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To: DoughtyOne
Show it. Show it all. The planes, the fires, the bodies hurtling through air, the aftermath of impact of human bodies on concrete. The armed thugs behind the bound hostage. The knives and the grappling hostage being sliced apart. The agonized screams and the blood spurting everywhere while the terrorists gleefully raise the severed head for all to see. They play to the Muslim audience, but believe the Western masses will cower in fear.

Show every second of everything they've done. Show it all so that people will know that their fate is reflected in what has occured. Show it all so that people will be sickened and show it because it reflects the true nature of the enemy beasts.

Show it because it is the truth. That's why we're here, isn't it? To expose the truth?

29 posted on 06/26/2004 10:33:59 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Ron Reagan has slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God.)
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IMO over the last several decades, we have suffered severe corsening of the U.S. culture, our major media players being the culprits. I know you folks think seeing extreme violence will win hearts and souls. IMO, it won't. Oh it may in the short term, but soon one beheading becomes 250, one major terrorist act blends in with hudreds of others. After a few years of this, the impact of those acts is lost. What you wind up with is an extreme corsening of our culture, on a level far too extreme.

The complacent you will always have with you. You and others on this forum are hard wired to not be complacent. Others are wired to be complacent. Corsening our culture isn't going to acheive the bliss you think it will.

Thanks for the comments. Wish I could agree that the showing of every aspect of these events would change minds. If seeing two buildings crumble knowing thousands were still inside doesn't shake the complacent out of their stupor, nothing is going to.

I have to go out, so I won't be able to exchange more comments with you. Have a great day folks.


32 posted on 06/26/2004 10:58:46 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Thumper1960
Show it. Show it all. The planes, the fires, the bodies hurtling through air, the aftermath of impact of human bodies on concrete. The armed thugs behind the bound hostage. The knives and the grappling hostage being sliced apart. The agonized screams and the blood spurting everywhere while the terrorists gleefully raise the severed head for all to see. They play to the Muslim audience, but believe the Western masses will cower in fear.

Show every second of everything they've done. Show it all so that people will know that their fate is reflected in what has occured. Show it all so that people will be sickened and show it because it reflects the true nature of the enemy beasts.

Show it because it is the truth. That's why we're here, isn't it? To expose the truth?

If today's self-censors were in the control booth in the 1940s and 1950s, all we'd have seen of the aftermath of WWII would have been proud German and Japanese soldiers on parade (don't want to create hostility toward the enemy, after all), and heavily sanitized reports from the field.

I remember books like, "The Theory and Practice of Hell". I doubt we'll ever see anything comparable in the aftermath of the islamic world war.

Of course, that may very well end up being due to the principle that asserts that the victors write the history books.

We've descended to a very dangerous position, in which we're not only forbidden to hate our enemy, but, we're obligated to honor him.

It's madness, sheer madness.

51 posted on 06/26/2004 10:55:56 PM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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