Reply #77: AMAZING EDITORIAL - About This - Opinio Juris Blog

[otohara]

When I was a kid in the 1950's, my dad had some hidden war memoribilia from WWII that I found in the basement. It was a variety of things, but among them was a photograph of the corpse of Benito Mussolini.

In the picture, Mussolini is lying dead on the floor and a woman is standing on his face with the heels of her high heeled shoes in his eye sockets. All around the woman people are smiling and laughing, a man gallantly extends his hand to her to help her balance on Mussolini's face. The woman has a big smile on her face too.

I was young, maybe 8 or 9, and this confused the hell out of me. The juxtaposition of death, mutilating a dead body and happy, smiling people was just too disconcerting.

I'm not confused anymore. I get it now. I also understand the French Revolution and Marie Antionette's unhappy end. I understand the Russian Revolution and why the Tsar's family were horribly murdered.

Most people never want anything to do with that kind of horrible mob mentality. But, there comes a time, when the insane madness of rulers intoxicated with their own power and uncaring about the devastation they cause, when otherwise normal people snap.

And I wonder, when people in this country truly realize what has been done in our name and what now is being done to us, will we snap too? http://lawofnations.blogspot.com/2006/02/fox-news-insightful-analysis-of.html#comments