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Bin Laden is dead (again)

I'm a little taken aback at the celebration of his death. My neighbors were celebrating on their front porch with beer and shotguns (always a good combination right?). Yelling at no one in particular, "911 is AVENGED MF'ER!" and a lot of other assorted phrases.

I'm not saying Bin Laden was a great guy but I the same tip I don't believe in celebrating a murder and that's what killing Bin Laden was by definition.


My shotgun carrying, beer swilling neighbors will be among the outraged when a retaliation killing happens and "those savage brutes are celebrating the murder of Americans in the streets".


Any celebration of killing is wrong. War is wrong.
Someone much greater than I said, "An eye for an eye leaves the world blind" and I truly believe that.

David Swanson wrote a great piece and I'd like to share it with you:
The plane I was on landed in Washington, D.C., Sunday night, and the pilot came on the intercom to tell everyone to celebrate: our government had killed Osama bin Laden. This was better than winning the Super Bowl, he said.

Set aside for a moment the morality of cheering for the killing of a human being -- which despite the pilot's prompting nobody on the plane did. In purely Realpolitik terms, killing foreign leaders whom we've previously supported has been an ongoing disaster.

26 Comments

well said.....

25 months ago

Thanks Leny, I appreciate your input. :)

25 months ago

"Imagine the propaganda the US media could make of the video footage of a foreign country where the primitive brute are dancing in the streets to celebrate the murder of a tribal enemy, this is the propaganda we've just handed those who will view Bin Laden as a martyr"

Couldn't agree more, not to mention he was killed yrs ago...this all seems to convenient for Obama whose ratings are in the toilet what a great way to get his approval back up after he's strong armed a heath bill that no one wanted (and still dnt want), continues to spend more of the money we don't have (he's giving away free cell phones), & holds the title of the first president in history to threaten the sovereignty of our nation (involving the UN in a state immigration matter).

Yes its time to pull out that old card we silenced yrs ago, we'll make you a hero sir ...yah right

25 months ago

@TK thank you - good comment and wholeheartedly I believe Obama's sucky poll numbers are a huge part of this "successful operation". I agree with you totally.

25 months ago

I do agree that murder is not a thing to celebrate, no matter how evil the person was who was murdered. This kind of behavior does not promote a peaceful atmosphere, but only initiates feelings that encourage others to seek revenge by more killing, thus when will it ever end? So many innocent lives have been lost throughout these wars, children and babies, etc., that part is so sad. I look at the loss of any life as sad, but it is sad, too, that there are leaders out there that are so evil that people feel they need to be destroyed to make this a better world. It's too bad that all the violence cannot be stopped by using nonviolent measures.

25 months ago

@Glenway agree absolutely with you. The "collateral damage" isn't reported in the Western News and the amount of civilians getting whacked isn't readily discussed either. Obviously, I am thoroughly against war.

25 months ago

Is it US policy or method to simply kill someone like Bin Laden without questioning or trial and without making a huge media circus out of it? "Osama Dead" Really? It's that simple? Do you guys seriously believe this? Seems just another method of manipulating the gullible. Just suggesting a probability...

25 months ago

@Jeff I'm just waiting for the part where they need to expand the Patriot Act to protect us against retaliation...pffffftttt.... I believe nothing in the U.S. mainstream media.

25 months ago

Indeed JoLynn. If this really is the end of Bin Laden, why is everyone so cheerful, all this means is that his followers and the like will want retribution, and goodness knows what that will be!

25 months ago

I would be lying if I said a part of me wasn't happy that he is gone whether it happened years ago, or this last week. At the same time I can't go as far as celebrating his death he wasn't a terrorist to everyone, to some he was very important. Its interesting because after I heard he was dead I was a bit relieved. Then after thinking about it, I thought well isn't that a bit convenient that he is dead all of the sudden right before its time for another election hmmm I have to say I agree with TK I think this is a ploy to get him reelected.

25 months ago

agree totally and american also need to be told CLEARLY a million times that these wars are NOTagainst mulsims my own stepmom thinks it is and ever awkward for a mulsim convert to deal with too as well on fourth of july i was walking across the street in my red white and blue hijab and outfit and i had someone yell out there car "GO HOME" i raised my eyebrow and laughed at the ignorance do i LOOK like i am from the middle east besides there being a scarf on my head? i was born in US from a family that has been here since before the US was a country a family that fought for MY right to decide what to think and believe and I AM being told go home haaha what? the 2 block walk back to my apartment ? hahhahaha

22 months ago

WAR IS A NO WIN SITUATION....

22 months ago

very nice

20 months ago

@Alexandra - I don't know where this comment was from you til now but I just saw it and it made smile for your humor and sad someone would actually say that to you.

20 months ago

I agree with the article

20 months ago

I agree with you,

very nice post, thanks for sharing

19 months ago

i m 2

19 months ago

Thanks Anil. Thanks Farooq and Milad -I appreciate your comments and thoughts :)

18 months ago

hassan…..,..why do you worship a moon god named allah????
hassan …why do you worship a pedofile mohammed???????
hassan….why do you call islam a religion of peace and offer a piece (7 virgins) in heaven for killing infedels???????
hassan….why do your people circumsize femles??????
hassen ……why do your people treat women like cattle?????
hassen …….why does the quran tell you to have sex with animals?????
hassen …….why dont you really read the quran…so you could see the big lie??
hassen …..why dont you admit allah is a moon god worshiped by your ancestors??
hassen……why dont you admit that mohammed was in his late 50's when he married a 6 year old girl
hassen …..why dont you just trust women…you must have a low self esteem and all the men of islam your all’s dicks must be pencil sized because thats why you circumsize your females to make sex painful so they wont never cheat….
hassen……you know as well as i do that mohammed was bisexual…..i mean if raping little girls wasnt enough…..why was he and his cave men getting it on ya know annal stile….and then there is the animals…yall must be a bunch of sick horny mother fuckers lol i meant that literal…cuz all of yuns keep it in the family…but aint your momma just a little too kin???and i guess her behavior makes you a target muzzie i mean after all your daddy could be your great grandpa, your grandpa, your uncle, your brother (waite would that make her a pedofile too???) your cuz or even the pig (but hey dont you kill women for having sex with animals???that luxery is for then men only)
hell this islam stuff is confusing
wo eteti kegbo anobi oba imo oba igbala oba pelepele badly taliban solders are bad olododo quran alasiri quran ifokobale ile ijosi akika ninu awon anbiyae ogbologbo enire asiwaju awon asiwaju thats is to say he testify that taliban solders annoy the ineterst muslim even in saudi arabia thats is why he was sent out the holy land when he hot usa feelings dajudaju anobi ko ninu awon musulumi ododo awon abiyamo ode aye ohun orun otito akika bi archangel micheal and archangel paul and oga patapata angel j bi ohun apa otun allah oluwa ohun bi eni ton seek bitikini kati se odale eniyan osama bin laden boko haram taliban solders and alqeada solders and angel nite oshin and top angel where angel admin love esekese till qitamot day of jugdement will end and start again from them and again and again and again because they break the heart that love tahala ododo ni oro quran
usa abeg dont mind them ojare na islam
abeg saudi arabia keep esposing them those boko haram and taliban
abeg egypt no mind foolish ununderstanding that pharao did not obey his lord tahala why did he use to bow down for his mother

18 months ago

I am curious Ramon, since you have such disdain for Islam, what are your own religious convictions?

18 months ago

nice information

16 months ago

nice post

16 months ago

Cent % Agreed Jo.. Thanks for sharing the link

16 months ago