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frankly I'm a little surprised at the number of people that just plain don't hold government accountable. Collateral damage video? No outrage over killing the
by vaksel 16y ago
frankly I'm a little surprised at the number of people that just plain don't hold government accountable.
Collateral damage video? No outrage over killing the civilians, Full outrage that they dared to add labels to a video.
This thing? No outrage over the fact that innocent people are getting killed...full outrage that WL dares to release information.
Seems like a lot of people are just plain authoritative and have full faith that anything they aren't being told is for their own good...when in reality it's just people covering their ass.
Without full transparency, they leave it up to sites like wikileaks to make decisions about things that might have military value, since they don't know 100% whether the thing they are reading is being censored because it's actually important or because the gov't just doesn't want bad PR.
The whole "these guys are assholes for releasing information about our bad deeds" just sounds like bs to me. Don't want bad PR? Don't commit atrocities.
Democracy can't function if the populace isn't fully aware of all the details.
- sp332 16y agoOutrage over civilians being killed? Been there, done that. We knew ridiculous numbers of civilians were being killed, like, 10 or 20 news cycles ago. No one cares anymore.
- ovi256 16y agoWell, banality of evil cannot be an excuse, it was not accepted at the Nuremberg trials for example. If you don't care anymore, you are a monster, and monster are destroyed.
- sp332 16y agoYou're talking about people participating in the killing. I just mean people who are hearing about it from the other side of the world.