Virginia and Iraq

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Aboali.
Categories: Politics, Ramblings.

Cho Seung-hui AKA Lara Croft!

32 dead in Virginia and the world is in uproar. It makes front page headline news in all the international media for 5 days. heads of state and foreign ministers send condolences, candlelight vigils, mass rallies, cries for change, harrowing eye witness accounts, video footage, reports , documentaries, analysis……all of the world’s press descends on Virginia Tech….

100 people a day are massacred in Iraq… hardly anyone notices….just another by-topic to include somewhere in the news broadcast…. just this week 178 people were blown to bits in car bombs in Iraq… where are the candle lit vigils for those people? where are the outpouring of grief? where are the letters of condolences from heads of state? where are all the voices calling for change and something to be done?

Ofcourse, the massacre in Virginia and the massacres in Iraq have one thing in common, they were both caused by a crazed, deranged individual…….in one case it’s a student, in the other it’s a president!
The real irony is that apart from the obligatory increase in flags that Americans resort to when they’ve “been had”, there’s almost no serious steps being taken to insure that a “mini-Iraq” doesn’t happen again in the states. Americans are still wondering how it could have happened….! as if it doesn’t happen every other month! the only real talk of taking action, is directed at stopping deranged nuts before they start going Rambo, just another f****d up misfit from the Americana/holywood/media/mtv pop culture delusion where everyone is supposed to be white, good looking, rich and successful. Those who fail to fit into this distorted category and aren’t pretty enough or rich enough view themselves as worthless or find themselves being outcasts ….which leads to head cases like Mr.Cho Seung.

As if the fact that 200 million guns amongst the populace wasn’t a valid reason……nah, it’s the fault of a crazed lunatic….he did it, not the guns…..can you then please explain to me how that very same crazed lunatic could have killed 32 people if he was armed only with a kitchen knife?

Watching these events unfold in the states is more than pathetic, it’s quite sickening. what valid reason can there be for American people to be the most heavily armed population in all of human history? What argument for gun ownership can possibly out weight the consequences for it? the countless massacres and gun related deaths?

Not content with keeping their violent murder culture to themselves, Americans are now exporting violence wholesale to the world….Iraq is currently the unlucky recipient, but it’s coming soon to a country near you…..

Wake up people, Virgina x3 is happening everyday in Baghdad……

3 comments.

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Sugar

Comment on April 24th, 2007.

Well, I guess in Iraq the situation is a little bit different because it is in a state of war…so people are excepting to hear about bombing or people get killed, whereas in any university in the world such an action should not happen….people go there to study not to get killed!
I feel sorry for what happened to those innocent students and to the innocent people in Iraq…. I think the American government should really consider taking some serious actions toward selling guns to public…
Anyway, thank god it was not committed by an Arab or something….imagine!

webmaster

Comment on May 9th, 2007.

Hey Dark1, cool site! As for the awful Virginia Tech massacre and the ongoing grotesque slaughter in Iraq, well there are apparently millions of outraged US citizens who are well aware of the ongoing crimes in Iraq but their corporatized mass media adamantly refuses to fully reflect their concerns.

I’d say don’t judge the American people by their massively unpopular president or their tightly controlled mass media, and their constitution enshrines the right to bear arms precisely with respect to an outlaw federal executive.

According to some polls one in three of them believe the Bush regime was responsible for the 911 murders, think about that in relation to gun control and you’ll get a hint of just how crazy US domestic politics is at the moment. And it gets crazier by the day.

TheDark1

Comment on May 9th, 2007.

Hey Thanks for stopping by, and thanks for all your help with the media player,You’re a really cool guy!!

You make a good point, and I couldn’t agree more. We don’t hate Americans, hating an entire nation or a people is just plain racism and it’s so wrong, infact, as far as most Arabs are concerned, Americans are good, honest hardworking people who built a great nation for themselves, and continue to uphold important principles like human rights, personal freedom, justice, equality and environmental conservation, not to mention all the great scientific and technological innovations which have contributed to advancing the world and human kind. Without America we probably wouldn’t have computers, or the internet for that matter!! We also wouldn’t have medicines which save millions of lives….the list goes on and on, and when all is said and done, the world has a lot to be grateful for.
No, we don’t hate Americans, we want to be more like them!

But it’s a totally different story when it comes to the U.S government, and the awful media. It’s just so frustrating for us to watch the U.S government trample all over us, and have the media cheer it on….it’s a great shame to see them distort the very values that make America a great nation.
Iraq, Guantanamo, CIA abductions, AbuGhreb, torture, bombing Arab news agencies, inciting civil war in Lebanon and Iraq …..unfortunately the list is as bloody as it is long.

Maybe sometime in the future the American people will get it together, and finally elect a government which truly represents all that is great in America…..well, I’m hopeful anyway…

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