Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Does death have a color?

A nine year old girl accidentally shot her gun instructor in the head with an Uzi submachine gun in Arizona in the US. Apparently parents teach children as young as 5 years of age to shoot. But there is no UN or Amnesty International reports of children being armed in the US as there is about Syria. Seems to us that the only difference between children armed with guns in the US and in Africa is the color of their skins. Of course, children in the US are better dressed. Is there a difference between children killed by civil war in Syria and those killed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012 with 5 year old children having an average of 11 bullets in their little bodies? Is it very bad to be killed by a barrel bomb dropped by Assad's planes in Syria but good to be killed by a Daisy Cutter dropped by a US plane or by a Hellfire missile launched by a US drone? Do you go to heaven if killed by a white man but go to hell if killed by a colored one? The apparent beheading of the American freelance journalist, James Foley by an Islamic State fighter, nicknamed Jihadi John, has caused uproar in the US and western countries, although the video has been pronounced a fake. British and US special forces are already in Syria to try and catch the culprit. The US was already bombing IS terrorists in Iraq but Obama has given orders for them to be bombed in Syria as well. First massacre tens of thousands of Iraqi Sunnis by using ' Shock and Awe ' tactics and when they come looking for revenge bomb the hell out of them again, regardless of how many civilians are slaughtered as ' collateral damage ' in the process. It is like a doctor prescribing very strong medicine which causes side effects and he then prescribes further medicines for the side effects which cause different side effects and so on until the patient dies. What is already happening in Iraq and Libya and will shortly happen in Afghanistan. If the killing of James Foley was bad what about the shooting of sound recordist, Bryce Dion by police in Omaha, Nebraska while filming an episode ' Cops ', a TV series on real life police action? Oh yes, it was an accident, just like that of the 9 year old girl. But Dion was wearing a bullet proof vest so what kind of ammunition were the police using in a city neighborhood? The man in Foley video will be hunted down and probably killed because Foley was white but the killer of Trayvon Martin walked free and so probably will the killer of Michael Brown, because both the killers are white. What we would like to know is, " Does death have a color? "

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