tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6110790892227125050..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: American Terror Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64696353591845895282015-02-14T05:15:22.576-08:002015-02-14T05:15:22.576-08:00Hilton,
It's hard to confront this extremely...Hilton, <br /><br />It's hard to confront this extremely troubling story, yet, as you suggest, at the same time, difficult to turn away.<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2015/02/craig-stephen-hicks-angry-white-men-and.html" rel="nofollow">Craig Stephen Hicks, Angry White Men and Falling Down</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30449998009478823102015-02-13T05:39:44.938-08:002015-02-13T05:39:44.938-08:00Unbearable - and the array of photos tells the sto...Unbearable - and the array of photos tells the story. Hatred that gets barely a mention - just a "man" arguing over a parking space and not a "terrorist" hating an entire religion. Such beautiful kids. More and constant attention needs to be focused on this crime. Thanks for posting this.Hiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04497545378045907642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50222825318428920222015-02-12T23:56:12.846-08:002015-02-12T23:56:12.846-08:00billoo,
Thank you for your strong voice, coming,...billoo, <br /><br />Thank you for your strong voice, coming, once again, from far away, and for your good heart.<br /><br />Many thoughts crowd and perhaps cloud, the mind, tonight.<br /><br />It would be impossible not to have been impressed by the uncommon poise and dignity of the stricken families, in their grief, and amid the madness -- which, not surprisingly, has included further waves of vicious and indeed quite terrifying (that word again) abuse, from pretty much the same, hideously predictable, by now almost robotic quarters.<br /><br />It seems the current broad interpretation of the US Constitution, among today's gang of born-again gun-totin' redneck patriots, is that it is a document whose principal use is to guarantee the defense of the freedom to possess and use at will just about any sort of lethal weaponry money can buy.<br /><br />And that interpretation also apparently permits a venomous mound of flesh like this natural-born killer to become. yes, a national hero, now lauded for having the courage (some might call it cowardice, but that's language for you) to barge into the home of some young, bright, happy, community-oriented, peace-loving citizens who've been guilty of nothing more than being who and what they are, and blow their brains out at close range.<br /><br />Read into the detail of the reported testimony a bit, and it will be clear that the victims had been troubled and fearful about the unwanted attentions of this killer for some time, and with, as is now plain, very good reason, and had considered, and discussed among themselves, the option of calling the police.<br /><br />But, being no dummies, they would, it is highly likely, have had reason to be anxious that taking that step could also have negative consequences, this being a police state, and all. <br /><br />The courage and composure, in standing up to represent her family, of the elder sister of Deah Barakat, has been remarkable, allowing the world to see a bit of just what it is that is so violently hated by peckerwood amerika -- that is, the unmistakable evidence of the presence in people like the unfortunate victims of this hate crime of a superior culture; and to consider the pathos of the consequences that may come to those who dare to show difference, thus defining themselves, for all their resolute intention to "blend" and "buy in", as dangerous strangers in a deeply xenophobic, atavistic society. <br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rVLYyfn8XY" rel="nofollow">Suzanne Barakat, physician and older sister of the slain Deah Barakat, interviewed by Anderson Cooper of CNN</a><br /><br />This song has been on my sleepless mind since yesterday -- particularly apt, the bit that comes in at about the two-minute mark.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5MG1ZfFiZ8" rel="nofollow">Mary Gauthier: Mercy Now</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2199737259319717052015-02-12T21:04:26.394-08:002015-02-12T21:04:26.394-08:00Thanks, Tom. The wedding photo was incredibly sad ...Thanks, Tom. The wedding photo was incredibly sad and beautiful at the same time. Not just because it could have come from any culture, could have been any father and daughter, but because it captured a particular moment in a particular person's life, a moment of happiness-and yet, now, it seems like a dance out of time (outside time), ecstatic, oblivious of the future.billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37491253894351169122015-02-12T18:04:24.521-08:002015-02-12T18:04:24.521-08:00Encouraging to hear this testimony, and not surpri...Encouraging to hear this testimony, and not surprising that all of it comes from outside the US. You can lead the blind to a blind spot, but it will look just like home.<br /><br />Our friend Michael Lally -- that rare American who grasps that there is a world over which the new garish bling-ring tones of the red white and blue concept of freedom through domination by a few, submission by many, does not yet quite totally prevail -- linked to this post today. <br /><br />Michael's point was directed to the weakness and deceptiveness of the way this story was treated in US major media.<br /><br />Maybe it could be safely said that there was some covering going on here, on the part of Big Media, but really that's been, as always, more like covering up -- distorting, whitewashing, erasing.<br /><br />American terrorism and the gun-nut culture and religious persecution and Islamophobia and generalized suspicion of The Other, on these mighty foundations our nation currently supports itself, the grand POS that it has become. And pretty much nobody wants to know, and so, I guess, pretty much nobody is going to find out. <br /><br />But oh, one senses that elsewhere, eyes are open, we are now being seen for what we are.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37036291195758748782015-02-12T09:33:50.541-08:002015-02-12T09:33:50.541-08:00oh tom. i was afraid to click through on this post...oh tom. i was afraid to click through on this post... for good reason.<br /><br />i am stunned. stunned and sickened. <br /><br />there is no response, i think, that can be just enough but to lie down at the feet of the victims' families, that community, and mourn with them. mourn deeply.<br /><br />and i am embarrassed and enraged that our public national news (cbc) did not even mention this violent incident last night on the radio. (i only listen to the news, sometimes read it; never watch it.) i reel with the implications. news agencies should be ashamed. ashamed to the core for their omissions and their race/religious rhetoric which can only further incite hate.<br /><br />... (sickened by this potentiality of us) ...erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16636371927224076866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76016803195501118132015-02-12T08:18:57.047-08:002015-02-12T08:18:57.047-08:00My condolences to the three young American Muslims...My condolences to the three young American Muslims!<br />C.A Hicks is no more than a monster and a terrorist. I am outraged !L'Enfant de la Haute Merhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17122358316297267842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67964390976147737382015-02-12T08:10:42.305-08:002015-02-12T08:10:42.305-08:00Tom - This is an extraordinarily powerful, heart-b...Tom - This is an extraordinarily powerful, heart-breaking, necessary post, and it's pretty unbearable that you ever had cause to put it together. The depths of paranoia and hatred plumbed by those Facebook streams are terrifying. And the fact that Fox News has carte blanche to whip this frenzy up with any laughable lie or fantasy 'fact' it cares to invent - ah the beauties of free enterprise and a free media.Barry Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02121653352771218338noreply@blogger.com