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YouTube Allows Video With Dead Americans To Remain
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Posted on 11/01/2009 6:43:33 AM PST by StarCMC

The video linked here shows almost 3 minutes of  hirabists training with weapons and other such poor quality offerings, but when you get to 3:00, the viewer is treated to close-ups of a dead coalition soldier.  The video is grotesque and shocking.  The soldier's dog tags are removed at  3:55, and video of his body continues until 4:06.  The video then shifts to showing an arsenal of weapons - those more astute than I can probably tell us what those weapons are - and then the video zooms in at  4:50 on a set of dog tags, presumably from the soldier previously shown.  

According to YouTube's Terms of Service, this video should be removed.  It was posted October 20, 2009 and has been flagged multiple times.  There is no doubt that this video is used to encourage our enemy who is actively killing our countrymen and our allies.  Hey YouTube - whose side are you on?

And before someone whines about me denying someone their free speech rights by flagging this piece of video propaganda, please remember that I have as much right to practice MY free speech as does anyone else.  And while we'er at it, the bill of rights guarantees free speech to citizens of the United States, not to our enemies at war.  

Related topic:  FreeRepublic's You Tube Smackdown on STRIKE!


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: americantroops; boycott; termsofservice; youtube

1 posted on 11/01/2009 6:43:34 AM PST by StarCMC
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To: TMSuchman; netmilsmom; Bahbah; Brad's Gramma; NewLand; pandoraou812; pattty; mamelukesabre; ...

Disgusting what YouTube allows to remain.


2 posted on 11/01/2009 6:45:12 AM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: StarCMC

Despicable that they’re still allowing that!

I’d contact Glenn Beck with this.

www.twitter.com/glennbeck


3 posted on 11/01/2009 6:56:20 AM PST by STARWISE (The Art & Science Institute of Chicago Politics NE Div: now open at the White House)
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To: StarCMC

Amen!

Flagged again anyway.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 6:56:44 AM PST by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: StarCMC

So, according to what I have read recently, Michael Savage and Pastor Manning have been dropped from Youtube, but this trash is allowed on?


5 posted on 11/01/2009 6:59:53 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: StarCMC

How does this compare with YouTube hosting videos of Apache and AC130 gunships hellfiring and strafing groups of the enemy? I’m not trying to argue with ya, I know what you’re getting at, but I’m wondering how you distinguish between the two and justify pulling one but not the other.


6 posted on 11/01/2009 7:05:26 AM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: StarCMC

When are most of us going to acknowledge that YouTube is nothing more than a libtard outlet?


7 posted on 11/01/2009 7:06:42 AM PST by cranked
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To: TheZMan

The apache clips are from thousands of feet and the targets are just bright IR images with no personal information obtainable. Distinguishable dog tags is another story altogether.


8 posted on 11/01/2009 7:09:44 AM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: StarCMC

The video has been removed.


9 posted on 11/01/2009 7:11:41 AM PST by mazda77 (Rubio for US Senate)
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To: vladimir998

I had not heard they were dropped!!!That’s not right.
It’s such a slippery slope...that’s why I don’t think
anything should be taken off...think of it like TV, just
change the channel or in this case just don’t click on link.
Once you start to discriminate then “nothing” is left on.
The youtube in this article sounds awful. I chose to not
even look at it. I think that helps to solve the problem.


10 posted on 11/01/2009 7:14:47 AM PST by savage woman
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To: savage woman
It is their own YouTube policy.

This is just a matter of making sure their own policy is applied fairly.

11 posted on 11/01/2009 7:17:33 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (give total war a chance)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It is their own YouTube policy.
This is just a matter of making sure their own policy is applied fairly.

But,aren’t you curious who helps to write “their own policy”


12 posted on 11/01/2009 7:29:08 AM PST by savage woman
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To: savage woman
YouTube has a policy, it is their policy.

It is their website and they ask their users to assist in their policy.

You don't have to assist if you don't want to.

But if you sign-up to post videos you agree to their policy.

If you don't agree with YouTube policy then don't visit YouTube but rather go somewhere else.

13 posted on 11/01/2009 7:38:21 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (give total war a chance)
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To: savage woman

This is one of things I was talking about:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2373514/posts


14 posted on 11/01/2009 8:10:26 AM PST by vladimir998
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To: StarCMC; 1 Olgoat; 103198; 10Ring; 11Bush; 1stbn27; 2ndClassCitizen; 2SterlingConservatives; ...

DC Chapter Master Ping List

The video in the link HAS BEEN REMOVED, but YouTube needs to be hounded for the many other videos that are offensive.

This ping just to keep you up to date.


15 posted on 11/01/2009 8:18:39 AM PST by trooprally (Never Give Up - Never Give In - Remember Our Troops)
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To: StarCMC

The video’s gone. Smacked down.Good work!!


16 posted on 11/01/2009 8:22:01 AM PST by gimme1ibertee ("In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"-G. Orwell)
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To: StarCMC; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

No surprise — YouTube is controlled by the leftist trash that runs Google.


17 posted on 11/01/2009 8:35:44 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: StarCMC

I made a complaint, then placed it on my Facebookpage, and POOF!

I come back to the computer and that video is gone!


18 posted on 11/01/2009 9:05:49 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: TheZMan

The Apache videos are GOOD guy killing BAD guys

The Jihadist videos are BAD guy killing Good guys.

I hope that clears it up for ya...


19 posted on 11/01/2009 9:07:29 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: TheZMan

Put the bong down, stoned and stupid is no way to go thru life.


20 posted on 11/01/2009 9:20:10 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: trooprally

bump to the top


21 posted on 11/01/2009 9:31:30 AM PST by GOPJ (When I was a child Hollween wasn't a celebration of evil - but a celebration of standing up to evil.)
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To: cranked

It is, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t hold their feet to the fire for aiding and abetting our enemy.


22 posted on 11/01/2009 11:46:46 AM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: TheZMan; RaceBannon

Well hey ZMan, when my brother’s boots are on the ground, or when ANY of our troops have boots on the ground, in enemy territory I don’t hold cotton to my fellow countrymen aiding and abetting the terrorists who are at that very moment doing their dead level best to kill him. That’s pretty much how I distinguish. YouTube/Google is a US company hosted on US servers. Let the terrorist cowards get their own internet servers in their own countries to host their propaganda. Hosting this stuff here in the US is tantamount to treason and should be prosecuted as such.


23 posted on 11/01/2009 11:50:52 AM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: RaceBannon

HA! A little heat to their feet works. There are so many videos on there that SHOULD be down it would make your head spin. There’s one that’s been there for years of MAJ Troy Gilbert who was shot down and YouTube has been notified — probably literally thousands of times — and yet it remains. Unbelievable.


24 posted on 11/01/2009 11:52:53 AM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: UB355

LOL!!


25 posted on 11/01/2009 11:53:45 AM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: StarCMC; RaceBannon; UB355

When my father’s boots were on the ground (Iraq), and he was dodging mortar attacks in the green zone, watching our men die from random shots into base, and traveling via armored bus or helicopter between FOBs, I didn’t appreciate it either.

So thanks for assuming the worst (particularly UB355). Your answer of who’s hosting the data is what I was seeking. Thanks.


26 posted on 11/01/2009 11:57:50 AM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: TheZMan

I did not assume the worst - I have just come up against so many people here on FR who think it’s wrong to flag YouTube videos. There are FReepers who believe I am denying someone their free speech rights...or that it’s a lib site and I should just not look there...or even that it’s wrong to try to organize people to flag effectively. There’s a brilliant FReeper who believes it’s wrong for me to be offended. And then there are those who lecture me about wasting bandwidth. I truly just don’t get it when people can’t see the distinctions because it is so plainly clear to me. Sorry if my passion about the issue is translated as assuming the wrong thing about you. Please thank your dad for his service, and thank YOU for your family’s sacrifice of your time with him while he was serving. It’s not easy being a family member of a service member. It truly gives you a different perspective.


27 posted on 11/01/2009 12:06:16 PM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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To: TheZMan

Maybe if you didn’t ask such a dumb question, you would have gotten a better answer. But you asked, and you worded it that way. If you NEED to have it explained, especially after YOU saying your own father is over there, then something is wrong

You actually tried to make some equivalency between videos of terrorists being killed and Americans being killed????


28 posted on 11/01/2009 12:29:11 PM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: RaceBannon

Equivalency? I asked a question.


29 posted on 11/01/2009 1:16:53 PM PST by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: RaceBannon; All

Here’s the Troy Gilbert video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61p5IoNeozk

Note the alternating Al-Furqaah and Al Qaeda symbols in the upper left.
@ :19 — terrorists
@ :41 — MAJ Gilbert’s military ID, complete with the back side showing his SS#
@3:42 — MAJ Gilbert’s body, closeups of which appear for a full minute

These things serve ONLY to embolden our enemy. YouTube is committing treason. This video has been posted since 9/13/2007. I have personally flagged it many, many times.


30 posted on 11/01/2009 1:17:38 PM PST by StarCMC (Sometimes you need a Jimmy Carter to get a Ronald Reagan.)
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