9-11 photo, Why I don't care if Terrorist are tortured.
It's an iconic photo. Published once. Then removed from main stream media. Because it's too heart breaking to look at.
Photo by Richard Drew for The Associated Press.
I watched a show this weekend on Discovery or the History Channel, or one of those about this photograph, and the "Falling Man". I can't remember which one. I only halfheartedly watched it. Not because I wasn't interested. Because my mind could not concentrate. Every time the photo, and the others the photographer took was splashed on the screen, I felt this man's despondency and hopelessness. The sheer desperation he must have felt to choose to fling himself from more than 90 floors in the air, to certain death.
Now I've been accused of being a bigot for some of my beliefs before. My religious oppositions, my oppositions to federal handouts, my support for police when a black thug gets shot committing a crime. The fact is, I hate no-one. I hate actions. I don't care if you're black, white, red, yellow, purple, pink, or chartreuse. Jew, Christian, Catholic, Atheist, Agnostic, or even Muslim. I don't care. AS long as you don't act the fool, break the law, or threaten me or mine, we have no problem.
But I will say, I hate with every fiber of my core, anyone who practices and supports terrorism. And if you ever ask me if we should torture terrorists, I'd show you this picture.
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I'm not sure if they have definitively identified this man. It really doesn't matter to me. I look at this like I look at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. An icon to the Unknown Victims of 9/11
I think they have identified this poor man, but kept it quiet, for his family's sake. An unusually sensitive move for our modern media...
I feel the same way you do. This picture is a horror.
I'll bet this author considers himself a "christian." There are a lot of reasons not to torture people besides religious ones but I do find it amusing that people with this mindset are revealing to us that they, too, have the terrorist mindset.
Right. Because indiscriminate terrorist mass murder is equivalent to judicial actions performed in response. Sometimes theophobia robs it's victims of reason.
"I'll bet this author considers himself a "christian.""
Why wouldn't he. Christians have a history of torture, genocide and murder. Much like they say Islam has.
The author couldn't give one rat fuck what you think.
I will never forget where I was or what I was doing when the first plane hit. I will never forget the conversations I had that day, how insanely quiet it was outside, and where my family members were, and where my friends were. I will never forget each collapse as they happened, the beeping sounds coming from the rubble, or the music that continued to play in the Sky Lobby. I will never forget the look on the faces of the people trying to get as far away from the towers, or what was left of them, as possible. I remember it all like it happened this morning.
So no, I have no problem whatsoever with any method used to extract information from an enemy (foreign or domestic) of the United States of America, that will facilitate putting an end to this particular nightmare.
I might off the cuff say yes to torture, but when reality set in, I would say no!
If I had to do it-- I couldn't.
@Magnoliaave :
"I might off the cuff say yes to torture, but when reality set in, I would say no!"
I guess I have a different view on it. I lost friends in New York and Washington D.C.. I've also lost friends in Afghanistan. I've seen the horrors first hand in Afghanistan and Iraq. For me, it's a definite YES. With no second thought.
Now don't get me wrong. I do not consider every Muslim a terrorist. While I have seen what the Taliban, al Queda, ISIS and the others do, I have met some amazing people in those countries and have made friends that I still keep in contact with.