Say what you will, but the Boston bomber that got killed was a human being. He was a low-down, sorry, no good, back stabbing, bushwackin', bloodthirsty human being....but he was a human being.
I never understood why people have to demonize their enemies. I suppose that if the enemy is considered as something sub-human, then it makes it all right to kill them. Hmmmm. Didn't another regime back in the 1930's and '40's think that? But, I digress.
What happened to Tamerlan Tsarnaev was nothing less and nothing more than swift justice. He got what he deserved...he should've gotten it....and now he's dead. What more can we do to him?
I know...let's deny him a proper burial. Let's all say that we don't want him in our stinking ground. If he hated America so much, then let him rot somewhere else.
You see? That's where the demonization comes in. That's when we ourselves begin to lose our sensibilities and our own humanity. Our self-worth drops when we look at other human beings....no matter how vile....as not worthy of basic respect for being one of our species. Jeffrey Dahmer got a funeral. John Wayne Gacy got a funeral. Ted Bundy got a funeral. They were just as vile, just as evil and even had a higher body count than Tamerlan. At least Tamerlan had a motive behind his urge to kill.
The funeral home director that agreed to take him in has been called un-American. No...those that have referred to him as that are un-American. Those that have referred to him as that are less than he. Somewhere, when it comes to our enemies...foreign or domestic...we have to keep our sense of decency about us. Okay...we killed our enemy. That's what we should do...or at least incarcerate them so they can't hurt anyone else. But, after that...let's not lose the essence of what we should be in the aftermath. Be glad for victory...be decent to the defeated.
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