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I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep it in your minds eye. This was a perfectly healthy twenty two-year-old young man who in the service of his country got half of his head blown off. I think that's important, I think that's newsworthy. Let me tell you how newsworthy I think it is. I think that it's more important than chocolate cake recipes and far more important than comic book reviews. It is more important than who fell and whose swell at the winter Olympic games.
It is far more important than any self-serving load of crap banged out by Pseudo doctor Amy. It is more important than American Idol or Lost or any other mindless goat droppings the public chooses to chew on. This is some American mother's son, her little boy, he may be gay or straight or transgender but his life is fucked forever.
How did this come to happen to this poor mother's son? It came to happen because the people in the media who are supposed to foster a public debate on such public issues as war instead used their franchise to promote articles about chocolate cake and comic book reviews. They see their free press as free to choose not to look when bad thinks happen. They feel no need to explain to his parents or to anyone that the war that blew off half of this poor boys head was based on out and out lies.
It was a war perpetrated by people who hoped to gain from it be it in oil or pipelines or service contracts and like the media they don't care that this mother's son is mangled and mutilated. Do you care? I've been married twice for a combined twenty-five years and in that time I doubt my wives ever baked a chocolate cake. I don't read comic books or watch goat crap TV but you see I've got a son about this boy's age. My heart aches and my mind fills with rage because the people that have the power and authority to show this picture would rather talk about American Idol and from where I sit that makes them an accomplice to a war crime.
Because not content to ignore the current victims they support more crimes and call for more wars. Several years ago in Iraq parents waited for their children at a bus stop. An errant coalition missile struck the bus stop and blew the elementary school age children to pieces. Needless to say this wasn't widely reported but the parents in a frenzy began fighting over the body parts of their children. Little arms and legs, little headless torsos identifiable only by the shirt or dress they were wearing. Imagine the horror, imagine the type of people who could do such a thing. How do they live with themselves? How do they sleep at night?
They do it by watching Lost and American Idol and by eating chocolate cake. They read comic books and watch sports. It makes life easy because the media will not intrude on their fantasy world but instead will promote the fantasy. Oh, but who won the gold metal in curling and who was eliminated on American Idol.
Iraq war Coalition Deaths 4,696
Injured 30,000
Iraqi civilian deaths and injured, 1,366,650
Afghanistan coalition Deaths 1,659
American taxpayers bill as of today $964billion,044,305,874.
[source] (http://open.salon.com/blog/david_cox/2010/02/25/the_picture).
Wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the news. Either way it still has some stopping power.
There are sadly several such incidents, and several more pictures that are harder to find than they should be. :-\
I'm going to go on a slightly off-tangent debate, but I think America is a giant fucking stuffed bear when it comes to news and advertising. This is mostly why I would rather work outside of the country in graphic design or just media in general as it's more open and real and what people need to hear/read and not dumb shit that people could, in reality, care less about but for some reason accept as news. I go on this tangent because I believe this is why most of these kinds of stories are the ones that aren't told in favor for fluffy stupid shit that make everyone feel like the world is fucking fine and awesome when it isn't. This pisses me off to no end.
This stuff has been going on since the creation of media.
Somewhat off-topic:
The war in Iraq is a load of shit. The government is fighting for freedom and vengeance? Hah, please. They don't give a shit about you. They ONLY care about their profit, the way the public sees them, and how they look on T.V They do not give a fuck about you.
Did you know the American debt is over 3 TRILLION dollars? Spread out among your 300 million population, that comes to about $40,000 debt PER PERSON.
I agree with whoever wrote that article. Sick of this candy-coated "the world is in great shape" media bullshit. All of these people sit in their nice homes with their eyes wide shut. "They call it the American dream for a reason. You have to be asleep to believe it."
also, check this out: http://costofwar.com
/endrant
Quote from: Firerain on February 26, 2010, 08:15:56 PM
The war in Iraq is a load of shit. The government is fighting for freedom and vengeance? Hah, please. They don't give a shit about you. They ONLY care about their profit, the way the public sees them, and how they look on T.V They do not give a fuck about you.
How are they trying making profit from war? We have much less money than we did since we started this war.
The United States government is losing money, not gaining it.
Quote from: Irock on February 26, 2010, 08:21:15 PM
Quote from: Firerain on February 26, 2010, 08:15:56 PM
The war in Iraq is a load of shit. The government is fighting for freedom and vengeance? Hah, please. They don't give a shit about you. They ONLY care about their profit, the way the public sees them, and how they look on T.V They do not give a fuck about you.
How are they trying making profit from war? We have much less money than we did since we started this war.
The United States government is losing money, not gaining it.
oil
truly fucked up
That's why Brazil is so nice. No wars, no people's heads being blown up, no children being slaughtered by erratic bombs. Also, that's why I hate america [the country, not the people. Well, not all the people] Asphixiating the world's development with no-nos. If america breaks, soon will the rest of the world. It's linked. America is that kind of unremovable parasite. If you remove, the host dies. That's why The rest of the world must unnattach from america. Try building marked, culture, media, food, everything, on their own. So when america breaks down [wich is fate, unchangable fate, solely] the rest of the world won't. And the rest of the world will be free of the parasite known as america. Of course, I mean no harm to the population of america - they can just go somewhere else. And try not to dominate in this somewhere else. America is the new Rome. Slaying the celts. That's what it [saddenly] is. And it's sad, because it's not the people. it's the general conscience and the country itself. Sad. I went sort of off-topic but.. Oh well.