Comments on: Filmer of Saddam Execution Arrested http://gigaom.com/video/filmer-of-saddam-execution-arrested/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:40:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shefaly http://gigaom.com/video/filmer-of-saddam-execution-arrested/#comment-442657 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 12:05:30 +0000 http://newteevee.wordpress.com/2007/01/04/filmer-of-saddam-execution-arrested/#comment-442657 Apprehending one person, when he is simply in with the emerging cultural changes wrought by technology, is a bit silly. I understand making an exemplar of one person in a high profile case – be it Martha Stewart in insider trading or someone like this guard – is a temptation for authorities, but they can hardly stop this trend of people shoving their phone cameras in situations where they should not.

Addressing the larger moral and political issues – whether hanging is ok, whether a person, however horrid, deserves to die with dignity, whether this makes him a martyr and does more damage than the ‘publiciser’could envisage, whether this mockery will only serve to be grist to the mill of Iraq’s brewing civil problems – would be harder than arresting one man.

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