Today's news that makes you want to lay the mantle of civilization down and go inflict some horrific levels of pain: Sources: Slain prosecutor was tortured.

Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan Luna, age 38, was murdered probably early Thursday morning, and his body was found somewhere in Pennsylvania. His car was found idling in a creek, with Mr. Luna's remains stashed beneath it. Two snippets:

Sources said the killing was brutal. Torture wounds were found on his torso, and he had been stabbed as many as 36 times.

An autopsy conducted by a forensic pathologist found that Luna "died of fresh water drowning and multiple stab wounds of the neck and chest," Walp said.

Luna was alive but incapacitated when he was thrown in the water, Walp said.

Mr. Luna leaves behind a wife and two children.

I don't know all the facts of this case, nor do I have any personal connection to it. Nevertheless, I do not like it when law enforcement personnel are killed. If I had Richard Bay's speech to Helen Gamble on an old episode of The Practice, I'd probably be reading it now---the bottom line is that men and women who serve the law enforcement system are, in their own way, part of the thin veneer of civilization that divides us from the Iraq of Saddam Hussein. Any attack upon them probably in some way constitutes a move towards what Hussein's Iraq stands for.

I am, of course, angry and ranting about this, probably absent a lot of logical rationality, but at this point I don't care. It would be nice to be able to catch the responsible parties and inflict upon them the John "Without Remorse" Kelly hyperbaric treatment, following that up with a quick trip to the local mulching machine in the back yard, a la the last few minutes of Fargo. This is where we can learn from the Baathists: Insert the responsible party into the machine feet-first.

The Country Pundit is not pleased.

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