Pretty depressing…:sad::sad:
Hopefully the presence of loonies on both sides of the current stupidity will cause most people to stop and think about what is going on.
Trouble is it is so easy for people to stop thinking about those who die (whatever their race, religion,etc) as people, and be railroaded into thinking in terms of “terrorist”, or “zionist”, or “muslim”, “christian”, “jew”.
It’s been the shout of fear, and of hate throughout history that we must categorise those who are different, and think of them as things and not people – give them no humanity, and it cannot be taken away. Then our conscience can be clear when lives are taken, because those lives are not “real”
That is where the true war is being fought, and the only way to win it is to make sure nobody forgets that when people like this talk about jihad, or defending the homeland from x,y,z etc, that it is ordinary people, who have lives, have loves, have homes, and families, that are going to be killed. Not terrorists, or americans, or muslims, or israelis, but people.
This is where our media is failing us now, and has been since 9/11 (feeling deeply ashamed is playing into the same view IMO – the feeling that the western world as a whole is somehow responsible continues the move from people to object, making us all to blame, because we live in the west.)
I don’t feel ashamed, because I have never given anybody the right to kill in my name.
The fact that others claim to be killing on my behalf, and for my safety is a fabrication on their part, and I will keep telling them so until hopefully they hear (as should anybody who opposes the war on terror, and it’s continued escalation by men of no conscience, and less bravery on both sides). If I truly felt my safety, and that of my family were threatened, it would be very clear, as I would be defending them myself, by joining the armed forces (even though I despise the idea of killing and war, the last world war proved that there are circumstances which cannot be resolved through words and diplomacy alone. If there were such a threat again, I would be one of the first to volunteer, as I am sure would many others…)
This is however not that conflict, and despite the fevered attempts to convince us that we should be scared by people who have something to gain from that fear, I am hopeful that they won’t succeed.
My feelings on the video… If the guy is so eager to go fight, give him a gun and tell him to go find Dick Cheney. Oh, and tell him to wear bright orange, so he looks like a deer….:laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at::crazy_fre:crazy_fre:crazy_fre
This is all IMO though…. People like that guy really make me growl….:head_bang:head_bang:head_bang
