Perhaps the year's greatest villain, and the most cheered death.
Alex Finnis: Cheering the death of anyone is completely inappropriate "This is a day I'll never forget, and if you look at the news headlines you'll know what I'm talking about".
At risk of speaking for a fair portion of the country, I feel it's fair to argue that the majority of students would feel cheering the death of a former Prime Minister, indeed one adored by many, including students, is inappropriate.
At the time, student audiences were in no doubt as to the intentions of the scene, and would chant "My Lai! My Lai!" as well as cheering the death of Custer, whom they identified as Lieutenant Calley, the soldier found guilty of murder at a court martial for his part in the massacre which claimed the lives of 500 South Vietnamese civilians.
From making support for generally accepted global warming science melt faster than an Arctic glacier, to folks cheering the death penalty and then booing a gay solider serving in Iraq at GOP presidential debates, the anti-government, anti-science, anti-knowledge 26 Percenters of the Tea Party Movement have been the angry tail wagging the confused dog of American politics for the last 30 months.
And most importantly, both sides need to not cheer the death and destruction of the other.
The "liberals would cheer her death," she thinks.
Both of these films, in their different ways, mock and cheer the death of white racial innocence.
In Cairo, hard-core soccer fans initially cheered the death sentences to their rivals in Port Said, but then shifted to anger at the police acquittals.
They are those who cheer the death of our countrymen and serve the cause of tyranny, whether political, religious or intellectual.
