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Originally Posted by Eric
Dictators and despots often meet undignified ends .... there are lots of examples in the historical record, some recent, some not. Not too much dignified about what happened to Richard lll (1485, I believe) ... and poor Cromwell, dug up and hanged ... and Mussolini: upside down from a lamp post.
In a way, I kinda admire the guy ... he was a little weird, but there again Michael Jackson wasn't all that normal either; however, he said he would win or he would die. He had the balls to face what he knew was his inevitable fate. Good for him.  |
Yes......I realise that dictators and despots usually get their comeuppance........I just don't really want to
see how gruesome men can be to each other. Maybe that is a fault in me....and I'm not saying the news must be sanitised for people like me........tell me about it, but please spare me the gruesome pictures.
Eric, just as an aside....has anybody ever defined what 'normal' is?