Saddam's Execution

I stumbled across Chuck Currie's blog recently, and hope to meet him someday. He's an advocate for the poor and a United Church of Christ minister here in Portland.

Chuck has a good summary of world Christian reaction to Saddam Hussein's execution. He certainly deserves to die, but was it right to kill him? I have become increasingly convinced that to "kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong" is unreasonable, morally wrong, and against Jesus' teaching. It also does not work as a deterrent, according to studies I've heard about. And some have said that if capital punishment is wrong, it's always wrong.

Something to think about.

Bush the Noble Bipartisan?

Via Daily Kos, an interesting post on how our corporate media is portraying George W. Bush as a noble bipartisan. I pray that's the case, but I'll believe it when I see it. Worse, it is predicting that the Democrats will be the petty ones. This is possible, and even understandable given the unprecedented oppression that they endured under Republican rule. But I don't think it will happen. The media may portray it that way, but it won't be true. In my opinion, the jury is still out as to whether the Dems will have the courage to do much of anything to counter this administration.

Anyway, the narrative of the corporate media continues to be the opposite of the widely-reported "liberal bias."