My husband and I have been enjoying watching an old series from TV called “Centennial”. Part of the story was an attack on an unarmed Indian village composed of old men, women and children. At least in the movie, when found out, the action was condemned as “inappropriate”.
I now draw our attention to this news story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/07/ap/middleeast/main6557304.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1
It is a story about a video:
“The classified video was taken from the cockpit during a 2007 fire fight and posted last April on the website Wikileaks.org. It was an unflattering portrait of the war that raised questions about the military’s rules of engagement and whether more should be done to prevent civilian casualties.
The video shows a group of men walking down the street before being repeatedly shot by the helicopters. The American gunners can be heard laughing and referring to the men as “dead bastards.”
Among those believed to have been killed in that attack was Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his driver Saeed Chmagh, 40. Two children were wounded.”
The focus of this story is about a young man who released the “unflattering” video being accused of treason for leaking “classified information”.
Really…
how utterly disgusting and repulsive, much less decent, could our national character get?
and why have we turned into such a bunch of cowards that none of us speak up and say anything?
Bravo for Helen Thomas for her Courage!!!!
S.E.
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June 9th, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Sue Ann,
Thanks for shining the light of awareness on this. When we dehumanize our enemy or anyone for that matter we act in ways that are reprehensible. We forget that what we do to another we do to our self. We are so very ignorant at times, so immature as beings. Tears fall …
June 9th, 2010 - 3:00 pm
I’m going to use a phrase from an email I received this morning. It is appropriate.
It’s time for all of us homo-sapiens to stand up in mass and overthrow all the homo-rapiens.
June 9th, 2010 - 9:03 pm
Mark,
You most likely know better then I, that the de-humanizing begins in boot camp. Individual self respect is not part of it. The individual is specifically beaten down and replaced with a group identity.
I don’t happen to consider this as loving to those of us whose desire is to serve us. Morons who do not question seem to be what our military wants, regardless of the damage being done mentally and emotionally.
We need to stand behind this young man and applaud his courage. He needs our help and support.
We need to take our blinders off. We the People need to know everything our government is doing in our name. Complete transparency.
If our goals are Worthy,then they can be accomplished through means of Honesty and Truth. If secrecy is required in order to accomplish our goals, then those goals are not worthy and subversion is the motive.
A man who admits to being a thief is an Honest man of Integrity. However, a man who says he values Truth and Honesty, then does not live in Integrity with those values, is more a thief then any honest thief. For instance….”Daddy Bush”.
Here was a man who used to head the CIA. Obviously, he had no value for Honesty and Truth, yet claimed to be an Honest and Truthful man. So he had no Integrity. Now if he had claimed not to have any value for Truth and Honesty, then he could have lived in Integrity while being the head of the CIA.
“If I say I lie and I tell the truth, then I lie.”