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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"He should have been cremated and his ashes blown over the entire land. Why in the world would they create a monument to this monster that people can visit?"

Maybe they're thinking of doing what the English did to Cromwell:

"As outlandish as it might seem, there is something of a tradition of punishing dictators posthumously. In Mussolini’s case, this occurred a day after his execution. But in the case of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, it actually happened more than two years after his natural death. On January 30, 1661, a year into the restoration of the Stuart monarchy, parliament ordered the posthumous execution of the persons responsible for the regicide of the previous Stuart monarch, Charles i. So, along with those of Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, Oliver Cromwell’s remains were taken from his vault in Henry vii’s chapel and hanged and decapitated. His body was then thrown into an unmarked pit while his head sat on a pike above Westminster Hall for several years. According to the Cromwell Association, it wasn’t until March of 1960 that the head, “a rather undignified collector’s item” over the centuries, found its permanent resting place, “immured in the ante-chapel of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge,” where Cromwell had been an undergraduate."


More here:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2920421.html
30 posted on 12/31/2006 2:36:20 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Great pointer to the article "On the Disposal of Dictators." Thanks.


52 posted on 12/31/2006 5:45:57 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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