Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
And I liked this extreme character of de Sade.
If anyone should be executed, it should be Charles Manson. Do I go around during the daytime, 'Geez, I'm upset that he's alive'? No, I don't even think about him. I don't think about this case.
It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
He was definitely known as the foremost man killer in the West; however there's controversy about virtually every killing that he was known to have been involved in.
Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.
I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures.
Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.