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A Patriot's History of Wikileaks.org
A Tribute to the Brave Freethinker Over at UW Tacoma
posted Apr 14, 2010
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Like millions of Americans I watched the ideologically mystifying Wikilieaks.org first-person-shooter video filmed by a United States Attack Helicopter (manufactured by our own local Boeing Corporation) as it thoroughly killed a gathering of Iraqi civilians who were touring their own neighborhood accompanied by Reuters journalists. Now there are a few different ways to look at this event. There is the 'downer goggles' WORLDVIEW(tm) illustrated above the fold and then there is the 'summer-time-feel-good-hit' WORLDVIEW(tm) illustrated below the fold. Maybe you like bits of each and can assemble your own WORLDVIEW(tm) and that is a-OKAY with me.
Comments [35]
 by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 12:02am | Democracy Now's continuing coverage... www.democracynow.org/tags/wikileaks_coll... Here are some links I don't know what to do with... a.abcnews.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?... themelononline.com/2008/06/puppy-tosser-... |
by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 12:04am | MEANWHILE:
April 14 * 7 pm. A Celebration of Howard Zinn. Please join us in a celebration of the life and works of Dr. Howard Zinn. We will remember and honor the work Zinn has accomplished and begin to organize in ways we can further and continue his contributions to society. kingsbookstore.com/events.html#zinn |
by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 12:34am | Here is where I first read about the whole wikileaks video..
blog.thenewstribune.com/military/2010/04... |
by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 7:58am | Virtual War April 09, 2010 This week a leaked video of a U.S. military attack in Iraq that killed 12 civilians, including two Reuters journalists, generated much debate in the media. But most agreed on one thing: the footage looked like a video game. Technology writer Clive Thompson discusses what this means. www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/04/0... "CLIVE THOMPSON: Yeah, the military has actually spent like 100 to 200 years trying to get soldiers to kill people. One of the things they found, coming out of the First World War, was that a lot of soldiers, even faced with gunfire right in their face by the enemy, would not return fire. So the military worked for years on operant conditioning, you know, when something pops up, just sort of shoot at it, to get past this innate resistance to taking human life. And I think one of the reactions people are having to that video is that the behavior, judging by the audio, seemed kind of callous, and it seemed that there was this deep remove and lack of sense that, that there are actually people there. This gets into very complex terrain because, you know, to some extent, this is exactly what we as a society requires the military to do; we require them to basically put people in situations where they are able to kill people, without being tormented by it for the rest of their lives. And that - that’s why I'm sort of a little uncomfortable judging what’s going on in that video, apart from, I think, the perfectly legitimate question of there is a moral and ethical aspect to the way you design weapon systems. It’s been generally acknowledged that the further away the person is, the less you can see them, the more they're just a blip on the screen, the easier it is to pull the trigger." |
 by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 4/14/2010 @ 12:21pm | I can't imagine this Tacomic would have made it into the Volcano. Nice work, though. Nice tip of the beret to Picasso. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 1:02pm | Thanks Crenshaw, drawing it was a therapeutic exercise |
 by The Jinxmedic on 4/14/2010 @ 1:05pm | Yahoo comments tend to give you a good cross-section of national opinion, once they get into the hundreds. Not sure what the statistical deviation is, but comments from professed Iraqi citizens and US citizens working in Iraq at this news post are interesting (once you screen through all the flame).
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_re_mi... I, myself, have no comment on this post. Good luck. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/14/2010 @ 1:12pm | thanks for the link Jinxmedic! |
 by marumaruyopparai on 4/16/2010 @ 12:28am | Great contrast. |
 by Non Sequitur on 4/16/2010 @ 8:55am | wtf is this about?
No entienda, señor |
by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 4/16/2010 @ 8:58am | Tea Baggers would have made this cartoon more successful based on the Rob McKenna cartoon that seems to have posts at an historic level. Maybe you could have hung some tea bags from Kit Carson's hat. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/16/2010 @ 9:24am | this cartoon is a commentary about the book 'a patriots history of the united states' written by a General Custard impersonator UW Tacoma libertarian history professor. The book is the conservative rebuttal to Howard Zin's "A Peoples History of the United States" A Peoples History maintains that war is hideous and nasty an that the people who end up getting screwed over the worst by war are the innocent bystanders... people who have nothing to do with anything. A Patriots History maintains that USA is the best thing ever and that our wars are totally worth it no matter what. my tacomic examines the same recent tragedy but from two different perspectives. thanks for playing! |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/16/2010 @ 12:39pm | Great contrast. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/16/2010 @ 4:45pm | but yeah.. kinda a jumble. I'll try to do better next week. Thanks for your comments sirs. |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/16/2010 @ 7:24pm | Whatever dude, made sense to me. I thought this one was awesome. |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/16/2010 @ 7:29pm | And just before I forget to mention this, the implication of abstraction of human life via a nod to Picasso (I think that's what's going on there) that's pretty darn brilliant right there. If I'm interpreting that correctly anyway. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/16/2010 @ 8:16pm | that is correct sir. Picasso was right on. |
 by Dave_L on 4/17/2010 @ 9:21am | Yeah - I also spied the Guernica guy and his twin. A little more direct than Picasso... And gawd, is that Tojo??.... |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/17/2010 @ 1:07pm | I googled Guernica, maybe I understand a little bit better now. Thanks Mr. L. |
by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 4/17/2010 @ 5:15pm | From Wikipedia regarding the copy of Guernica at the United Nations:
A tapestry copy of Picasso's Guernica is displayed on the wall of the United Nations building in New York City, at the entrance to the Security Council room. Commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller, and placed on loan to the United Nations by the Rockefeller estate in 1985,[18] the tapestry is less monochromatic than the original, and uses several shades of brown. On February 5, 2003 a large blue curtain was placed to cover this work, so that it would not be visible in the background when Colin Powell and John Negroponte gave press conferences at the United Nations.[19] On the following day, it was claimed that the curtain was placed there at the request of television news crews, who had complained that the wild lines and screaming figures made for a bad backdrop, and that a horse's hindquarters appeared just above the faces of any speakers. Some diplomats, however, in talks with journalists claimed that the Bush Administration pressured UN officials to cover the tapestry, rather than have it in the background while Powell or other U.S. diplomats argued for war on Iraq. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/20/2010 @ 1:23am | yes hide great art under a curtain. I think J. Ashcroft did the same god damn thing with the lady justice statue because you could see her boob. A plague on both their houses! |
 by fredo on 4/20/2010 @ 9:37am | www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTHxkIfnxTA |
by NineInchNachos on 4/20/2010 @ 9:40am | who taught this guy how to copy/paste links? I want my country back. |
by fredo on 4/20/2010 @ 9:54am | ha ha, forgot to thank you for the internet lesson nachos.
I've got a link in mind for almost every commentor on feedtacoma, just waiting for the appropriate discussion. You'll be excited to learn I have a few more for you as well. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/21/2010 @ 2:16pm | Ethan McCord had just returned from dropping his children at school earlier this month, when he turned on the TV news to see grainy black-and-white video footage of a soldier running from a bombed-out van with a child in his arms. It was a scene that had played repeatedly in his mind the last three years, and he knew exactly who the soldier was.
Read More www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/2007-ir... |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/21/2010 @ 2:46pm | Good interview, thanks. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/21/2010 @ 2:53pm | I think we've got a long way to go to get real mental health help to our service people. |
by marumaruyopparai on 4/22/2010 @ 1:59am | You don't think that whole smoking approach is enough to keep soldiers mentally centered? Man, that on top of being told to clean the sand out of my vagina, I'm sure I woulda been just fine. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/22/2010 @ 8:16am | Catch 22! If you admit know you need to get mental help to deal with dismembered Iraqi children then that is a sane thing to ask for and so you aren't crazy and don't need mental help. |
by NineInchNachos on 4/26/2010 @ 9:13am | " Allen and Schweikart are rebels of sorts. In the world of academia, non-liberals are hard to come by. Allen is as Libertarian as they come. I have never met Schweikart. And he and Allen have only hung out on a few occasions, once watching Team America World Police in a small hotel room (picture that shit and tell me it's not funny!). Yet Schweikart comes off like your stereotypical, delusional, Fox News blowhard ... at least from my liberal perspective. If you didn't know any better, you'd expect pretty much the same from Allen."
www.weeklyvolcano.com/entertainment/spew... looking forward to the volcano article! |
by NineInchNachos on 5/5/2010 @ 1:12pm | good reads:
www.weeklyvolcano.com/mudroom/features/2... www.cityartsmagazine.com/issues/tacoma/2... |
by NineInchNachos on 7/27/2010 @ 8:48am | wikileaks is back in the news www.boingboing.net/2010/07/25/wikileaks-... www.boingboing.net/2010/07/26/wikileaks-... |
by NineInchNachos on 7/30/2010 @ 11:06am | THE ANTI-INTELLECTUAL'S INTELLECTUAL UW Tacoma Professor Mike Allen appears on Mike Lonergan's conservative AM Radio Talk Show!
thelonerganprogram.podbean.com/2010/07/3... |
by NineInchNachos on 9/9/2010 @ 9:52am | yikes!
www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/09/133366... |
by Crenshaw Sepulveda on 9/9/2010 @ 10:05am | Support the Troops!! If you can't stand behind them make sure you don't stand in front of them. |
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