Scorned in death, and hacked up and shipped home like packages of meat, these three men deserve much more than has so far been delivered in the way of justice.
Patron saint of dogs' fangs and scorn, of false death.
Flood's protest earned him an enormous amount of public scorn — including daily death threats — and "The Way It Is" was his chance to respond.
"A star is born!" These were among the images that brought international attention, scorn, praise and death threats to Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine that takes profane aim at the shibboleths of politics, culture and religion, particularly conservative ones.
It was the scorn of life for death.
Mick Harris, in his post-Napalm Death project, Scorn, briefly experimented with the style.
"History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive.
"Mermaids are vicious harpies who lure sailors to their death," she said, scorn cresting in her voice.
Wealthy, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of pain and death, he preached scorn of both; and there were other contrasts between practice and principle.
In a press release shortly after the deaths in June 2006 were announced, former detainees, including the nine released British nationals, "poured scorn" on allegations that the deaths were suicides, and claimed that they were "almost certainly accidental killings caused by excessive force" on the part of the guards.
