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From: acoustic@panix.com
In article <7899a232-407d-4f1f-bd1d-261d55a4f115@googlegroups.com>,
ltlee1@hotmail.com wrote:
>On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 1:22:31 AM UTC-4, jdeluise wrote:
>> acoustic@panix.com (lo yeeOn) writes:
>>
>> > It's supposed to be a basic American value for our children to grow up
>> > in this country loving animals - at least the good ones, whatever that
>> > means.
>> >
>> > That's not just an American value. It is in fact much more universal
>> > human nature to be kind to animals, particularly mammals who are
>> > emotionally close to us.
>>
>> lol, is this a joke...?
>
>Do you really find something laughable or funny?
>
>For example, is the following laughable or funny?
>
>"To many, the American society is just as unjust, hypocritical, and
>ultimately highly morally corrupt. It's soffocating for many just
>like the holding cell for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and just like the
>Guantanamo Bay prison and Abu Ghraib for many who resented us for
>bombing and killing them, and just like the life's journey for the
>millions who have escaped death from our bombs only to be condemned to
>live, with little hope and mostly despair in Afghanistan, in Yemen, in
>Libya, in Syria, in Iraq, and other places."
Well, Jessica Henry's article entitled "Tsarnaev's Sentence: A Deeply
American Choice" points out that our American sense of justice is
clearly out of sync with the group of civilized countries we like to
think of ours as belonging to.
That's, however, just the start.
That a young child with a tender heart and promising human qualities
while still living in the post-Soviet Caucasus could have gone through
such a dramatic transformation into a hated criminal after growing up
in America is a compelling indictment of our government: during all
that time Tsarnaev was growing up in Boston, his new country was
killing countless Muslims.
His new country was committing state-sponsored terrorism over and over
again against millions and millions of people in other parts of the
world. His new country offered him and his brother not hope but
despair. So how can we not understand that he and his brother were
deeply affected by what they saw? How can we not understand that they
would sooner or later become radicalized by our government's actions?
The Boston Marathon tragedy should have been a soul-searching moment
for all of us. Instead, our over-zealous prosecutor just wants the
young man dead as soon as possible in order to cover up the real
culprit of the tragedy, which is the government itself.
And that may be the whole point of the death penalty. Most people do
not realize that the Islamic State we abhor so much today is actually
largely the phoenix that arose from the rubble of our destruction of
Iraq.
Regarding the Iraq war, various American officials, such as Paul
O'Neill and Richard Clarke, who were familiar with the inner working
of the Bush White House in 2001 have testified that they were busy
preparing for a war against Iraq. Then the country was invaded on
transparently false pretenses. The WMD charge was just a convenient
line they thought would sell and so they cooked up the intelligence to
justify their barbaric action on the ground.
Of course, if the Tsarnaev brothers had not built their IEDs and
detonated them at the Marathon, those who lost their limbs would still
have their limbs and those who were killed would be alive. But the
chain of causality ultimately goes back to our rulers, who have little
regard for lives, other their own.
Every human life is sacrosanct. If you kill many Muslims, it would be
a miracle that there isn't some form of blowback at home.
lt, thanks.
lo yeeOn
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