In a nutshell, the core of the real Conradesque horror here - the real purpose of the Saddam Hussein snuff videos - is to roll back the Enlightenment in one stroke, to inure all of us to torment and death and brutality, to tell us that we are still living in the days of the rope, and of painful death by government order.

The tremendous and incalculable subconscious power of these Saddam snuff films - is that we have seen someone we feel we know well, subjected to what we at least subconsciously realise is a barbaric, mediaeval, pre-Enlightenment form of tormenting death. I think our civilisation will suffer from these videos for at least a generation.

With even the 'milder' BBC snuff video of Saddam Hussein - video play at will on the front page of the BBC website for a time, and now replicated forever on the web and in endless web video archives, along with the even more horrid version - now the entire developed world has been hurled morally backwards, in one savage stroke of US propaganda.

The people of the developed world have now been led to feel, to see with their hearts and in their nightmares, that death by ancient torture is a given, that it is normal and acceptable according to Western societies. They see with the Saddam hanging, that such things can happen to people they know well, with people whom they have gotten used to having a kind of virtual dialogue. And people see that one's death by mediaeval barbaric torment, will serve as fodder on video for the entire globe's ghoulish and perverted entertainment.

Much of this is operating subconsciously, rather than consciously. But one can feel that the whole earth now has been moved to a different place, it is quite much more 'Nazified' now, in the way that Nazi leader Himmler suggested.

I think the Saddam Hussein snuff films have laid the psychological groundwork for coming wars, for more torture and terror, for a coming dark age, for a 21st century that may bring even more horror than the 20th.

The effects of these snuff films are really incalculable. You can even see the trauma in the statements being made by leaders and media and governments.

Some people might think that it is a good thing, for example, that the Saddam snuff films have made all earthly rulers somewhat more deeply afraid. Even US Vice President Dick Cheney is now subconsciously thinking it might be himself one day in that noose, for his own war crimes.

But everybody knows that it was not Saddam's crimes that put him there - many others have done worse crimes. And many others are tortured to death even though being innocent. Everybody knows the trial of Saddam was a sham, which is rather noteworthy given that Saddam's crimes actually merited a real trial.

Really, it was just the circumstances by which he fell into certain hands which led to Saddam's hanging. His past crimes were the pretext, not the reason, he was hanged. 

And everyone understands here that it is Bush and Blair and the US and UK governments that are the hangmen, getting revenge on those who stood in their way.

So the snuff films of Saddam, instead of encouraging moral behaviour, will in fact make many governments worse and more desperate - more eager to get the power, or commit the kind of more successful crimes, that they imagine will keep them safe.

The message of the Saddam snuff films, is that the Enlightenment is no longer. The message of the Saddam snuff films is that there are only the hangmen and the hanged, and we are all in barbarism.

Very clearly, the Saddam snuff videos are designed to create more war and conflict, as America stages a mediaeval-torment death for a major Arab head of state. And there are all the other aspects designed to create war and conflict - doing the snuff film on a Muslim holy day and so on.

The Saddam snuff videos have brought us much closer to the War Without End, and it has in a single stroke brutalized the populace of the West. The Saddam snuff videos have ripened the people of the West for a new Nazi night.

Heinrich Himmler's ideas live now with the Americans, and with the corporate media powers that serve the Americans' interests.

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1. 07-01-2007 01:54

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Interested on different views.

David Michael LUDWIG

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