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[Lasairfiona]

This deserves its own thread.

[ShadowCell]

[Thy Brilliance]

Oh god, have you heard the guys that are now fabricating conspiracy theories between Hitler and Osama Bin Laden because their deaths were announced on the same day.

[Thy Brilliance]

Gonna dump some random info.

34.146372, 73.216922 coordinates of the mansion.

look it up in google maps or something

man, there was a freakin golf course right there, there will be jokes about this for days

[Catel]

[Mizike]

I've got to say, I don't have any powerful reactions to this news. I'm certainly not upset that a mass-murderer has been killed. And I'm slightly pleased that it was done so efficiently and that the military buried him at sea within 24 hours (in accordance with Islamic practice) so as to prevent a shrine being set up for him. But September 11th never affected me personally -- the overreaction to it was far worse.

The one thing I'm truly glad of is that it shows Emmanuel Goldstein can be killed.
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[Dogen]

I was getting ready for work.

I'm not sure what effect this will have on the global war on terror... but I'm kind of weirded out by the jubilation that erupted in NYC and DC. I don't think we should take pleasure in the death of anyone. I'm relieved that he won't be able to directly support and mastermind terror plots. I'm hopeful that, in time, this may come to be important in preventing further loss of life. I hope that families who lost loved ones will feel closure, that families of soldiers who died in Afghanistan will feel their deaths were not in vain.

I don't feel any pleasure in knowing bin Laden is dead, however. Pleasure is something you feel during good times, as a result of good things. Death itself is neither good nor bad, but the killing of a person is not a good thing. It's a sad thing. Sad that circumstances and bin Laden's choices led to the end of a life. The end of many lives. In my mind, though, his death is simply another casualty to add to the list of those who have died for ideological extremism. In that sense, it was an unnecessary death that he wrought with his own hand, because he chose violence and hatred over peace and compassion. It's all just very sad to me.
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[Sam the Eagle]

[DeD CHiKn]

I was in bed when I was told.

My reaction was a muffled sarcastic "grats" and then I rolled over.
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[Mizike]

[Samsally]

[trustedfaith]

I've been chalking it up to people just rejoicing at the fact that the person responsible for 9/11 and much much more cannot hurt anyone anymore as opposed to dancing that he's dead. It's closure more than anything else.

[Sam the Eagle]

[Monkey Mcdermott]

[Halen]

Man, they should have just google mapped him, would have saved a lot of time.