the filmed beheading
of an American (white) journalist
who chose (and was paid) to venture
intrepidly into dangerous territory
to get good photographs
(of Jihadists ? of misery ? of corpses ? of destruction ?)
is much more terrible and reprehensible
than the unfilmed deaths of many thousands
of brown people (not mentioning the dogs)
killed in white men's murderous misdirection.
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Have to agree that although his manner of death was appalling, I find it hard to have much sympathy for Western voyeurs who obviously get an ego boost out of being there. Excellent article on war journalism here: http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-much-war-journalism-is-like-pornography-it-uses-explicit-horror-for-the-titillation-of-the-readers-as-i-did-myself-from-beirut-26829199.html
Beheading has been one of the most common means of capital punishment. The most celebrated form takes its name from its proponent in Revolutionary France, the social reformer Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, who was, of course, not its inventor...
I am sure I'm not alone in saying that I myself would much prefer a spectacular beheading than the miserable deaths in hospital of my nearest kin, who were subjected to life-extending medical treatments which humiliated them, prolonged their suffering and made me an opponent of the pseudo-fluffy, financially and environmentally-expensive, technocratic, and almost obscene Western attitude to disease, suffering and death.
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I personally would rather be put to death - by hanging or beheading - than endure twenty years of prison. To me - and "miscarriages of justice" aside - imprisonment is much more barbaric (and pseudo-fluffy!) than capital punishment.
I think we just need to abandon cities:-) As the American hermit said, 'I was only ill when I came into contact with others'. (Paraphrasing). I know for a fact my health dramatically improved when I leave London.
Reporter and US "NGO" affiliate Mr. Foley met a spectacular and untimely demise:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-26/wtf-white-house-statement-day-syria-airstrikes-edition
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