Sunday, 09 July 2006
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... humans?
The other day, there was a story on CNN.com on the use of the Web in terrorism. It especially mentioned all these extremists videos that are readily available online.
I supposed it is due to the graphic nature of the videos, mainstream channels don't carry them (seems only Al Jazeera shows them). So, I did a google search, and true enough, you can find plenty of the videos. And most of them do show the beheadings of Western hostages, Iraqi translators, and other victims.
It is quite gruesome. People slaughtered like animals. The hostages make their pleas/statements. Then the captors literally hack and saw off the heads and put them on the decapitated bodies, all the while chanting... It is some disturbing stuff. And this is not some movie, not some sick joke, not isolated incidents. Imaging the lives we live, and the hell that goes on elsewhere -- right now.
People's capacity for .... for what we would call unthinkable barbaric acts in our sheltered society, it something that is almost .... accepted. Something that has happened, is happening, and will keep happening in the foreseeable future.
be warned...
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Comments (2)
We're lucky to be living in a place where such acts aren't tolerated. Our media really shields us from a lot of truths. We, as Americans, tend to worry about materialistic things rather than the real important things in life. This is evident by the lack of voting, the retarded tv shows, and more. Our minds need to be aware of such barbaric acts, such threat of terrorism so that we may better appreciate the small things in life.