Why are people ignoring this?

Just a little rant, but ive been listening to the news lately alot, and it seems like people are ignoring the fact that Margaret Hassan was executed. I know the marines got caught on tape shooting a man "pretending to be dead;" but there is a lady who worked 30 years for the iraqi people, married an iraqi man, gave clean water, and education to the Iraqi people, and a devout converted muslim, shot dead.

It just seems that the media needs to revise their priorities in their issues. Its sad what has happend, her widower is pleeing to the insurgents to reveal where her body is so he can give her a proper burial.

Al jazeera TV has been playing the marine clip over and over. But has rarely even mentioned the execution of Margaret Hassan. I just feel like the media is trying to throw more gas on the fire for the iraqi people to resist more. Is this not wrong? Its Our own networks are doing it too.

 

this kinda stood out to me.. and i thought.. war = ratings. why wouldnt the media try to stir up the war more.. and i hadnt heard of this margaret hassan.. was she shot by insurgents or what?.. and yeah.. quite frankly i think people are going overboard about the marine shooting the guy.. sure its bad and all but its war ffs..

 

The whole situation is now fubar and a lot of people have got a lot of answering to do.

There has been a lot of outrage over her killing here in the UK ... and rightly so. There has also been an equal amount of outrage over US war crimes ... and rightly so.

They are still to confirm that it is her though: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4021697.stm

Does anyone else think it is strange that Margaret Hassan has been killed and yet the 2 female relatives of Prime Minister Allawi were released within a few days of being kidnapped?



Anyway, bad things are happening on both sides, however one side has been wrongly violated from the start and that side includes the people who don't want their country to be bombed to fuck by the imperialistic profit driven, so called 'liberators'. (who before this used them as a pawn for several decades)

 

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It is being reported widely in the UK, but the media here was critised for going ‘overboard’ on the execution of Kenneth Bigley. It was suggested that too much publicity played into the extremist’s hands by getting them more airplay than their real importance deserved.

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Heres a link with alot of links about what im talking about.
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2004_11_14.html#003759

 

Well, I must agree that the media is one screwed up business! I wish more news stations would report real and accurate news instead of just what earns higher ratings. It sure is a shame....

Jim Morrison once said, "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind."
Think about it.

 

I think the western press has less interest because its just the latest in a long line of atrocities by insurgents. Everybody already knows they do these things on a regular basis, by now we expect them to, so there's not so much news value in it. On the other hand we don't expect marines to execute unarmed, wounded insurgents, and we don't see evidence of that every day. News value.


The reasons Al Jazeera wouldn't show it, however are obvious.

 

Well Drew, perhaps you're beginning to see that the media complex does not have the soldiers, nor the American public's best interests at hand.


Perhaps you're starting to feel a bit 'betrayed', eh? I understand how you feel, and perhaps you're starting to become disillusioned as well?

The media complex only wants to fuel more hate, so there will be more 'entertainment' so that their ratings will stay high.

Think about it. Your brothers and soldiers being slaughtered, for money.

It's sad, I know.

 

Not everybodies ignoring it. Why would they kill someone who obviously stood for the people of Iraq and was clearly opposed to the American occupation long before our most recent invasion? What organization has claimed this? Where's all the Islamic imagery etc... that's accompanied other hostage videos. Who actually did this besides the generic term 'insurgent'? Why were leaders of well known anti-anglo factions even pushing for her release? The act itself disghusts me and to boot the lack of a really clear picture. It's a bit fuzzy around the edges.

 

Its called S.O.P.

I would not be surprised to find it was some radical Pro-coalition faction that killed her. Not saying it was, just it wouldn't shock me.

 

Yeah, BlackGuard, I agree. It wouldn't suprise me either, that they would kill such an innocent soul to incite more idiots to go fight in their wars.

 

Thats how effective psyops work and what keeps the CIA and the Pentagon propaganda factories raking in the huge budgetary allocations during each repeated period of contrived expeditionary war of aggression by our MIC.

Those whose passions and sensibilities are inflamed only scream for more war despite their failure to comprehend that they are chanting for yet countless more (whose own deaths will be merely written off as "collateral damage") to suffer even more egregious destruction by our not-so-precise "precision" missiles, cluster bombs, depleted uranium shelling, or trigger happy yahoo mercenaries just itching to go kill more of "the enemy" in yet another foreign land of whose people or cultures they have zero comprehension (nor frankly care to have so long as they receive orders to do "whatever it takes").

How significantly the stipulations and principles which governed the Nuremberg trials apply to our leaders and those who carry out their orders today.

From Nuremberg to Abu Ghraib

War, Social Justice, Media and Democracy

 

Well, then it should worry us that people are awakening from this ignorance at such a fast rate. God knows what they (those plural guys) might be capable of, if they start losing control of the minds of the masses.

 

the capabilities are infinite, especially if the cobalt bomb really exists.

They always do the same thing.
Create a 'Problem'
the masses demand something be done, 'the reaction'
offer a 'solution'

Invariably this entails them putting more limitations on our freedom, and allowing them to invade our privacy more.

problem reaction solution
works every time

 

I dont see much evidence that the majority of the country are waking up from this long running status quo. Its been the nature of things all my life and well before and is still firmly entrenched through daily corporate media reinforcement today.

Those who should be fearing most in the short term are those who are most readily identifiable as members of domestic dissident groups, however peaceful they may be. These would be the first to be rounded up once the police state machinery is brought to bear upon our own citizens.

Most wouldn't and won't believe it could happen "here" any more than those who were vicitms of the nazi roundups believed that they were destined for slaughter in their day. Such is the effectiveness of the culture of individualism and distrust of our neighbours which has been instilled in our populace for generations. All the official line has to say is that those rounded up were criminals or terrorists and most will buy it without question (until its their turn, but then its too late).

 

Perhaps this is how things have always been? And perhaps art is the only way to really make a statement anymore? But, it is truly fascist when artists are persecuted for showing their thoughts. Hopefully, it'll never come to that.

 

I believe they've already started the process towards identifying domestic dissidents (the peaceful ones even) in reference to that USA Today article that was posted in another thread. It's already been going on a long time, deadheads listed as a 'gang', family considered 'terrorist organization', street kids getting beat up routinely by cops or even just plain murdered. There's shit going on all the time that happens right under the nose of our oh so aware public. Up until now they've kept that kind of stuff out of the media machine because raising it only helped the ones they were trying take down. But now we have worldwide terror. That's right they could be the one who lives right next to you . Be on the lookout. I got a gut feeling though that they're also just setting up for when more of the soldiers start returning and walking around in our own neighborhoods with a not so super polished tale to tell or even acting like the souless pigs that some of them have become.

ha. good one.