Just ran across this on the AP Newswire and (other than staring at my screen with a stunned “Springtime for Hitler” expression on my face) was struck speechless:
LOS ANGELES (AP)—A composer has created a 12-minute musical “prequiem,” a pre-death trumpet fanfare, he hopes will escort Timothy McVeigh’s soul to heaven when the Oklahoma City bomber is executed May 16. David Woodard said he has been in contact with McVeigh and is trying to coordinate a performance of the piece, called “Onward Valiant Soldier,” to be broadcast on an Indiana radio station just before Wednesday’s scheduled execution. Woodard, 33, said he does not support McVeigh’s anti-government cause, but is “awed by who [he] is and his circumstances.” Woodard originally composed the piece for Jack Kevorkian, the Michigan doctor who has assisted in numerous suicides. It was first titled “Farewell to a Saint.”
May I suggest an all-kazoo version of “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal, You?”
McVeigh is a “Valiant Soldier” and Kevorkian is a “Saint”? WTF???
Maybe this guy’s next project should be a symphony for Charles Manson entitled “Well Done, Thou Good And Faithful Servant.” No doubt he’d be “awed” by Chuck’s “circumstances” as well.
What the fuck is there to be awed about? Except maybe that the sorry sonofabitch wasn’t offed in prison!
Jesusfuckinggoddamnedchrist!
I’m of the opinion that McVeigh’s name should be stricken from all public records and he should forever be referred to as That Cold-hearted Fuck that Murdered Children and this dickwad has composed a prequiem for him!! Heaven. HA!
And please, don’t somebody come in here and tell about some of the survivors are against his execution. *You weren’t there!*The majority of them and the victim’s families, not to mention people like me and the ones that had to pull out dead bodies from the rubble, we want to see that sorry waste of flesh fry. Bad enough he gets a peaceful, painfree death, but now this?
It’s just too much.
Fuck. I have to go make a presentation in twenty minutes in this foul mood.
No, no, Arden. He’s that Cold-hearted Fuck who Caused Some “Collateral Damage.” :rolleyes:
Perhaps David Woodward could get together with Gore Vidal at the execution. “This guy’s got a case – you don’t send the F.B.I. in to kill women and children,” Mr. Vidal said, according to an article published on Saturday in The Daily Oklahoman. “The boy has a sense of justice.”
“Sense of justice.” He’s a mass-murdering coward of the highest order. “Collateral damage” my ass.
Don’t even get me started on that “Collateral Damage” remark of his. That had me pissed off for week after I heard it.
As for Mr. Vidal, he can have a spot in that little room right next to Heartless-Fuck.
“Sense of Justice”, my ass.
[related rant]Why, why, do they let people like McVeigh and Manson talk to the press when they’re in prison? Immediate family, okay. Priest, no problem. Lawyer, maybe. But to keep having to hear or read the crap these bastards continue to spew is just wrong. Can you imagine how the parents who lost their children felt when they heard him say that the deaths of their kids was nothing more than “collateral damage”?
“Oh, they have the right to be heard.” Bullshit. We heard them at their trails. We heard their statements to the press during their trials and appeals. We heard everything we needed to hear from McVeigh on April 19, 1995 at 9:01 AM in downtown OKC.
Arden Ranger, I’d like to join you in that rant. Psychopaths need to be ignored completely. ANY press may be what they’re looking for, and they should never get that satisfaction. We had a serial killer here in Canada who benefitted from his crimes (well, at least his wife and child did) by selling information about the locations of victims’ bodies, and now has received the copyrights for a series of tapes about himself. This is completely insane. The last thing these sick f***s need is to receive any kind of recognition for what they’ve done.
What pisses me off more is this statement on the main page of his site:
Ave Atque Vale"
(dedicated to Tim McVeigh in honor of the Pope’s request for clemency for the sacredness of human life)
Now I’m publicly opposed to the death penalty, and agree with J2P2’s request for clemecy…but this crackpot’s notion does not exactly further the cause…it seems to be attempting to create sympathy for shithead McVeigh, as opposed to honoring “the sacredness of human life”
I know there is virtually no limit on peoples’ stupidity, but I’m always surprised anew when something like this comes up. They want people to support their movement to have this piece of music played at the execution? What exactly do they think an execution is - a state fair? A celebration? “Bring the kiddies and make a day of it!”?
Oh, and about the media and McVeigh? As far as I’m concerned, the media can be pretty sick f***s too. “Anything to sell newspapers/magazines/air time” is a completely irresponsible attitude.
Well, under the black humor heading, I found that link so pretentious as to be funny:
Heavens! How dare they forbid a chamber orchestra at an execution when the composer expressly instructs that the condemned be present at the initial performance?? Is there no justice?? Sure, there are concerns of security and propriety but, damn it, the score instruction demands McVeigh be present! Where are our priorities?
I love how “you can’t play it here” translates to “it’s banned.” Let’s hope the guy is a better musician than he is a logician.
Put the piece of crap (T. McVeigh) in a room and play Slim Whitman all day and night, and day and night, and day and night (etc) long until his head explodes in a cloud of pink.
The media whores are just going for ratings. Ignore them.
National media will be swooping down on OKC again to get people’s reactions and will probably stake out the memorial to get the “man on the street” feeling. I hope if they do someone shoves their damned recording equipment someplace painful. Sometimes it’s good to be surrounded by Oklahoma Proud Truck Drivin’ Gun Tottin’ Rednecks.
It shouldn’t make a bit of difference anyway. Heartless Fuck has confessed over and over and has a fucking book the prosecuters can use as Exhibit A.
Good fucking lord, just what we need, another musical genre, death chamber music. I can see it now: Concerto for a child rapist in B flat minor. The cop-slayer sonata for violin and electric chair. Ode to a hit man for a woodwind quintet.
This is yet another example of why I’m against capital punishment. If we were to just lock him up for life without parole, there wouldn’t be all of this hoopla over the execution.