As was inevitable, the footage
As was inevitable, the footage of Daniel Pearl's murder has surfaced on the Internet, as an .ASF version of the propaganda videotape produced by his murderers. I've seen it, but won't link to it...if you want to find it, do your own searches.
After footage of Daniel mouthing scripted propagandistic comments (subtitled in Arabic) interspersed with footage of (among other things) Palestinian casualties and Sharon shaking hands with Bush, he is shown being decapitated, and his severed head is held aloft as the "National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty" slowly scrolls through its demands in English. They are:
The immediate release of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Return of Pakistani Prisoners to Pakistan
The immediate end of the US presence in Pakistan
The delivery of F-16 planes that Pakistan had paid for but never received
They warn that if these demands are not met, this scene will be repeated "again and again."
It's that last demand that gets me. These people are so fundamentally incapable of thinking normal human thoughts that it makes sense to them to slit the throat of an American, display his severed head...and then demand American military hardware.
There is only one way to deal with such barbarically stupid animals: find them, and kill them.
Any person who believes that the proper foundation of a sovereign state consists of the kidnap and murder of newspaper reporters, who cannot see the stupidly insane illogic of demanding military equipment from the government of a country whose citizens he (or she, for that matter) has sworn to kill, no longer deserves any of the basic consideration afforded to human beings. They have surrendered their human capacity for rationality in favor of the rapacious animalistic indulgence of militant religious fervor. They are to be put down like dogs, before their bloodied barking infects others.
Words cannot adequately describe the contempt with which I view these "people."
