is a socialist country. Give them a little time to learn western ways

[Odin2005]

19. Are you just as angry with what Italians did to Mussolini?

[AngkorWot]

20. "nothing good can come from this"

They have important people lay in state here in the US too.

Granted, it's not usually in celebration. But there's nothing wrong with being happy about a dead Gaddhafi.

"I hope the Libya people can get their shit together but this is not a good start..."

Tell it to the Libyans.

[Codeine]

24. They took out a 40-year-dictator. That's the very definition of getting their shit together. nt

[RZM]

25. Not at all unusual

There are always many people who want to see the body of a famous person. It matters little whether that person was loved, hated, or both. The motivations depend on their reputation, but the core desire to see the actual body is there in all cases.

Just take Mussolini and Stalin. Hell, it's 2011 and Lenin is STILL in that mausoleum in Red Square (whether that's really him or not isn't relevant at this point).

Even the Notorious B.I.G.'s casket was paraded through Brooklyn.

This doesn't say much, other than that Ghaddafi was a 'big man' and that there are plenty of people who are happy he's dead. He'll be in the ground (or scattered to the winds) soon enough.

[jberryhill]

26. The Russians still go to see Lenin

[lunatica]

27. People who don't want to see it don't have to

[sad sally]

28. What about the repeat pictures of a bloody dead body being shown over and

over on American TV? Is this done to ingrain hated as a norm, and lust for blood and death, so killing evil leaders on the spot becomes the accepted form of justice?

We who are heirs of a complex civilization are charged with one major historical task: to aid the world in achieving true culture. It is up to us to make the light of truly humanitarian culture shine throughout the world.