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<td>[ufpj-activist] Do Mass Killings Bother You?</td>
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<td>Fri, 4 Dec 2015 09:41:44 -0500</td>
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<td>David Swanson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:davidcnswanson@gmail.com"><davidcnswanson@gmail.com></a></td>
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<h2 class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_node_4996&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=OFDbMHDmM-oxqhngJRPhTV8r-yKTof1u45E02p9fZSw&e=">Do
Mass Killings Bother You?</a> </h2>
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<p>By David Swanson</p>
<p>We now know this. A young man who had successfully killed
on a large scale went to his religious leader with doubts
and was told that mass killing was part of God's plan. The
young man continued killing until he had participated in
killing sprees that took 1,626 lives -- men, women, and
children.</p>
<p>I repeat: his death count was not the 16 or 9 or 22 lives
that make top news stories, but 1,626 dead and mutilated
bodies.</p>
<p>Do such things bother you?</p>
<p>What if you learned that this young man's name was <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.democracynow.org_2013_10_25_a-5Fdrone-5Fwarriors-5Ftorment-5Fex-5Fair&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=g6jMFpTHrYQf4Ni9rRE-ffDZADKcGBdkl-H7ZFHGSDU&e=">Brandon
Bryant</a>, and that he killed as a drone pilot for the
U.S. Air Force, and that he was presented with a certificate
for his 1,626 kills and congratulated on a job well done by
the United States of America? What if you learned that his
religious leader was a Christian chaplain?</p>
<p>Do such things still bother you?</p>
<p>What if you learned that most of the people killed by U.S.
drones are civilians? That the pilots "double-tap," meaning
that they send a missile into a wedding party or a house and
then wait for people to try to help the injured and send a
second missile into them? That as a result one hears the
injured screaming for hours until they die, as no one comes
to help? That a drone pilot sent a missile into a group of
children from which three children survived who recognized
their dead brothers but had no idea that various pieces of
flesh were what was left of their Mom and Dad and
consequently <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.dronethedocumentary.com&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=NStK3U8rTvHTrsjpzWqTK61HzF2-vMM1tdaKsVtEp8k&e=">cried
out</a> for those now gone-forever individuals?</p>
<p>Is this troubling?</p>
<p>What if President Obama's claim of few or no civilian
deaths was proven false by well-documented <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.thebureauinvestigates.com_category_projects_drones_drones-2Dgraphs_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=uCWo6Rr3w1hqxyOHIfvfo0q-qR50nUa0e-GolVuknlg&e=">reporting</a>?
And by the fact that most victims are targeted without even
knowing their names?</p>
<p>What if a leading candidate for president in the past week
were to both declare that the way to win a war is to start
killing whole <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nymag.com_daily_intelligencer_2015_12_trump-2Don-2Disis-2Dwe-2Dhave-2Dto-2Dkill-2Dtheir-2Dfamilies.html&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=dvSgja_zosBTefliVpJbTBZ_T_QVPmefO_6KB1w4HQQ&e=">families</a>,
and stage a public Christian <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DfAgLnnkFOcg&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=vh7TVtC-MY6vur_2W3cKHfjrPkoV7KLk4mtiRDqPw4I&e=">prayer</a><span
style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 5px"></span>session
in order to win over a certain demographic of voters?</p>
<p>Is that bothering?</p>
<p>What if it became clear that police officers in the United
States have been murdering people at a higher <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__killedbypolice.net_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=ZJHQMZE4axapxOE6VxEEynQM5_f_Y4xsLgD6nMCC4IY&e=">rate</a>
than drone pilots? Would you want to see police videos of
their killings? Would you want to see drone videos of their
killings? We have thus far gained limited access to the
former and none to the latter.</p>
<p>What if it were <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__news.vice.com_article_san-2Dbernardino-2Dresidents-2Dthe-2Dcity-2Dhad-2Dpretty-2Dawful-2Dgun-2Dviolence-2Dbefore-2Dtoday&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=WgU4pwQ41bDb7zeorUAYs-liDYVsblt-QoaizkQ_0vc&e=">discovered</a>
that gun murders in San Bernardino are almost routine. Would
they all be equally tragic?</p>
<p>My point is not to cease caring about the tragedy that the
television stations tell you to care about. I wish everyone
would care 1,000 times more, and even better do something to
take away the guns and the hatred and the culture of
violence and the economic injustice and the alienation.</p>
<p>My point is that there are other tragedies that go
unmentioned, including larger ones. And exploiting one
tragedy to fuel hatred toward a large segment of the human
population of earth is madness.</p>
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<p><b><i>War Is A Lie: Second Edition </i>will
be published by Just World Books on
April 5, 2016. Please buy it online that
day. I'll come anywhere in the world to
speak about it. Invite me!<br>
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<p><b>David Swanson </b>is an author,
activist, journalist, and radio host. He
is director of <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__WorldBeyondWar.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=EtBVgSDFGb3ocn0Lv4qJFYawBHm54EzoX899b8_TAZA&e="
target="_blank">WorldBeyondWar.org</a>
and campaign coordinator for <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__RootsAction.org&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=Ff7wr0cDGq4O-AUJnju8zNv6dXaaGzYoYxjTC7ur1ro&e="
target="_blank">RootsAction.org</a>.
Swanson's books include <i><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__warisalie.org_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=iHevEBEXnBJPt6uxZasnYkvUUWA0sdXVFt3Jf0EFnEM&e="
target="_blank">War Is A Lie</a></i>.
He blogs at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=uzUlZs8PHfPLcpZbvmKvEXK8uAi8mqsJNcUGMgDD7RU&e="
target="_blank">DavidSwanson.org</a> and
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__warisacrime.org_&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=EOhQkwVPtjHequmc3B-FLDBZ2-XV0mEZ_sSFxgTFlTU&e="
target="_blank">WarIsACrime.org</a>. He
hosts <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_taxonomy_term_41&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=M2VXMVhU2uNUnhL-ZG2Xwatbc5Bu5EFLr7kI9zHXSpE&e="
target="_blank">Talk Nation Radio</a>.<b>
</b>He is a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__davidswanson.org_node_4682&d=BQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=-Zv9qpQiGEWFyjbykekrEL8huK9uBFyFG7Iu2H8CXNo&s=TuaFIAqJoxyrGkFol_vqCSBSAumHuYEeTirWv0pNb94&e="
target="_blank">2015 Nobel Peace Prize
Nominee</a>.<br>
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<p>Follow him on Twitter: <a
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