There are many good reasons for making the body of Osama Bin Laden "unavailable". He should have had the right to be buried by someone of his religion without a public spectacle and the chaos it might cause. Also, there are some lunatics around. I think of the movie "The Murder of Jesse James...". In addition, being shot in the head.....but he left this world with his dignity intact and the decision to do as was done was a mercy which I am pleased the USA bestowed.
Combining what little knowledge I have of the man from news reports, I can think of only one reason that he was captured and refusing surrender, killed. The same reason he would remain in an actual building for months. That is, he was deathly ill and expected to die soon anyway. Most likely, cancer of some type. It has been earlier implied that his tallness was due to a rare disease. There are some things we will never know for certain. And I take nothing the USA says on faith. They posture for the world but betray and make to suffer their own people. Not until this year would they even help the people who ran to aid the 9/11 victims. But they pretend they care. When one cares and loves, one does everything to make sure of the loved and cared for's well-being. The USA doesn't really care about it's own people, not really. Not when it comes to their survival at the hands of it's capitalistic megalopoly. But the rest of the world doesn't know that because of all the posturing and soliloquys which sells on the airwaves. And therein is part of why other countries "hate" Americans. They don't know the truth of everyday people. Only the things that half of Americans themselves hate. The Twin Towers belonged to all the world. Germany lost our bank on the site.
There is no doubt in my mind, given the strategic record of Osama Bin Laden, that these months while he was preparing for death, all transfers of power have taken place; all retaliations already planned. It is my hope that they will come to a clarity of mind with regard to exactly what and specifically who they are fighting against and to make it very clear to the rest of the world because I truly see no rationale or reason to these acts of prior times. Given the track record of what the CIA does do (see Once Upon a Time in Mexico, read "The Green Berets") I don't doubt that they are behind much of the internal wars in some parts of the world. The difference between those and what happens on US soil is not that there are no violent, financial and free speech suppressions in the USA, it is that most US citizens don't pick up guns when they happen. They do things called "Class Actions" and have lawyers go argue in court. No one outside the lawyers gains much, except perhaps anyone who glories in bankrupting some oppressing entity. Or they can sign petitions, write letters, make phone calls or complain to each other. They suffer. They die. More slowly than by gunfire. Some are beaten to death by spouses, parents, strangers. They are robbed not just by robbers but by corporations and mostly energy suppliers, as well as their own government. They are robbed of their houses, their shelter, their food, their medical provisions. And they do die. And no, that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Myself being a person who feels that people who abuse animals should have the right to be shot on the spot, I am disgusted by reports I have read about the way people mistreat one another in "the Bin Laden countries". It has never been clear if the Taliban et als were trying to abate or inflame the abuses persons have heaped on one another, especially against women. Not that it doesn't happen in the USA. It does. They also feel they have the right to mercilessly beat and abuse their children, the animals, or their spouses. I feel they too have a right to be shot on the spot. Sound a little Stalinistic? It comes from observing and suffering from them firsthand. The problem with person to person abuses is discerning which one is the puppet, which one is the echo, which one is the source. Unless you can weed them out, innocent people will be killed. Especially if one has become and expert liar and actress. Even the courts fail there.
I recall when the Taliban first emerged. The USA refused to help the people of Afghanistan in fighting them. I guess there was no oil to be had. Maybe part of the strategy to get the US into Afghanistan was to attack the US. Why mount attacks against the people of other nations who have done nothing against anyone, whose government did nothing against anyone? While they may have felt the USA's military brain was housed in the top of the World Trade Center, they certainly cannot make that claim about a Spanish passenger train. What, don't like the bullfighting? I abhor it. It is against my religion. So is murder, so is torment, so are all the things which God prohibits because they bring harm and damage his creatures. And I hate war. So why do people provoke to it? Someone attempting to impose their will on another human being or stealing what is not rightfully theirs is a primary cause of wars. In an instance such as Hitler, there is no other choice. When a nation invades another, what else could the result be? If you practice guerilla warfare on the world, what do you thing their response will be?If there is unrest inside a country, hard questions must be asked, especially if the country has been stable and unified for generations, as to why there was this subversiveness. Avenues for free exchange of ideas must be open. People must not be starved, oppressed, humiliated and beaten down. History has shown that there will come a time when people will throw off the chains of their oppressors, foreign or domestic.
But certainly now, Osama Bin Laden will not give us the answer unless he also spent these last few months making videotapes which are either undisclosed or undiscovered. For certain, there has been too much death in the hunt for one man who projected an image that said he saw himself as a kind of Templar Knight, a Holy Man who was a warrior.
Terrorism in any form is an act of oppression. It accomplishes no positive social change, it yields nothing productive. It only causes an expenditure of resources which should otherwise be used to better the lives of everything and all. And it targets the puppet, not the master; it chases the echo and leaves the source. Quite an exercise in futility from my perspective.
Combining what little knowledge I have of the man from news reports, I can think of only one reason that he was captured and refusing surrender, killed. The same reason he would remain in an actual building for months. That is, he was deathly ill and expected to die soon anyway. Most likely, cancer of some type. It has been earlier implied that his tallness was due to a rare disease. There are some things we will never know for certain. And I take nothing the USA says on faith. They posture for the world but betray and make to suffer their own people. Not until this year would they even help the people who ran to aid the 9/11 victims. But they pretend they care. When one cares and loves, one does everything to make sure of the loved and cared for's well-being. The USA doesn't really care about it's own people, not really. Not when it comes to their survival at the hands of it's capitalistic megalopoly. But the rest of the world doesn't know that because of all the posturing and soliloquys which sells on the airwaves. And therein is part of why other countries "hate" Americans. They don't know the truth of everyday people. Only the things that half of Americans themselves hate. The Twin Towers belonged to all the world. Germany lost our bank on the site.
There is no doubt in my mind, given the strategic record of Osama Bin Laden, that these months while he was preparing for death, all transfers of power have taken place; all retaliations already planned. It is my hope that they will come to a clarity of mind with regard to exactly what and specifically who they are fighting against and to make it very clear to the rest of the world because I truly see no rationale or reason to these acts of prior times. Given the track record of what the CIA does do (see Once Upon a Time in Mexico, read "The Green Berets") I don't doubt that they are behind much of the internal wars in some parts of the world. The difference between those and what happens on US soil is not that there are no violent, financial and free speech suppressions in the USA, it is that most US citizens don't pick up guns when they happen. They do things called "Class Actions" and have lawyers go argue in court. No one outside the lawyers gains much, except perhaps anyone who glories in bankrupting some oppressing entity. Or they can sign petitions, write letters, make phone calls or complain to each other. They suffer. They die. More slowly than by gunfire. Some are beaten to death by spouses, parents, strangers. They are robbed not just by robbers but by corporations and mostly energy suppliers, as well as their own government. They are robbed of their houses, their shelter, their food, their medical provisions. And they do die. And no, that's not the way it's supposed to be.
Myself being a person who feels that people who abuse animals should have the right to be shot on the spot, I am disgusted by reports I have read about the way people mistreat one another in "the Bin Laden countries". It has never been clear if the Taliban et als were trying to abate or inflame the abuses persons have heaped on one another, especially against women. Not that it doesn't happen in the USA. It does. They also feel they have the right to mercilessly beat and abuse their children, the animals, or their spouses. I feel they too have a right to be shot on the spot. Sound a little Stalinistic? It comes from observing and suffering from them firsthand. The problem with person to person abuses is discerning which one is the puppet, which one is the echo, which one is the source. Unless you can weed them out, innocent people will be killed. Especially if one has become and expert liar and actress. Even the courts fail there.
I recall when the Taliban first emerged. The USA refused to help the people of Afghanistan in fighting them. I guess there was no oil to be had. Maybe part of the strategy to get the US into Afghanistan was to attack the US. Why mount attacks against the people of other nations who have done nothing against anyone, whose government did nothing against anyone? While they may have felt the USA's military brain was housed in the top of the World Trade Center, they certainly cannot make that claim about a Spanish passenger train. What, don't like the bullfighting? I abhor it. It is against my religion. So is murder, so is torment, so are all the things which God prohibits because they bring harm and damage his creatures. And I hate war. So why do people provoke to it? Someone attempting to impose their will on another human being or stealing what is not rightfully theirs is a primary cause of wars. In an instance such as Hitler, there is no other choice. When a nation invades another, what else could the result be? If you practice guerilla warfare on the world, what do you thing their response will be?If there is unrest inside a country, hard questions must be asked, especially if the country has been stable and unified for generations, as to why there was this subversiveness. Avenues for free exchange of ideas must be open. People must not be starved, oppressed, humiliated and beaten down. History has shown that there will come a time when people will throw off the chains of their oppressors, foreign or domestic.
But certainly now, Osama Bin Laden will not give us the answer unless he also spent these last few months making videotapes which are either undisclosed or undiscovered. For certain, there has been too much death in the hunt for one man who projected an image that said he saw himself as a kind of Templar Knight, a Holy Man who was a warrior.
Terrorism in any form is an act of oppression. It accomplishes no positive social change, it yields nothing productive. It only causes an expenditure of resources which should otherwise be used to better the lives of everything and all. And it targets the puppet, not the master; it chases the echo and leaves the source. Quite an exercise in futility from my perspective.
