Sometimes there are news stories that are deliciously ironic. For example, every time I read a news story of a robbery where the robber gets trapped inside the store and has to be freed by the police just before they take him into custody, my sense of irony is watered and refreshed.

But sometimes a story skips the irony stage and moves directly to idiocy. Such is the case of the story of recent comments made by Omar Bin Laden about the death of his father. Here’s a bit:

LONDON (Reuters) – A statement purporting to come from a son of Osama bin Laden denounced the al Qaeda leader’s killing as “criminal” and said his burial at sea had humiliated the family, an online monitoring service said.

The statement, attributed to Omar bin Laden, bin Laden’s fourth eldest son, said the al Qaeda chief’s children reserved the right to take legal action in the United States and internationally to “determine the true fate of our vanished father,” the SITE Intelligence Group said.

There was no independent confirmation of the authenticity of the letter, published on the website of Islamist ideologue Abu Walid al-Masri, although several specialists on militant propaganda said the text appeared genuine. [...]

[...] The letter said, in part: “We hold the American President (Barack) Obama legally responsible to clarify the fate of our father, Osama bin Laden, for it is unacceptable, humanely and religiously, to dispose of a person with such importance and status among his people, by throwing his body into the sea in that way, which demeans and humiliates his family and his supporters and which challenges religious provisions and feelings of hundreds of millions of Muslims.”

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Do I really have to point out the fact that I find it “unacceptable, humanely and religiously” to dispose of over 3,000 innocent American citizens by flying large planes into skyscrapers? Do I really have to point out the fact that Omar is just lucky that he wasn’t in the compound that night or they would have been dumping his body into the sea at the same time? Do I really have to point out the fact that every time a terrorist gets what’s coming to him, he or his family go running to the press to cry about how unfair the world is? Do I have really have to point out that any lawyer who decides to take on old Omar as a client to sue the United States over this will have earned any bad karma that comes his way?

Do I really have to point out that I really don’t give a crap about his misery and his loss?

Note to Omar: Your daddy did something that came with consequences and finally your daddy had to pay those consequences. Call it what you will, but sadly, Omar, your daddy is the one to blame here. Your daddy could have been a teacher, preacher, plumber, baker, or a candle-stick maker; but instead, he chose to be a terrorist and he chose to kill over 3,000 of our people to make a political statement.

The truth is this: The person you should be angry with is your daddy. He made the decisions that led to his own destruction. Around here, we call it personal responsibility. If your daddy had made different choices and lived like a man of character then perhaps he would have been given the opportunity to die like a man of character.

You should exceed your daddy’s expectations and choose to live like a man instead of like a terrorist. As your daddy found out, if you choose wrong, then the next knock at your door may be Seal Team 6.