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Topic: YouTube's shame of censorship
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 04 March 2008 03:12 PM
This marine through that puppy of a cliff for kicks.
YouTube, presumably fulfilling its patriotic duty has removed the video from its site. The story: [Removed link because it wasn't working and causing sidescroll, and I couldn't find the story online to replace it.] [ 04 March 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]
From: doom without the gloom | Registered: Feb 2005
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Michelle
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posted 04 March 2008 03:54 PM
Story from LA TimesAssociated Press story And oh god, I found a blog posting that links to the video. I clicked on the link but couldn't watch past them passing the puppy back and forth and saying, "aww, isn't he cute" because I knew what they were going to do. Sick bastards. And you know what they say about people who torture animals. Torturing and killing people isn't far behind. I really hope the video was a fake. [ 04 March 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 04 March 2008 04:20 PM
Yes it should be left up. These are what the military produces. Sick fucks. And it doesn't stop with cute puppies. Shielding people from the truth leads to claims of "I didn't know".If we can watch thousands of lives being wiped away with night vision on CNN, we can sure as hell watch this. ETA: I watched the video and was as sick as you might anticipate. There is a movie available on video. It is called In the Valley of Elah, based on true events and it shows how soldiers from Iraq are returning as psychopaths. I think this is a good example. [ 04 March 2008: Message edited by: Frustrated Mess ]
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rural - Francesca
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posted 04 March 2008 04:39 PM
I have an 18 year old daughter, who wants to be a vech tech. She loves horror movies, but freaks if an animal is hurt. She's spent 8 months working at an animal shelter so she knows man's inhumanity to lesser creatures.My fear is that the link will get circulated around the Internet and she will watch it, without really knowing what it's about. This would freak her out, and stress her out beyond belief. She's already very anti-American and at her age, context is sometimes lacking. She also sleep walks under stress and I know whatching this would mess her up big time.
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 04 March 2008 06:10 PM
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There you are, FM, witnessing the horror toughens people skin and makes it more acceptable.
Yes, and the meek shall inherit the earth. Or what is less of it.The reason so much horror takes place is because the majority of us either want it hidden from us, so we can pretend it isn't there, or we hide ourselves from it so as not to have to confront it. As we can witness on a global scale, such tactics have failed miserably. "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing," Albert Einstein. He might have added, or look away. quote:
Plus the soldiers are not in Iraq, but Hawaii for whatever difference that makes.
They are based in Hawaii but according to the blog posting Michelle posted they killed the dog in Iraq. It makes a difference if you consider that men capable of extreme cruelty and hardened to killing are now walking among civilians. And if it didn't happen in Iraq and they were never there ... well, then they're all home grown.[ 04 March 2008: Message edited by: Frustrated Mess ]
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