Collateral Murder

[poliphilo]

They're saying the footage that's up at Wikileaks under the title Collateral Murder comes across like a bunch of guys playing a video game, but that's not the only cultural resonance. As we watch the dying journalist try to crawl away from the killing zone we hear one of the soldiers in the circling gunship urge him to, "reach for a weapon." Sound familiar? Yes, of course; it's an echo of Dirty Harry's, "Go on, punk, make my day". So I guess art does have a corrupting influence after all.

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[algabal.livejournal.com]

You'll hear barely a peep from mainstream "liberals." They don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about how the Tea Parties are racist. Or how gay marriage is good.

Obviously, state-worship and personal insecurity (the two qualities they possess in spades) endear a great love of mass murder and the military.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yesterday, on the green space outside the Houses of Parliament, politicians were being interviewed about taxes and the economy and all that. In the background someone was holding a blue placard giving the number of Iraqis who have been killed, wounded or rendered homeless by the war. This person was resourceful and managed to manouevre themselves into every shot. It made the stuff the politicians were arguing about seem trivial.