How Stuff Works IV

I originally intended another pictorial/video demonstration, but in all honesty I couldn't do it. I don't do death and war porn. Below, in the other parts of this series, I have shown the effects of DU (picture of deformed child). The decision to use the photo proved more difficult than I imagined, but in the end I posted it because it did not show the direct use of violence.

For this installment, I had intended to use a video which depicted the hanging of an Iranian woman, for murder and adultery, which sparked much outrage in the West, several years ago. A hanging which followed the alleged executions of two homosexual men and which accompanied the usual clarion calls for sanctions and war against Iran. For mine own, I despise the death penalty. I hate it with an unmitigated loathing, with an unvarnished and unadulterated disgust and contempt that borders honestly on the supra-rational.  I understand murder and the stupidity of human moments. I understand killing in warfare, especially for those who just want to make it to tomorrow.

I sympathize with Lucy Parsons, too.

But perhaps no act other than colonial warfare puts the claims of the State into sharper focus, revealing them as a charlatan's game and rank hypocrisy for all with eyes to see, than the death penalty.

The State that executes demonstrates the deception and evil inherent any States' claim to righteous protection of their subjects.

All the same, I had intended to juxtapose that video which sparked so much outrage with the images of the men executed by the Israeli commandos sent to do that wetwork by a beloved and coddled US protectorate.

I just cannot do it. Even a rat bastard asshole, like myself, has limits.

In both cases, we have executions. In the first incident, much bleating and chest thumping about Iranian oppression, human rights violations and enmity to "Western Values."

In the other case, no one in the corporate press or the American government expresses anything approaching condemnation, outrage or even disavowal. Nothing. No mention of human rights. No mention of shared values. Just nothing.

As Lindorff writes for Counterpunch (full link below),

"...Of the other eight dead, the medical examiners found that five had been shot in the back, or in the back of the head. This critically important information has not appeared in US news reports. Some American news organizations have left out the autopsy information entirely from their reports as of Saturday. CNN, in its report on Friday, did note that five of the nine were shot in the head, and at close range, but the all-important fact that most of the victims were shot from behind was left out. ABC had the same information on Thursday, again without mentioning the shots from behind. In its article on Friday, the NY Times had yet to even name Dogan, the American victim, much less mention the bullets that hit him or how he was shot."

 Full Counterpunch Story.


Yep. Shot in the back of the head.

Iranians hang people?

Drum beats for war.

Israelis gang land execute Turks delivering aid to Gaza?

Silence. Fucking silence.


In other words: How. Stuff. Works.