April 25, 2003
Where's the perp walk?
OK, sorry I haven't posted in a while, but I'm right now working in a job that will probably qualify me for the 8th ring of hell. How bad is this job? Let's just say that the pit of hell I'm in is somewhere above that reserved for Geraldo, but somewhere below that for televangelists, and you've probably already hung up on me. Anyway, on to the main topic.
I've noticed that there is something missing from our roundup of Ba'athists: the perp walk. The perp walk is something police departments do when they've bagged a really big fish. They let slip when and where the defendant will be brought into the station house so that the press can be there to photograph the event. We haven't done that for any of the Saddam's baddies. All the video that is being shown is when they were in power, with their swagger and their bodyguards and their trappings of power. I think it would be very instructive for the associates of Kim Jong Il and Bashar Assad to see their Iraqi compadres being pulled roughly from the back of a Hummvee with their hands cuffed behind them, and roughly escorted by a couple of soldiers/marines into a cell.
Oops. Gotta go. Off to hell work
