May 12, 2004
Murder.
An idiot named "Jeff" insulted me after reading my last entry here, claiming that I "have no concept of the real world" and said that I should be ashamed of myself. (As to that last suggestion, I suggest that Jeff perform an anatomically improbable action upon himself. Twice.) He then asked me,
By the way, where are your comments on Nicholas Berg!!
Well, I definitely do have a comment about Nicholas Berg, Jeff, but I don't think you're going to like it very much. Yeah, it's horrible for his family, yeah, it was a horrible way to die. Sure, yeah, it was a bad thing. He certainly didn't deserve what happened to him and the pricks that did it definitely deserve to have justice served them. On the other hand, what about this? Or this? Was Berg's death any more horrifying than the hundreds of deaths in Fallujah? Deaths, by the way, of women and children, not just men and certainly not just "terrorists."
The answer is that no, it's not. The only difference is that this death was televised. Those hundreds and thousands of others weren't.
I feel for Berg's family. So do a lot of other people. I just have one question, though:
Where the fuck was that concern when innocents were dying in Fallujah a month ago or all over Iraq a year ago?
Hmmm?
Posted by Frank at May 12, 2004 7:46 PMWhy is it that my only comments to you are to tell you how good you posts are?
Thank you.
Once again.
Posted by: Michael Miller at May 12, 2004 11:53 PMDunno, you're just speechless in awe of my sheer brilliance, maybe? Or possibly just gasping at my mastery of bullshit; one or the other, anyway. :-)
Seriously, thanks, I appreciate the praise.
Posted by: Frank at May 13, 2004 8:06 AMTelevising Berg's death isn't the only thing that made it different. Berg was an American. Most Americans seem to think that our blood is more precious than anyone else's. Sad, but true.
Posted by: JadedEye at June 3, 2004 2:01 AMI dunno, it seems to me that Americans have been dying right and left, as well as being maimed and mutilated. There are a steady stream of flag-draped coffins coming into Dover AFB and yet those deaths haven't generated even a fraction of the outrage that Berg's death did.
Difference: Those other deaths weren't videotaped.