May 14, 2004

Nick Berg Video

i generally avoid politics; however, i just saw the nick berg video over at burnt-fuse and in a word it was sick. blood, guts, and gore generally don't bother me and frankly the film isn't graphic by hollywood standards, but to see those 5 scumsucking bastards do that to a real person made my skin crawl, much less considering all of their underlying motives.

not that an event like this could ever be truly understandable, but one thing that sticks in my mind is this. if these 5 people (and i use that term loosely) believed so much in their cause and found this murder to be just --- why did they hide their faces? why wouldn't they be proud to fight for their cause and take credit for their actions? cowards! fucking cowards! that is what al-qaeda must translate to in english -- fucking cowards! clearly they aren't fighting for a cause, they are pure evil and need to be stopped.

i hope when our soldiers in the middle east start feeling bad about having taken lives while they were fighting for their cause -- for our cause -- that they remember nick berg and others like him. that they show their faces, take careful aim, and are proud of what they are about do.

lastly, and it may be terrible to say, but having seen that video, i have far less sympathy for the peoples as a whole over there. maybe i should feel more for them (the innocent ones at least) who are all but forced to live there, but i'm not. you want your lives spared, then rise up! simply point out where these scum-sucking bastard terrorists are so they can be removed from your devistated country (in body bags). then we'll leave. it's that simple.

update: 5/16
apparently there are some conspiracy theories going around and some interesting points are being made, i'll give 'em that.

Posted by ac at May 14, 2004 09:59 PM

Comments

ah and his murder has done the job it was supposed to do.

Posted by: Enigma at May 15, 2004 10:24 AM

did it?

Posted by: ac at May 15, 2004 12:37 PM

My first thought when I saw the video on the news was what a bunch of cowards. They knew they killed an american and they better hide. I echo your sentiments to the letter. Someone sent me the whole video. It took me an hour to watch it. It'll take a lifetime to forget. I cried. How can someone do that to another human? What a horrible way to die.

Posted by: Natalie at May 16, 2004 08:07 PM

and not that it matters, but there seems to be a number of people that think there is a conspiracy going on here. i'll admit that some of the points made make a person go "hmmmm"... but to me it is still so far-fetched (the conspiracy theories) that i'll wait for hard evidence.

Posted by: ac at May 16, 2004 08:12 PM

there are some very good points. I went back and watched it again, to be objective, and there's no way. The dubbing is horrible that is true. There is large gap in the time sequence maybe. Not if they used two different cameras, one set to military time and one to regular time. The one on military time would have been exactly an hour slow. They do daylight savings time over there? I hope he was already dead thou, I can't figure that out, and being objective or not I can't stomach watching it a third time.

Posted by: Natalie at May 16, 2004 10:31 PM

Oh yea and far as "parade rest" I don't think so,lol. Maybe there hands look so white because there clothes are so dark? I think I need more proof as well.

Posted by: Natalie at May 16, 2004 10:35 PM

that same article at kur5shin had a response that said many of the things you mentioned. i certainly don't agree with all the authors assertions; however, some things they bring up are "interesting" and make it easy to believe there is more to this story than what we all see on the surface.

Posted by: ac at May 16, 2004 11:34 PM