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Pentagon said execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, would be broadcast live

The US is facing worldwide condemnation over a “barbaric” plan to execute a disabled man by firing squad and livestream it to the public, with critics comparing the Trump administration to dictatorships in Iran and Afghanistan.

The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be livestreamed on 3 December.

The United Nations’ office of the high commissioner for human rights warned on Friday that broadcasting the killing would amount to a public execution and “breach the absolute prohibition of torture”.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Being from the U.S. the only time we have seen clips of (usually blurred out) executions on tv is when the U.S. was trying to convince the population that groups like Al Qaeda or such were wretched. Basically "look at how this group performs executions they are terrorists that need to be put down themselves".

So this whole thing seems to really re-inforce the Y'all Qaeda terminology.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Al Qaeda is wretched, as is any other entity that employs terrorism to further political aims rather than limiting operations to legitimate military targets. The terrorists in charge of the MAGA movement are applying that same wretchedness in trying to shape the U.S.—and by extension the world—as they see fit, with no consideration for those they kill or otherwise harm in the process.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago

This is beyond capitalism, collapse is imminent

[–] meat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just normalizing the image of military shooting citizens.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's all part of our our descent into barbarism.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Implying we ever rose above barbarism.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago

perfect representation of America as far as I can see

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe that traditionally bread is to be provided to plebians along with the spectacle.

[–] Damage@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's gonna be diesel this time around

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hello Americans! Be sure to tune in to tonight's Antifa cleanse google^TM^ executions. Be ready scan your personal super truth freedom meta^TM^ qr code to receive your guzzoline points. Thankyou for your attention to this truth. Supreme leader eternal Trumpiest Trump at the extra-white house-of-truth.

[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 16 points 1 week ago

So sanction and cut off the US

[–] CrossingtheAbyss@lemmy.today 15 points 2 weeks ago

You can bet the barn that they will "joke" that deranged left will be tried and similarly executed.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

We can only hope that Donny’s last breath is live on tv.

[–] sealhaslupus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a great example of where people like Pete Hegseth (who is inherently corrupt) cloak their identity with religious morality to disguise their truest intentions.

It’s a shame because there are great people who are religious who get cast into the same net as this, but there are definitely others who (incorrectly) believe that a specific set of incantations will absolve them of serious, unethical behaviour.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh but there IS an incantation that saves them:

“I, Donald John Trump, pardon…”

That is, until we can mainstream the idea that corrupt pardons are inherently prohibited in the Constitution.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you watch this, you’re a massive piece of shit.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

should be mandatory viewing for everyone imo, to drive home how far things have gone/fallen

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Somehow I agree with both of you.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you watch this, you’re a massive piece of shit.

These aren't mutually exclusive positions. We're massive pieces of shit for letting it get this bad and this is like having our noses rubbed in the shit we made while being scolded, like old ways of housetraining a dog.

That said, I still won't be watching. They'll consider views as support for what they're doing, and I don't support this.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I'm inclined to agree with you. For most people their only experience of this is the movies. We hide death from the public and then wonder why so many are indifferent. It's by design. There is a reason the news doesn't show it anymore.

Show them. Let them feast their eyes on the horrors of the world.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, but this is what America voted for. Not because most Americans want it but because most Americans are simply too wrapped up in themselves to care.

Only way this could get better for Hegseth is if he got to dress Hasan in Venezuelan fishermen clothes, or an Iranian schoolgirl uniform.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

USA, Iran, Afghanistan, countries where people are executed publicly. Next, USA will begin with public hanging and leaving body for 24 hours.

Normalizing tyranny and fascism, color me unsurprised. Next it'll be sharia law - christian version.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Remember my mother letting me sit up and watch the Ceaușescu trial when I was perhaps 11.

Don't think she reckoned that they (Norwegian state broadcaster NRK) would also show the execution. Remember they (ex-dictator and wife) were lined up against a wall, then fell down and a man in a white coat checked them.

[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Preach the New Testament, practice the Old.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The trailer park administration.

[–] myyass@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[–] DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

Shamelessly reposting clip I stole from another thread: https://youtu.be/qDO6HV6xTmI