America Assassinating Americans

[davidswanson]

Run time: 05:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLt0WIQNV98   Posted on YouTube: February 06, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 07, 2010 By DU Member: davidswanson Views on DU: 1006

 

[Turbineguy]

1. Let's buy

David Bossie and Jerome Corsi a nice vacation trip to Iraq.

[WileEcoyote]

2. Maybe this news anchor is just asking questions from a script

but either the questions or her demeanor makes her appear to be an airhead.

"Why can't you be more reasonable and just trust the President and the CIA at everything they say"?

This woman words don't seem much removed from statements made by Brittany Speares.

[dbmk]

4. When the questions are so obviously designed and slanted

..it is going to make the person uttering them sound idiotic.

Why do so-called progressives continue to appear on a network run by and for a homophobic and antidemocratic dictatorship?

[WileEcoyote]

5. Mixed reasons

1. For the money.

2. Because they believe that even a watered down version of Liberalism is better than none at all. Obama's pragmatism too. And they may be correct.

Even Bill Maher is a tool. His strident and ill considered opposition to the 911 truth movement is despicable. Devalues all the good work Maher does.

[davidswanson]

11. Speaking as the speaker in this video

I've never been paid a dime to appear on Russia TV. WTF??

Obama is not engaged in pragmatism, but genocidal imperialism. Sorry if I did not make that clear.

[WileEcoyote]

12. Wasn't talking about you

was talking about the airhead who recited the military industrial complex talking points.

I really liked your talk. Good work. Must have been annoying to deal with the news anchors stupid questions.

[Goldstein1984]

6. Yes. I don't care for this messenger either

So I completely reject the message.

Extrajudicial killings of American citizens without due process based on the opinion of a bureaucrat that the citizen represents a threat to the citizens of the United States of America, like all immoral, unethical and unconstitutional assaults on human beings is, in my opinion, okay because...

The person doing this interview appears to be an airhead reading from a script and I am completely unaware of all of the other sources of information that corroborate the argument made in this video.

[shotten99]

3. RT=Russia Today

This is a government owned mouth piece in the tradition of Pravda and News Corp.
They're fair and balanced.

[Mithreal]

8. How does that compare to BBC and CBC? Someone could charge them the same.

just say no to flaccid ad hominems, corporations are people too, dontcha know

I don't know who you are, care to provide a link establishing the veracity of your claims that the network shouldn't be taken seriously?

[Goldstein1984]

7. There are two posts in this thread that

attack the messenger without commenting on the message.

I recommend that these people do a simple Google of subjects like "extrajudicial killing" and "collateral damage" and maybe even do a quick read of the U.S. Bill of Rights while they read many of the other sources of information on this topic. For example:

The New York Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/assassinating-americans-killing-the-constitution/

The Raw Story: http://rawstory.com/2010/02/kill-americans/

Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/02/05-6


People! You're starting to use the same tactics as Republicans. You're embarrassing a lot of good Liberals.

[Mithreal]

10. +1

:thumbsup:

[dbmk]

13. You state that the message was not commented on..

.. yet reply as if it was doubted.

I have no opinion on the validity of the story.

But I do have an opinion on Russia Today. And a lot of good liberals are embarrassing themselves by letting themselves be tools of an antidemocratic dictatorship. Which is what they are doing when they appear on RT.

The people behind RT are basically the antimatter to what I would consider the principles and dreams of a place like DU.

There is plenty to criticize the US administration for - but doing it via someone who is infinitely worse is ridiculous.

[avaistheone1]

9. Disgusting that our government is being run like this by our leadership.

People are getting fed up with what is going on in Washington including these crimes and abuses.

The folks who are carrying out these crimes need to be held accountable at all levels.