I caught the first part of Jay Leno's show on the tube tonight. It disturbed me a great deal.

He was making jokes about the big mucky-muck in Iran who was killed in a bombing. This guy was reported to be one of the really big shots...one of the baddest of the bad guys and the consensus was that it was a good thing he was dead.

The audience cheered and laughed at the jokes. That was what disturbed me.

Is it ever right to rejoice in the death of a human being?
I don't care how bad the person is...is it our right to judge whether or not he should draw another breath. Is there not another way to extract justice?

Is there no sympathy for the family who might have loved him? How must they feel to hear public cheering when being told of his death?

I know how I felt when I watched the Iranians cheering and dancing when the World Trade Center was hit....it was painful to watch...I couldn't imagine every day citizens being so gleeful at such a terrible tragedy.

i know its two totally different things, but it still disturbs me that we value human life so cheaply...as if just brushing another bug off the windshield.

Do I want this guy alive and still in power? To have him preaching his hatred and urging the death of others? No, of course not. Am I happy that he will no longer be able to act in such a vile way? Of course.

But I don't feel a need to celebrate his death or to make jokes about it. He's dead. Can't we just leave it at that?

Perhaps we have become so insensitive to violence and death that it just doesn't matter anymore. Isn't that a sad state of affairs?

peace