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Comments on: Oops https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:13:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/comment-page-1/#comment-14234 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:13:04 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/#comment-14234 These people are all about avoiding responsibility: blame the victims, deny mistakes, attack those who report problems.

They are borrowing the procedures of Stalin to write “history” to their own specifications.

]]> By: andante https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/comment-page-1/#comment-14211 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:46:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/#comment-14211 If our so-called “Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy” is all about PR, and she considers suicide a “PR” event, perhaps she should give it a try.

]]> By: John B. https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/comment-page-1/#comment-14204 Tue, 13 Jun 2006 11:05:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/12/oops-3/#comment-14204 Graffy’s idiotic remark reflects the Neocon world view that PR is everything and, like the worst of Madison Avenue, that our Government can manufacture its own truths regardless of the facts. More telling, I think, was GITMO chief Adm. Harry Harris’ statement that the suicides were “an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

As Betty The Cow notes, “There’s speculation that the dead men were victims of a genuinely Kafkaesque circumstance, and there’s speculation that the US is the victim of the dead men. The former is forbidden, the latter, apparently, required.”

Why “required”? I’ve been do some reading about the Nazi concentration camps and Stalin’s gulags. One surprise, for me, was the documented history of serious and growing concern among the fascist camp administrators over suicides, desertions, depression, and other negative actions of the camp guards. Repeat: the guards.

Being a lawless, inhumane thug can have blowback even on fascist pigs. It’s quite possible Harris, who’s had plenty of time to prepare for the long-expected news of GITMO detainee suicides, is acutely aware of this and has decided, as Heinrich Himmler did before him, to portray those who object to concentration camp horrors as victimizing the people who run them (and by extension the nation itself.) Somewhat like the rapist who blames the victim, though far worse.

I grieve for America. We have become what we long abhorred.

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