Posted on 12/30/2006 5:26:38 PM PST by fanfan
Warning.
This is the video.
Click on the link above.
Ping!
The very concept of rights is founded in religion.
Since the enlightened person is freed from any superstitions about some "God," they are free from having to worry about "rights." Only raw power counts and humans are just meat puppets for the powerful.
Look at this puppet on a string...
http://pandachute.com/videos/leaked_saddam_being_hung_video
man that sudden drop comes like a freight train huh....
Is Michael Richards there?
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping --
placemark again -- watching Pres. Ford's funeral right now.
It's supposed to do that.
Fast and painless, which is better than Saddam offered his foes.
This video is not convincing. There is a matter of a few seconds then Saddam is on the ground, presumably dead. I can hold my breath way longer than the interval shown on this video. I have a problem with the trench coat that could have hidde a harness, and the material around his neck that could have hidden a collar. This is the way we fake hangings in the theatre.
http://yarchive.net/med/hanging.html
QUESTION: I have recently read that hanging victims died instantly because of a broken neck. Is this true? To me it sounds a bit unlikely: there are many people who have broken their necks and are still alive. Marco
ANSWER: No, the only thing that happens when you break your neck is that you don't kick and dance. It adds the pain of a broken neck to the first few seconds of the experience.
By all acounts death by hanging is only unpleasant during the time you want to breathe but can't, and you begin to lose consciousness due
to carotid artery constriction (following which the semi-conscious
events, by accounts of survivors, are quite pleasant, due to endorphins
released as the brain dies of ischemia-- the tremenous sense of
euphoria, calm, the white light, and so on). That's 10 or 15 seconds
if the noose is done correctly. The best way be hanged is probably
after taking a deep breath (so you don't need to breathe for the next
15 seconds) and having a noose which is well oiled and constricts well.
The neck-breaking is quite optional. Obviously, there are various ways
it can be bungled. But before 1850 when "the long drop" was pioneered
by Britain's hangmen, there are numberous accounts of people hanged by
the old method, who didn't struggle at all. Major John Andre, for
instance.
Whether your neck breaks or not, the time it takes the heart to
stop can be a few minutes to almost 20. Breaking the neck sucessfully
seems to shorten this time a bit, for reasons I don't fully understand,
but not by a great deal, and not infallably. And the tradeoffs, as
remarked, aren't worth it.
It sure ain't pretty, but it leaves absolutely no doubt that Saddam has left the building...
Looks like the MSM got scooped, again...
that about sums it up
Game over.
Freak on a Leash
doesn't it, though...reminded me of the sound from the movie "Hang em High", with Clint Eastwood.
Time slows down in the mind, in a crisis, I am sure Saddam had plenty of time to think about things until the rope tightened up.
Are you a Moon Landing or 9/11 doubter?
It has the nice creepiness of a horror movie
I give it two thumbs up. The cinematography left a little to be desired, but the plot was outstanding. Best movie of the year, hands down!
Freak on a leash indeed. Now let's break out with some "Dead Bodies Everywhere"! Thanks for the ping.
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