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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 10:53 PM
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Another Reason Why Snuff Films Are Not A Good Idea!
By Larisa Alexandrovna

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/01/yet_another_rea.html

Yet another reason why snuff Films Are not a Good Idea

http://www.atlargely.com/2007/01/yet_another_rea.html



The right wing is busy celebrating the execution of Saddam Hussein by posting the full snuff film, uncut, all over the blogs. The MSM has acted no better in their eagerness to report, they instead exploited and commercialized something that was at best grotesque.

The results of such civilized behavior are enormous and I have said before how the execution and the behavior of the West will affect the Middle East. But now let's look to see how broadcasting snuff propaganda may have other consequences:





"Three children die in copycat Saddam hangings




Friday Jan 5 12:59 AEDT



ninemsn staff and wires



The deaths of an American boy, a teenage girl in India and a boy in Pakistan have been linked to the television coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution.



Relatives told police in Webster, Texas, that 10-year-old Sergio Pelico had seen the video of the former Iraqi leader's hanging and asked about it before the child hung himself on Sunday.



"We're theorising he tried to experiment or mimic the behaviour and it got out of control," Webster Police Captain Thomas Claunch said.

Police said the boy apparently went to his room, attached a piece of clothing to a bunk bed and tied it around his neck. Adults and other children were in the house at the time. "There was nothing to indicate any criminal wrongdoing," Claunch said. "It appears to be a tragic accident."




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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:32 PM
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1. Kickin it!
we don't need no stinkin' snuff films!

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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:36 PM
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2. Bizarre shit.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 11:42 PM
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3. I knew that there was absolutely no good that could come of it,
and was honestly depressed over the apparent glee exhibited by a few of the posters over in GD that night over the events.
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