# I hope they hang you by your heels, Ratko Mladic... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 26, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307 "2011-05-26T15:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/1 "2011-05-26T15:57:56Z")
…and gut you like a fucking pig. 8000 men and boys slaughtered under his direct command. The fucker’s been [caught](http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/05/26/serbia.mladic/index.html?hpt=T2), goddamn his soul. “One soldier approached a woman in the middle of a crowd,” he said. “Her child was crying. The soldier asked why the child was crying and she explained that he was hungry. The soldier made a comment like, ‘He won’t be hungry anymore.’ He slit the child’s throat in front of everybody.” ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/2 "2011-05-26T15:58:25Z")
I also am opposed to mass murder. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/3 "2011-05-26T15:59:51Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I also am opposed to mass murder. I am opposed to those who would attempt to influence the content of the board by “subtle” use of dumbassed sarcasm. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/4 "2011-05-26T18:14:24Z")
> [@President of Serbia Boris Tadić](#): > > All war criminals must face justice. Hear, hear. May it be swift and certain. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/5 "2011-05-26T18:55:35Z")
You know, it just hasn’t been a good couple of months for internationally wanted fucksticks. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/6 "2011-05-26T18:58:18Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Hear, hear. May it be swift and certain. It won’t be. This is the UN we’re talking about. The trial will last a decade, if it even manages to begin before the guy dies of old age. And of course they can’t bring themselves to execute anybody, for we must respect the rights of a genocidal maniac. ---
**Author:** ![Profound\_Gibberish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Profound\_Gibberish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profound_Gibberish)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/7 "2011-05-26T18:59:10Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > Hear, hear. May it be swift and certain. This is The Hague. It will be certain, but it will NOT be swift. Good riddance you scum. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/8 "2011-05-27T05:19:54Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > And of course they can’t bring themselves to execute anybody, for we must respect the rights of a genocidal maniac. Yes, we must. Everyone’s rights must be respected, or we are those we despise. Do you seriously argue otherwise? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/9 "2011-05-27T05:45:10Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Yes, we must. Everyone’s rights must be respected, or we are those we despise. Do you seriously argue otherwise? I was speaking with hyperbole. I think he deserves a fair trial, unencumbered by the UN’s bureaucratic incompetence. I also think he deserves to die. ---
**Author:** ![Godinama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@Godinama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godinama)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/10 "2011-05-27T05:58:33Z")
I was about to make the same thread. I wish him and Karadzic a long life behind bars, preferably in Bosnia. May they live to be 100! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/11 "2011-05-27T09:39:16Z")
> [@Tom\_Scud](#): > > I also am opposed to mass murder. Bigot. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/12 "2011-05-27T09:49:53Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > You know, it just hasn’t been a good couple of months for internationally wanted fucksticks. It’s a bugger when political imperative is the driving force behind capturing them and putting them on trial though…I’d rather this had happened before it became necessary in order to protect Serbia’s chances of entering the EU. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/13 "2011-05-27T17:56:38Z")
> [@Martiju](#): > > It’s a bugger when political imperative is the driving force behind capturing them and putting them on trial though…I’d rather this had happened before it became necessary in order to protect Serbia’s chances of entering the EU. I heard that stated on NPR this morning. I was unaware of the issue. So what gives? He was being protected for the last 16 years, and Serbia essentially got an ultimatum that read, “Make with the Butcher of Srebrenica, or no EU for you”? ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/14 "2011-05-27T18:10:30Z")
> [@Martiju](#): > > It’s a bugger when political imperative is the driving force behind capturing them and putting them on trial though…I’d rather this had happened before it became necessary in order to protect Serbia’s chances of entering the EU. Best: Serbia hands him over because they hate genocide Good: Serbia hands him over because they want EU membership Bad: Serbia keeps him safe. ---
**Author:** ![Godinama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e95f7d/32.png) [@Godinama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godinama)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/15 "2011-05-27T18:31:37Z")
The part that gets me is that they didn’t give him up when it mattered most. Instead he was protected. Now all the justice-craving world gets is a haggard old man, paralyzed in one arm because of multiple strokes. A man that cannot be moved to hear the preliminary extradition trial in Belgrade, much less the actual trial in the Netherlands. It’s a hollow victory knowing that his life will most likely end by natural means well before the trial ends. Just like with Milosevic. ---
**Author:** ![Wallenstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b5a626/32.png) [@Wallenstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallenstein)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/16 "2011-05-27T20:26:55Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > You know, it just hasn’t been a good couple of months for internationally wanted fucksticks. The two cases are linked… one of the reasons Serbia was able to put off handing Mladic over was the USA’s failure to find Osama Bin Laden. Serbia were able to say “how dare the West criticise us for not finding our bad guys, when you can’t even find the world’s Public Enemy #1”. Now that Bin Laden’s done for Serbia were under more pressure… let’s not pretend that the authorities didn’t know exactly where Mladic has been all this time. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/17 "2011-05-28T14:51:57Z")
Ratko Mladic was caught and now faces justice in The Hague. So the man is looking at say a 5 year long drawn out media circus were the Western World is criticized for passing judgement on it’s moral high tower. Countless witnesses will have to relive the worst days of their lives in front of a man who’ll argue he was just doing his job. Justice will be metered out with a life sentence, but he’s 69 years old for god sakes, so can’t put him in a real prison were he might die! He’ll get out a year or two later to be placed in a hostpital where he’ll spend the rest of his comfortable retirement enjoying Ricki Lake reruns between sponge baths. We should have just put one in his fucking eye and been done with it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2011, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/18 "2011-05-28T15:11:47Z")
> [@Godinama](#): > > I was about to make the same thread. I wish him and Karadzic a long life behind bars, preferably in Bosnia. May they live to be 100! Hijack but [this prick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Priebke) is still alive. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/19 "2011-05-29T02:11:15Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I hope they hang you by your heels, Ratko Mladic… I think you misspelled “balls.” ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2011, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307/20 "2011-05-29T02:42:20Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I also think he deserves to die. I can assure you that he will die. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hope-they-hang-you-by-your-heels-ratko-mladic/583307.md?page=2)