[fla-left] Bloody execution photos draw gamut ofresponses(fwd)

[Max Sawicky]

> Why not make a distinction between social services and state repression?
> Both are done by the government, but the former can be and most often is
> good (health care, old age pension, trash collection, schooling, etc.),
> while the increase of the latter (the police and the military) is against
> the interest of the working class.
> Yoshie

I don't see this execution as an instance of state repression.
In fact, not executing him could be called an episode of
state oppression.

I'll repeat that all the arguments about efficacy, legality,
social effects, and repression are legitimate, though not
necessarily persuasive in all dimensions.  What doesn't 
pass muster is anything based on sympathy for the
condemned, which is what the pictures are all about.
Insofar as the gore of an execution and/or sympathy
for the victim are key to the case, then it is clearly
lacking, on both an intellectual and moral level.

mbs