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Nine questions for the day

I do not wish to offend by asking these questions. try to think of them as questions that are academic in nature. I ask these questions to illuminate, irritate and most of all, possibly cause you to think.

Questions:

1. In what way is the video of the madman different from showing the video of Osama or Zawahiri or Atta?

2. If we are losing in Iraq because there are still examples of bombings in markets, then why do people still advocate that schools in the US stay open with students in attendance, despite continued attacks by madmen?

3. When was the last time the media reported an act of actual heroism by a member of the military with the same breathless precision as the insane butchery of the madman of Virginia Tech?

4. If we have built a culture that debases heroism and the idea of sacrifice of the self and have replaced it with a culture based on self satisfaction and glorifies the notion of rejecting any idea of compliance to a societal norm; Then why are we so shocked when the results of our acts and values, become manifest?

5. Set aside the issue of comparative religious views and ask yourself, "How are the populations victimized by the insane mass murderers of the Pennnsylvania Amish school, Virginia Tech and Columbine, Beslan, the London buses and the Madrid trains different from the civilian populations of the Middle East"?

6. Since broadcast media are subject to the licence of their franchise to the public airways and are periodically called upon by the FCC to provide evidence that they have acted in the public interest, can you make a case why their reporting of the news in a continued biased fashion violates that portion of their franchise? My test case is the madman video and transcript, you may have more examples of how news reporting has acted to inflame or exacerbate a danger to the public.

7. When will Michael Moore and Rosie O'donnell say that the attacks on Virginia Tech were a government conspiracy designed to take away our rights?

8. Do you really need to know if the madman had a rational reason to kill 32 people at Virginia Tech? Is there any possible construct of a rational reason for such an act?

9. Does any offense prepretrated against the madman during his life provide a possible rational reason for you to excuse his acts?

I look forward to your answers. I will publish mine tommorrow.

Posted @ April 20, 2007 01:38 PM | Current Affairs

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