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I wanted to eat him, not kill him, court is told
London Times ^ | 1/17/06 | Roger Boyes

Posted on 01/17/2006 5:08:19 PM PST by wagglebee

ARMIN MEIWES, the so-called Cannibal of Rothenburg, described to a horrified courtroom yesterday how he lit candles and laid out a white tablecloth and his best cutlery to dine on the dismembered corpse of a German software specialist.

“I wanted to eat him but not to kill him,” said Meiwes, 44. The computer technician was the first to speak in the retrial in Frankfurt of one of the most grisly criminal cases in modern Germany.

The victim, Bernd-Jürgen Brandes, and his future killer met over the internet, which has triggered legal confusion. Until the creation of chat rooms, it was statistically almost impossible for a cannibal to meet a willing victim. Brandes’s willingness emerged yesterday as Meiwes’s main defence. He is serving an 8½-year jail term for manslaughter but an appeals court has ruled that there is sufficient evidence for a murder conviction.

Meiwes, however, says that he assisted in a mercy killing. He told the court that he hoped his victim would either bleed to death or “jump out of a window” after he had cut off his penis. He tried to portray Brandes as suicidal.

After laying the engineer on a butcher’s table, Meiwes stabbed him in the throat, but he said yesterday that he had been sure his victim was dead.

However, a four-hour video recording of the butchery from a camera set up by Meiwes showed that Brandes was breathing shallowly before being stabbed. It will be the central piece of evidence in the retrial, expected to end in March.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arminmeiwes; cannibalism; chatrooms; cultureofdeath; homosexualagenda; meiwes; moralabsolutes; wtfiscultureofdeath
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To: wagglebee

This is illogical. Since the net result of eating someone is to kill them, then by any reasonable standard, this person is a murderer with full mens rea. He intended his acts and the results of his acts.


21 posted on 01/17/2006 5:29:53 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: little jeremiah; scripter; DirtyHarryY2K; EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ..

Moral Absolutes - Homosexual Agenda Ping.

The depravity of some is disgusting beyond words.


22 posted on 01/17/2006 5:30:15 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

If this were to happen in the US I'm sure the ACLU would be defending this beast. After all isn't it everyone's right to do anything they want? What a sick freak. I'd volunteer to put a bullet in his brain.


23 posted on 01/17/2006 5:41:45 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: latina4dubya
Meiwes cut Brandes balls off while a few other people that wanted to watch hung from the ceiling(from the net, which Meiwes charged a lot of money to watch), then placed Brandes in the bathtub. Meiwes sautéed Brandes balls which they both eat some of them. But they where not ‘cooked’ enough (they where hard and chewy) so they didn’t finish them. That night Brandes managed to get out of the tub walk down stairs and told Meiwes that if he is alive tomorrow they could both have them for breakfast. Brandes died that night in the bathtub. Meiwes videotaped everything.

this is all from memory of what took place. It is hard to forget a story like that.

24 posted on 01/17/2006 5:44:33 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric cartman voice* “I love you guys”)
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To: wagglebee

I hope no animals were harmed. We wouldn't want to pi$$ of PETA.


25 posted on 01/17/2006 5:45:33 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Native Texan)
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To: wagglebee

Putting aside all moral issues here I can't imagine that a middle aged man would be very tasty. It's generally true with mammals that the young ones are the best and the old ones are tough and only good for stewing or burger.


26 posted on 01/17/2006 5:45:52 PM PST by elmer fudd
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To: little jeremiah

LJ!!!! Wecome back my friend!! So good to see you back with us again. Is there any word on DirtyHarry?

This thread is too depraved for words!


27 posted on 01/17/2006 5:51:40 PM PST by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
The notion that this monster is alive is sickening.

The notion that he is getting to promote his evil is sickening.
28 posted on 01/17/2006 6:22:10 PM PST by Delphinium
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To: wagglebee

I really, really wish I didn't read this. Please, no pings to this or anything like this!


29 posted on 01/17/2006 7:23:39 PM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Old Grumpy
We need to bring him over here and put him in the same prison Jeffrey Dahmer was in.

No. What we need to do is raid the German prison, free him, and put him on a plane to Lebanon.

Robert Stethem, Rest In Peace

30 posted on 01/17/2006 8:37:22 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (The heart of the wise man inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Eccl. 10:2)
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To: wagglebee

Tall tree, short rope.


31 posted on 01/18/2006 5:28:43 AM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: wagglebee

Certainly makes the phrase 'Eat Me' take on new dimensions.


32 posted on 01/18/2006 5:32:59 AM PST by sargunner
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To: wagglebee

<< The notion that this monster could ever be allowed out of prison is sickening. >>

Why not?

After all, following to the letter the demands of her mass-murdering terroristic Hezbollar masters, the "new 'conservative' German chancellor," on her way to DC to lecture our president about the horrors of Guantanamo Bay, to bail an anti-American German "journalist," just paid Hezbollah a Five Million Dollar ransom, cancelled Germany's participation in the training of Iraq's security forces and released from prison and parolled to Lebanon the monstrous torturer and murderer of United States Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem.

Reckon the gutless gas-chamber-operator bastards deserve as many german-eating cannibals among 'em as can be russled up.


33 posted on 01/18/2006 7:25:41 AM PST by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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To: wagglebee

He gave up clowns a while back because they tasted funny.


34 posted on 01/18/2006 7:26:17 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (Chuck Cooperstein is a tool.)
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To: stylecouncilor

ping


35 posted on 01/18/2006 11:27:59 AM PST by windcliff
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