Friday, June 4, 2010

Sorry, kid. I guess you don't matter.

Furkan Dogan was 19. He was an American citizen, born in Troy, New York and lived in Turkey since he was 2 years old. He was on board that humanitarian flotilla when Israeli thugs boarded it in international waters.

They put a bullet in his chest and four in his head at close range.

FOUR SHOTS TO THE HEAD.


Somebody want to explain that to me?

Was he still "resisting" after the first three head shots?

Somebody's gun accidentally discharge four times?

Maybe four different guys all just happened to fire at the same target at the same time?

Yeah.


So they’re spending ungodly amounts of your hard-earned money that they extort from you as "taxes," to “defend” us all from these invisible “terrorists” we’re all supposed to be afraid of.

And in "the land of the free," you can’t spit, sweat or scratch without somebody reading your email, tapping your phone, whisking you off to some secret prison for “detention,” or now, just “extra-judicially” murdering you.

All in the name of protecting the US from the terrorist bogeyman.


But what happens when heavily-armed thugs board a vessel -- in international waters flying the American flag -- and murder an unarmed American citizen?

What do we do about that?

Nothing.

Nada.

Buppkiss.


Unless you include puckering up and putting a big, sloppy kiss on the murderers’ backside.


Now, I’ll grant you, it’s a little hard for President Obummer to get all indignant about killing unarmed civilians considering how much of that the US has been doing in Iraq, and Afghanistan (and recently Pakistan) every day for the last decade.

The last couple of Presidents, plus the Congress, has been responsible for so much theft and murder, they make Hells Angels look like the League of Women Voters.


So it’s tough.

Pot.

Kettle.

Black, you know.




sj

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