The Sweet Comfort of Madness

So where the hell is Saddam Hussein? Why hasn't the media been doing any stories on him? Do most North Americans already consider him dead? We have non-stop coverage of the Michael Jackson trial including theatrical re-enactments of the days events in the courtroom. The U.S. congress will go to some length to transform Terry Schaivo's husband into a psuedo criminal. Senior publicans in Bush's congregation continue to lie to the American public. Even the American judiciary will jail an activist for eight months for protesting at the school of the Americas where the American military has trained some particularly heinous armed forces (contras).
So if Saddam is evil incarnate, why not charge him with some crime and give him the death penalty? It would make for dynamite television, wouldn't it? I see Tom Selleck playing Saddam in the nightly made-for-T.V. re-enactment. But hold on, I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. I guess you would first have to figure out what to charge him with, keeping in mind that if he is found guilty, you would have to have death be the punishment. So what do they charge him with? Being a dictator? Being an ass hole? Being responsible for killing many of his own government officials? That, is bit of a slippery slope that slides right on down to North Korea, Indonesia, Cambodia, Columbia, Sudan, Congo etc. But as they say in Alabama : "Being an ass hole ain't against the law".
However, this is all surely academic. He most certainly will be charged with having weapons of mass destruction or links to Al Qaeda or something else the moral majority believes to be true. And make no mistake, the moral majority is in the driver's seat these days, spoon feeding the frienzied mainstream media odds and sodds to either placate the masses or keep them on code orange. Has anyone ever heard of Terry Schaivo or Michael Jackson? That's right, ad nauseum. And that's because it is a lot easier to interview a non-threatning religious whacko, than it is to ask the current American administration where the hell Saddam is, and when and what will he be charged with? Furthermore, the fact that I don't even know which continent Saddam is on, concerns me. But hey, I do know that a maid changed the shitty diaper of a monkey owned by a pervert gazillionair at a place called Neverland.
Sweet comfort!