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Skip to comments.The Cuban assassin with a deadly secret: 'I shot JFK
Posted on 11/17/2013 8:06:12 PM PST by fella
And now, he has a name, of a man who fits the bill as Kennedys killer, who is said to have confessed his involvement in the assassination before being killed in a commando-style raid on Cuba.
I have tried to write a book for the sane citizen that is open both to the lone assassin theory and something more complex, says Summers. The evidence that Oswald fired is pretty strong but also full of weaknesses. Why, if it was Oswald alone, do 1,171 CIA documents on the subject remain classified in the year 2013? There is no doubt something was and still is being concealed.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
He and many others make this claim.
Mr. Rate: Would've been a bad job to take, though.
Nick Memphis: How come?
Mr. Rate: Whoever took that shot's probably dead now. That's how conspiracy works. Them boys on the grassy knoll, they were dead within three hours. Buried in the damn desert. Unmarked graves out past Terlingua.
Nick Memphis: And you know this for a fact?
Mr. Rate: Still got the shovel!
"The right wingers did it". What a load of crap.
" - - - There is no doubt something was and still is being concealed. - - - "
B. Hussein, aka Barry Soetoro, has his personal records sealed.
You don't suppose that these records are sealed to conceal something, do you?
I've always thought that Oswald was a shooter. I never thought he was the ONLY shooter though.
Elvis shot JKK.
I watched an hour long special on JFK last night on CBS. I thought it might be interesting but it was the usual Kennedy and his American Camelot tale.
Plenty of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather quotes. They did touch on the various assassination theories and basically toed the Warren Commission line.
They may well be right about that. I am certain Lee Harvey Oswald shot at him and maybe was the lone assassin but boy the whole thing sure reads like a conspiracy.
that man was LBJ. The Kennedys weren't going to just dump him they were prepared to prosecute him IIRC; several of LBJ's cronies were already being investigated including number one Bobby Baker from LBJ's Senate Majority Leader days and Billie Sol Estes.
Many of us back then knew that Landslide Lyndon done it. He didn't pull the trigger but he got her done. Another book is out seeking to prove it. That's three by my count starting back when it happened.
Dammit! I shot JFK! When are people going to get it through their heads?
There has been about two days worth of JFK assassination stuff on my sat. TV, but I do not recall who was airing it...History? FOX?...I did not notice.
I do remember the assassination. I had just come out of Geology class at the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"When after all, it was you and me."
I think LBJ was capable of just about anything but I have never seen any real evidence of his involvement.
Several years ago, I was going through the attic of my G Grandfather's old deserted house. It was located in the middle of nowhere in the Florida Panhandle.
To my surprise I found an old copy of the Texas State Baptist Newspaper. I have no idea why G Grandpa Padgett subsribed to that paper but he did. I think it was from the late 40's.
On the back page was a full page ad from LBJ seeking the Baptist vote and promising an ethical Christian government if elected.
I still think that was funny. He surely fooled a lot of people.
About 25 years ago I heard a 76 year old man on a radio interview who claimed to have been a CIA operative and said he had delivered the weapon to Dallas. He said there was a South American dictator in town and he thought that's who was going to be hit. He said the CIA had tried to kill him in on the Maryland Turnpike and the state police ended up in a shoot out with them. The interviewer said he had confirmed that with the Maryland State Police. When asked why he was willing to talk he said "I'm 76 years old. What can they do to me?"
The best article I ever saw was in Texas Monthly about 20 years ago. A young man said his father made a deathbed confession that he was the one who killed Officer Tippet. He said his father was in the Marines with Oswald and had only been on the Dallas PD for one month but had never filled out an application. He told his son about a trunk in their barn. His son said he gave it to a guy who said he was an FBI agent. He said he contacted the FBI a few months later and they said they had no one working there by that name.
Oswald was the Lone Gunman, period.
KGB did an excellent job of diverting Americans' attention in the assassination story. Oswald came back from the USSR, didn't he? (More about that later.) He also visited the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City.
We've known for a long time that the Soviets had their agents in the US. Agents and sympathizers, useful idiots. Where, what did they do? No one seems interested in knowing. Even the $30 million or so a year transferred (how? what did it pay for? How about the so-called "civil rights movement"?) to Gus Hall is of no interest. How about the possibility of those KGB agents behind all those conspiracy stories, theories, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM, implicating the Soviets (talking about the published theories.)
Next, we have heard of stories of Americans marrying a Russian and UNABLE to get that Russian to leave Soviet Union for years on end despite diplomatic interventions on the highest level. Here again, no one wants to add 2 and 2 and ask how come Oswald and his lovely Marina were so easily allowed to leave?! Duh!
Oh yes, I've read the recent accounts that have Oswald being an idiot that the Soviets were just happy to get rid of. Maybe. Or maybe not, since there were no other such returning defectors.
Even if there was no conspiracy and Oswald acted alone, everything from the beginning has pointed to the Soviets, and nothing to the Mafia, to the CIA, LBJ, and other fairy tale monsters of your silly theories.
What, though, would the Soviets have expected to gain from the assassination of Kennedy?
As it was, they gained no apparent advantage whatsoever.
If the Soviets are to be ascribed a role in JFK's assassination, they must also be ascribed a motive...
And isn't it curious that still after all this time we do not have diplomatic relations with Cuber...
I believe Officer Tipit was to kill Oswald—but Oswald caught on and killed him first—The Jack Ruby gambit was a quickly put together back up plan that had help from inside the police station.
even Andrew Breitbart......and the Rolling stone guy, Hastings IIRC.....is everything just a coincidence?....
"is everything just a coincidence"
As Tony Hillerman's detective Che would say "There are no coincidences".
Oswald did it. Alone...... With not a scintilla of outside or inside help. None, nada, zilch, zero, NOTHING!
Case closed, for the last 50 years now.
I am Spartacus!
As if the Kennedy's were any better than LBJ when it came to illegal activity. Camelot it was not, more like a bunch of TRASH!
No way... it was the Cigarette Smoking Man!
I'm not quite old enough to remember that day, so I hope one of you Freepers that do remember can explain something to me...
For my entire life I've heard the cliche repeated ad nauseum by the msm that says that "America lost it's innocence when JFK was assassinated."
Can any of you out there explain to me just what the -ell that means?
The left can never permit a consensus of opinion to form that JFK was killed by one of their own.
I saw you do it.
One of the Soviet's motives was that they liked to kill people.
It means nothing. It is leftist blather just like the Camelot crap.
Awesome scene.
"And isn't it curious that still after all this time we do not have diplomatic relations with Cuber..."
In 1963 did anyone expect that fifty years later Fidel Castro would still be alive & ruling Cuba (through his commie brother)?
FWIW I think Oswald acted alone. The shots he took didn't require a Fallujah sniper's skill & he didn't have to reach out 1000 meters to kill someone. It's a matter of security. Today, the SS would routinely lock down that School Book Depository long before the motorcade arrived.
OK, conspiracy buffs: the bulletproof `Bubbletop' already existed. It was November, not July, in Dallas. Why wasn't it used on JFK's open limo?
Supposedly someone from the KGB said that they were behind the wave of conspiracy theories.
Because Kennedy himself said not to. It was a nice day and he wanted to be seen.
It rained in the morning but cleared up by noon. They didn't need the bubbletop.
November in Texas is not November in New England. Yesterday in Austin it was 80 degrees.
The high in Dallas on 11/22/63 was 71 degrees.
Real question: was the Bubbletop bulletproof, for use in inclement weather, or both? IIRC, it was fabricated for motorcade use after VP Richard Nixon's disastrous ride in Caracas in 1958.
Bubbletop was NOT bulletproof. I think I saw this on a show titled "50 questions about the JFK assassination" just last week. Bubbletop was not bulletproof so we can all draw our own conclusions as to what the effect would have been.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9murlfjujU8/TfKyTJ34QPI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/fmTeajXyds0/s1600/05.JPG So this might be what a bubbletop would like.
I liked it a lot too.
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Tupac Illuminati Killuminati – Conspiracy Theories
I've always been a fan of conspiracy theories, they make you think. Having said that, I don't subscribe wholeheartedly to any of them. I tend to court them but never take them to bed. I did a post a few months back on Rihanna's involvement with Satan and I found it interesting from a psychological point of view more than anything.
Recently I've been getting some traffic from people searching for "Tupac Illuminati", and I realised didn't know much about Tupac, his death and the conspiracy theories surrounding it; so I watched a YouTube documentary to see what the crack was. I certainly wasn't sold on the conspiracy theories, but the film and the theories within it were a lot more interesting than I'd imagined. Some people think Tupac is still alive and well and living in Cuba or New Zealand, but that seems a little far fetched to me.
What I'm going to do here is a kind of critical synopsis of the documentary I guess, except it won't be as classy as that description makes it sound.
The video I watched starts out by saying that people like Rihanna, Beyonce, Lady Gaga and Jay Z are always throwing up illuminati, triangular finger shapes for a reason: they are controlled by the Illuminati and as such they are representing their master's wishes by talking in their lyrics about sex and money, in order to keep the country's youth stupid and fame-obsessed.
The argument goes that as soon as an artist breaks from this pattern and starts talking about what's really going on in the wider world i.e. corruption, wars, capitalist control – they get snuffed and the media spotlight moves away from them, or worse.
Tupac's Political Aims
I didn't know anything about 2Pac before writing this, I mean, I knew he was a rapper that got killed, but that was it really. I never realised that he was an intelligent, well-spoken guy that talked about illegal wars and oppression. He comes across as an erudite young man, and he was young, just 25 when he died.
I also didn't know that he was planning to move into politics with MC Hammer and Snoop Dog (or Lion Dog as he's now calling himself). Me in my big white palace could find all of that amusing (I mean, could you imagine that?), but the reality is that their combined fan base of disenfranchised poor people in America could have actually made a fair difference at the polling stations. Who else are the starving, underclass, black majority going to vote for? But that's all conjecture, and the point the documentary maker is making is that the Illuminati or white elite, were scared of his oratory and sway. That's probably true.
What Do They Really Mean By Illuminati?
What I did get from this documentary is that Illuminati, as a word, is really interchangeable with the phrase "the man". The original meaning of Illuminati seems to have been watered down and the term is really taken to mean, the guys at the top with the cash.
Before his death, Tupac promised:
…before the next election…we will have our own political party.
I'm guessing the whiteys at the White House probably did get wind and probably were a little scared. Would they kill to keep control? Damn right they would. Did they kill Tupac? We'll never know. But it's not as if the CIA have got any problem with assassinating people.
Anyway, I'm literally jumping the gun, before the US government allegedly assassinated him, they are supposed to have set him up on rape charges (read 2Pac & Ayanna's account in this thread). Ayanna Jackson claimed to have been sodomized by him and his friends against her will. What took place on that fateful night we will never know. But what is true, is that forensics found no sign of forced entry (anywhere), no traces of semen etc. It may have been a set up, but we don't know who or why would anyone would have done it. Maybe Tupac's "mates" could have set him up, maybe she set him up for the money…. or, maybe he actually did it.
Whatever actually happened, Tupac went down. The conspiracy theorists posit that he was sent down on a rape charge so that when he came out no one would respect or listen to him. A lot of conspiracy theorists make arguments where they say that a certain outcome – e.g. someone was discredited, proves that some shady organisation orchestrated it. In reality, the shady organisation may have been pleased that he was discredited and it may have worked in their favour, but it certainly doesn't act as proof that they organised that discrediting.
The rape charge didn't keep him down though, on his release he was as vocal as ever. At around 11:00pm on the Las Vegas strip, on the 7th of September, 1996, after a Tyson boxing match, a Cadillac pulled up next to Tupac's BMW and six rounds were fired at Tupac.
He was hit four times in the chest, pelvis, and his right hand and thigh. One of the rounds went into Shakur's right lung and left testicle.
He died from his wounds after a week in an induced coma on the 13th September. The first police officer on the scene – Chris Carroll – tried to find out from Tupac who had shot him, Tupac looked into his eyes, and according to the officer, his final words were:
f*ck you
To add fuel to the conspiracy flames, the case of who shot Tupac has never been closed. No witnesses could be summoned and their leads all ran dry. Despite Tupac's entourage consisting of around 10 vehicles that night, no one came forward to testify. Further fuel was piled on when Yaki Kadafi (Yafu Fula), part of Tupac's band Oultawz, was shot a couple of months later.
If big government did snuff out the rising star, this is exactly what you would have expected to happen: no one would have talked. What if it was a gang based murder? It would have been the same outcome. An unsolved murder is no case for conspiracy.
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The report provides an annual measure of civic habits, much as the government measures economic behavior. These habits, including voting, volunteering and connectedness, are thought to predict and explain levels of participation in our democracy.
"Our societies are only as healthy as the social fabrics on which they rely," said David B. Smith, Executive Director of NCoC. "By examining social interaction we see that the more citizens are informed and engaged, the more they work together to address local problems."
Results show that Pennsylvanians have fallen behind in voter registration and turnout, ranking 35th among all states in voter registration rate and 39th in voter turnout. During the historic presidential election of 2008, when record numbers of voters went to the polls, Pennsylvania actually saw a drop in voter registration, voter turnout, and voter fulfillment, falling slightly behind the national average.
Voter registration -- PA: 70.1 %, National: 71%
Voter turnout -- PA: 62.4%, National: 63.6%
A bright spot for Pennsylvania came in the area of building social cohesiveness. The index shows that Pennsylvanians who are connected to families, friends, and neighbors are more likely to vote, volunteer, and participate in other civic actions. Pennsylvania ranks 20th in the nation – one of PA's highest rankings of all civic indicators – in the following categories:
• Talking to neighbors several times each week (46.9%)
• Eating dinner with family several times each week (90.4%)
Across the board, Pennsylvanians who engaged in these activities were more civically engaged. For example:
Pennsylvanians who speak regularly with their neighbors are:
• more than 25% more likely to volunteer
• more than 15% more likely to register to vote
• about 10% more likely to vote
Pennsylvanians who dine with their families are:
• fully one-third more likely to volunteer
• about 10% more likely to vote
• 25% more likely to donate to charity
"This first Pennsylvania Civic Health Index serves as a reminder of the importance of civic education and engagement, particularly as we face national challenges that impact the lives of every citizen," said Governor Edward G. Rendell. "Through the work of state leaders, institutions such as the National Constitution Center, and organizations like PennSERVE and PennCORD, I am confident that Pennsylvania will continue to build on its strengths and improve in the areas where it is falling behind."
"This report offers valuable benchmarks and solutions that can help Pennsylvania's leaders, policymakers, and citizens improve our civic life," said National Constitution Center President and CEO David Eisner. "From the decades before Independence was declared and the Constitution was signed here in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has offered America innovations in civic engagement, from public schools and libraries to debate societies and philanthropic institutions. This report challenges Pennsylvania to again lead the way in encouraging our citizens to become engaged in the critical issues facing our cities and our nation."
In 2006, the National Conference on Citizenship, in partnership with the Civic Health Index Indicators Working Group, launched "America's Civic Health Index," an annual report measuring the nation's civic trends over the last 30 years. Drawn from census data, the Civic Health Index measures 40 indicators in nine categories of civic engagement including, voting, volunteerism, philanthropy, neighbor-to-neighbor connections, political expression and religious affiliation. This year, the national report was enhanced with individual civic health indices of 13 states and four cities. The National Constitution Center was selected to analyze and disseminate the results for Pennsylvania. The report follows the September release of Civic Life in America: Key Findings on the Civic Health of the Nation, a joint venture of the NCoC and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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is there a way i can test for a specific section_name value before i query_posts? if not, i would like to request this feature be added. something like:
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Heya Michael!
This is a handy little plugin you have here and it still is working well for us on some sites running the current version of WP 3.5.2.
Is there any chance of you updating the plugin to reflect that it still is compatible with the current version?
I'm hesitant to recommend the plugin in client situations for forward compatibility reasons if you've decided to abandon it. If that's the case, no worries. I'll look for alternatives to recommend.
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ST. LOUIS -- Everybody seemed to wonder how Yasiel Puig would cope with the stress and scrutiny of postseason baseball. Would he show the proper maturity, play the game under control and respect the game's fundamentals?
As it turns out, all the pious observers of baseball decorum have had nothing to complain about. He's hitting cutoff men, generally taking acceptable routes. When he was actually getting on base, he played it safe. Self-awareness and restraint haven't been the issues.
Puig knows exactly what's going on. He just can't do anything about it.
"They have really good pitchers that are making their pitches and a catcher who knows what he's doing and, right now, they're the ones who are executing," Puig said after the Dodgers' 1-0 loss in Game 2.
The question, it turns out, strangely, is can he find a way to reignite his talent instead of tapering down his emotions? Dodgers manager Don Mattingly inadvertently dropped the perfect nickname on Puig in spring training, when he said the mercurial outfielder played like a "wild horse." The wild part hasn't been a problem in this National League Championship Series, but what happened to the horse?
The St. Louis Cardinals seem to have an endless stream of pitchers who throw 95 mph and up with reliable location and bankable secondary pitches. In other words, the Dodgers aren't entirely to blame for stumbling into this 0-2 hole in the series. But with Hanley Ramirez dealing with a painful rib injury that could keep him out for a good chunk – if not the rest – of the NLCS, and Andre Ethier also hobbled by a left ankle injury, this is a perilous time for Puig to disappear.
The most visible baseball player in the game a few months ago has been nowhere to be found in these games. Puig wore the dreaded golden sombrero Sunday, striking out in all four of his plate appearances. For the series, he is 0-for-10 with six strikeouts.
Ramirez and Puig were the twin pistons that got the Dodgers moving again in June. Puig arrived from Double-A Chattanooga and Ramirez came off the disabled list. Now, the Dodgers seem devoid of a spark, their fate again mirroring the arcs of their two powerful right-handed hitters. They have scored two runs in the first 22 innings of this series and wasted masterful performances by their two aces, Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke, who together have allowed just two runs in 14 innings while striking out 15 batters.
Let's not act as if the teams are dealing with comparable injuries. Yeah, the Cardinals are without Allen Craig and they haven't had Rafael Furcal all year, but the Dodgers lost Matt Kemp in the final game of the regular season and now they're faced with playing without Ramirez, the best hitter on the planet this season not named Miguel Cabrera.
"Every time he's in the lineup, he's probably the best guy on the field," Kershaw said, "... You can't dwell on that, but it definitely doesn't help our chances too much."
The Dodgers have bounced back before, as you might recall. They were 9 ½ games out of first place on June 21 and 12 games under .500, their manager possibly two more losses from losing his job, and they ripped off one of the most impressive streaks in baseball history, going 42-8 through late August.
It might take something equally dramatic in a smaller sample size, because their offensive depth is strained to the breaking point and the upcoming pitching matchups are far from favorable. If Ramirez isn't playing and Puig continues this miserable funk, the Dodgers can see the end from here, and it can come so suddenly in the playoffs.
In the sixth inning, facing young flamethrower Michael Wacha, Puig looked absolutely lost. He swung so hard on the first pitch, he fell down. He swung so feebly at the last pitch, his wrists never broke. He put his head down and walked back to the dugout.
"Yadier is doing a nice job as far as yo-yoing him back and forth and keeping him in the rocking chair," Mattingly said. "That's where I think we see his inexperience kind of come up, how to handle what's going on and what he's looking for. But with him, at any moment, any swing has a chance to tie a game or be a big hit."
In other words, Mattingly seemed to be saying Puig can take the team down with him, or he can change the direction this series has taken.
If not him, who? Adrian Gonzalez is a steady producer, but he was steadily compiling numbers as the Dodgers were getting off to a miserable start in April and May. Carl Crawford was a dynamic force in the NLDS, but as a leadoff hitter, he's hardly the prime candidate to rescue the offense. Without Ethier and Ramirez, the Dodgers are forced to play their two scrappy little guys, Nick Punto and Skip Schumaker, at the same time, and that's not exactly creating an intimidating look.
So, if dominance by Kershaw and Greinke wasn't enough to do it, what else will -- aside from the two players who changed everything so dramatically four months ago? You can't ask Ramirez to do it if his ribs are so sore he can't swing a bat.
"We've got enough talent on this team to do it," second baseman Mark Ellis said.
That might be true, but it certainly doesn't look that way now that the Dodgers have spent their two big arms and have seen their two big guns defused, both physically or mentally.


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Well, clearly they are not going to meet on Lush, although given the past behaviour of several televangelists, some of them are probably members. :-"
Apparently, there is a legitimate site set up by friends of Noah Pozner's family. The money is intended to be used for counselling and other services that will be needed by his family. His uncle gives information about the real site and its address here. http://www.cnn.com/video/?collection=Anderson_Cooper_360&hpt=hp_tvvideo#/video/bestoftv/2012/12/20/ac-noah-uncle-protecting-family-from-online-scammers.cnnThe real address is: http://noahpozner.org/
That's a little unfair. I'm asking legitimate questions and I'm not deflecting from the real issue. But I do want to know what happened, and more importantly, why it happened. Like most people, I was glued to the television immediately after it happened. There WERE several reports of a second shooter, a man wearing black and camouflage that was found hiding in the woods outside the school. I saw and heard it with my own eyes and ears as it was said on live TV. If the man found in the woods had nothing to do with the school shooting, someone should let us know. If he was involved in any capacity, we need to know. Silence on the issue will lead to conspiracy theories. I have watched a lot of the coverage and not heard or seen any of that. I apologize if that is indeed the case and I misunderstood.
I read LM's post.And now the conspiracy theories will begin, deflecting attention from the real issues of a violent society and culture, inadequate support and treatment for mental health issues, and inadequate regulation of and limitations on guns.
Even more amusing is that these discussions scare people into buying more guns because they're afraid they won't be able to later on. Amusing? I can't imagine the mind that could perceive anything in these events as amusing. It does give me some insight into the mind of someone who may have guns but shouldn't, given how little you value human life.
Just a question here, don't get me wrong there are some very valid points in this thread but are we now not... http://images.lushstories.com/dudealicious/01634913590238426979.jpg Dude, with respect, this is an important enough topic for there to be a full discussion. The event that opened the discussion deserves our attention.
There was apparently a spike in gun sales over the weekend, just in case there is regulation in the future. Many of these guns are purchased at gun shows, where no background checks are done. Surely even those of you who do not want regulation would agree that this loophole should be closed.
In November Americans bought more than 2 million guns. On Black Friday, the FBI reported more than 154,000 background checks for gun purchases. There are more stores selling guns in the US than McDonald's. And that does not include all of the gun shows and sales there which skip the background checks. (from ABC News)Why is this necessary?
Nice biased assessment of an opinion you don't even identify with. Let's be clear about something else, too. You don't really deserve the dialogue you asked for. Thank you, Lady X. Over and out.
if someone dies for a crime they didn't commit, I'm okay with that. Really? Even if it were a relative, friend, or your partner? You would just say oops...... So you are okay with taking an innocent life after all, despite your argument against abortion. Only in this instance it is a real, living human being. So who is illogical?
Becky, what happens when someone is wrongfully convicted? It is bad enough to spend time in prison for a crime you did not commit, but to die for it? These cases do happen. What would you do about it?
Some of the comments here remind me of a line from an old comic strip: "We have seen the enemy and he is us."The US has more than 300 million non-military weapons - almost one per every person, adult and child, in the country. Why? What civilized country lives that way? Americans can sometimes be obnoxious in their exceptionalism, the idea that they are somehow better than the rest of us in the world. This time you are an exception in the circle of civilized countries - and not in a good way.Those who worship at the shrine of the NRA would have teachers armed. Maybe they would have the students armed too. Training could start in kindergarten. Children could learn to shoot before they learn to read. By high school they could shoot AK-47s or God knows what weapon. Perhaps that could be necessary for high school graduation. Look at the world you have created. Think about it. The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You are right. People kill people. But they kill people with guns. This has to change. I am naively hopeful that this time, finally, the NRA will lose its grip on your Senators and Congressmen and that sensible regulation will follow.
While there may be no proven link between violence in the media and games and perpetrating it on others, I do think that these movies, games, and even some music desensitize people to real violence and the impact it has on real people. Carnage may seem like an extension to a game, with no sense of how it shatters lives - real blood, real injuries, real people.
I have just seen the news about the latest mass shooting in the US. While I understand that those in the country might want rifles for hunting, does anyone need an assault weapon anywhere? As I understand it they are made to kill people. Does this confirm your opinion about banning assault weapons or change your mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iZ_ZZyNGYEQThe shampoo scene in "Out of Africa".
you know that they were trying to humiliate this poor woman. You know for certain that she was supposed to be the target of this prank from the very beginning Either you have not read opposing views carefully or did not comprehend them. No one has said that this woman was deliberately targeted. The point was to make whoever answered the phone look foolish and see if they could get away with it. The prank was random in choice of victim - whoever spoke to them. So no one thinks they chose this particular nurse, but they do accuse the djs of thoughtlessness carrying this out. Period. Of course they could not predict that it would go this far, as you have argued, but that is precisely the point - that they were willfully blind in carrying out their sophomoric fun.
This article was under the one linked above. Worth reading.A victim of today's culture of casual crueltyBy BEL MOONEYOf course, no harm was intended. Of course, it was just meant to be a harmless prank. But surely there is an important lesson for us all in the very sad affair of the hoax Aussie phone call.The consequences for everybody involved – from the distressed royal couple, to the shocked and hounded Australian DJs, and most of all to the tragic nurse Jacintha Saldanha and her family – are a reminder that every thoughtless prank has a victim and that nobody can predict how a vulnerable individual will react to what somebody else thinks of as 'a bit of fun'.Cheeky, high-spirited Australian DJ Michael Christian thought it a great wheeze to try to talk to the Duchess of Cambridge's medical team on the telephone, even though he knew she had been taken into hospital suffering from acute morning sickness early in her pregnancy.The first sign of unthinking cruelty comes right there. His female co-host Mel Greig thought this would be 'awesome'. That, in turn, shows a very modern take on the word 'awe' – which correctly implies respect as well as wonder. Never mind the ethics or legality of the broadcast, there was no respect for anybody's feelings in this sorry incident; no hint of decency or basic human compassion.Now that an innocent woman is dead, her family bereaved and bewildered, and the whole world knows the story – the thoughtless joke doesn't seem funny at all, least of all to the shamed perpetrators.To me, it never was. From the moment I heard their silly, adolescent giggles and the poor nurses' polite replies, I saw the prank as another example of the casual, tacky, thoughtless cruelty that has infected popular culture like a plague – on radio, on television and increasingly on Twitter and other social media outlets.Had Jacintha Saldanha not succumbed to shame and misery (and we have no way of knowing what else was happening in her life) I would always despise the notion that it's acceptable to call a hospital to invade the privacy of any patient, let alone an expectant young mother in distress. What on Earth have we come to?Let's be very clear. The King Edward VII Hospital should have had a protocol so securely in place it would have been impossible for this to happen.The fact that Jacintha Saldanha was not a native English speaker would have made it less likely that she would pick up the hopeless accents used by Greig and Christian, but in any case there should always be a system of checks and balances, and all the more so when the patient is high-profile.It is true, also, that the two DJs – who have now gone into hiding after being subjected to a barrage of vilification just as nasty as their original stunt – couldn't possibly have predicted that their trick would lead to the death of a good woman who felt (no matter how irrationally) responsible for letting her hospital and colleagues down. Call them callow, stupid, irreverent, if you like, but they were not wicked.Yet while this tragedy was not foreseeable, it was avoidable. For surely an incident like this has been waiting to happen.The Victorians paid to gawp at people with deformities and disabilities; in our day TV turned the freak show into an even more popular form of entertainment, taking cruelty and mockery right into people's sitting rooms, whether through hidden camera shows that made the likes of Jeremy Beadle and Dom Joly into household names or in the routine humiliations meted out to (often mentally fragile) contestants on Big Brother or I'm A Celebrity.That very familiarity means that broadcasters have felt the need to be ever more sensational, to court controversy, to 'up the ante' all the time, regardless of the potential consequences.Those two DJs were willing and able to indulge in the bullying of an unsuspecting victim because exploiting the naivety of innocent victims is now the accepted dialect of light entertainment right across the world.Before you blame the crass taste of Aussie presenters, remember it was only weeks ago that ITV set up a stunt on I'm a Celebrity in which the actress Charlie Brooks was left weeping after she was denied the right to see her seven-year-old daughter for failing to win a jungle challenge, as the little girl hid behind a set door.The truth is, we have become so inured to a culture of hard-edged cleverness that it wouldn't have occurred to Mel Greig or Michael Christian to stop, to think for a moment – and feel shamed – any more than it occurred to ITV that it was wrong to exploit a seven-year-old's distress to chase ratings. At least Charlie Brooks must have signed a consent form at some stage. Not so Jacintha Saldanha. Why then did the radio station's lawyers allow the tapes to be broadcast? For the very same reason that the BBC turned a blind eye to the crude phone call made by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to Andrew Sachs, sniggering about his granddaughter's sex life. Because no single executive had the taste, judgment or maturity to realise that this was totally unacceptable behaviour. Nobody, from the immature broadcasters to the worldly men and women in charge, had the wisdom or decency to say: 'Hang on, this isn't funny, it's wrong.'Thus casual cruelty is dished up as prime-time entertainment with as much callous indifference as the Romans showed to the Christians and lions fighting to the death in their arenas.What's more, it's getting worse, as new media challenges the old for an audience. Sometimes Twitter seems as brutal as a bearpit, as trolls seek out their prey to persecute. And unlike the mainstream media, the internet has given bullies the cloak of anonymity to hide behind.No wonder Michael Christian and Mel Greig rushed in to pull a stunt which actually resulted in a vulnerable woman, hitherto proud of her professional standards, being the brunt of hilarity all around the world. In a crowded market, they wanted to stand out; to make a name for themselves. And oh, how they bragged about their little coup over the ensuing days, until horror intruded on their glee.The public must take its share of blame too. For how many of those people who have tweeted their outrage, accusing the pair of having 'blood on their hands' (and worse) had a good laugh when they first heard the ludicrous faux-Brit accents?It is simply not enough to shrug the shoulders and say: 'Well, no one could have seen it ending in suicide.'The Law of Unintended Consequences is known to sociologists and economists and used as a warning that (to quote one definition) 'an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes'. Yes, indeed.In this dreadful story the 'intervention' was just another example of the shameless rush to sensationalism that has trivialised modern broadcasting in all its forms – that amoral belief that 'anything goes' which disguises the humiliation of others as light-hearted fun.The 'complex system' is the human personality, which is always unpredictable, always vulnerable. And the terrible 'undesirable outcome' was the unnecessary death of an innocent woman, who would almost certainly be alive today if those who should have known better had shown restraint.
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Of course we would, but that's not what happened. Why on earth would anyone give equal sympathy to a mass-murderer and a suicidal person who, regardless of the specific reasons, felt the walls closing in on her and saw no path along which to move forward?And for those that correctly point out the lack of proof that these DJs actually caused her suicide, I give due credit. It's the sidebar opinions about suicide in general that make me shake my head. Like many subjects, I gather that the majority of the disagreement here has to do with tone and attitude towards depression and suicide, not the plight of these DJs and this lady. You are right in that there are two separate issues here: mental illness and the ethics of humiliating people for entertainment. However, the disagreement is about both. It is interesting that those who have little sympathy for people who have mental health issues and commit suicide have displayed a lot of sympathy for the djs who were responsible for this stupid prank. An interesting hierarchy of values, but not mine.As I have said before, a joke happens when everybody laughs.Incidentally, I understand that the djs have given an interview on Australian television talking about heartbroken they feel (but not apologizing). It seems that their program has been cancelled, they have been fired, and no more such pranks will be allowed on any station owned by their employer.
FYI: By releasing confidential patient information and forwarding the call, the Royal Nurse violated HIPPA. HIPPA requires hospitals and health care providers to maintain absolute confidentiality of their patients' protected health information; it is Health care 101. Her mistake could have had severe penalties including fines, criminal sentencing, and disciplinary action by licensing boards and employers. This was a high profile situation and her young career as a nurse (4 years) could have very well been over. In my humble opinion, that mistake mirrored with world-wide public humiliation could have easily taken her over the edge. Thank you. That was precisely my point and is the same worldwide. Patient confidentiality is sacrosanct and reason to lose a professional licence if breached. However, there is no point trying explain this any more to those who think it was fun. They are the target audience for this.
I would.
With respect, please reread what DD, Elit, WMM and I wrote. Not knowing what is going on in someone's life is precisely why this was so bad. Their intentions were not to make the hospital staff look good. On the contrary, they wanted to humiliate, embarass, and ridicule, showing whoever answered their call to be a gullible fool. What is funny about that? There are people who enjoy constant attention and imagine that everything that happens to them is of interest to others. Most people are not like that. Their problems and heartache are their own. They go to work every day and do their best, holding on by a thread to normalcy. The djs cut that thread for this woman.Even if this had not happened, what the djs did would have jeopardized the jobs of the people they pranked. Never mind the breach of privacy they attempted. Of course they had no idea it would end like this, but they did not think about the consequences, even taking the suicide out of the equation. I just hope that their suspension is without pay.
This wasn't a bully/victim scenario, as prinicpessa seems to think. It was a joke that went sour. A joke happens when everyone is laughing. Not this time, even before the suicide. It was clearly public embarassment for the entertainment of others.And btw your driving analogy is not an analogy at all.I would like to see the reactions of people who think this is okay if they were the object of some prank that went viral making them look stupid or ridiculous. I suspect that although some of you might like the attention, you would not like this kind of attention very much. Perhaps you can only imagine yourselves as the perpetrators laughing and saying it was all in fun and telling your victims to lighten up. Some empathy and emotional intelligence is required to be a decent human being.
I heard it. All the poor woman did was answer the phone and pass the call to the nurses' station where Kate was being cared for. If anyone really made a mistake, it was the nurse who then answered and revealed information about Kate to the djs.
I think that humiliating people publicly is not entertainment. I do not like pranks because someone is always hurt. This applies to the idiots who did this. This nurse may well have had other issues, but that does not vitiate their part in what happened to her if, as it seems, they brought it to a critical mass and caused her to do this. It is not the easy way out. It is indicative of deep problems and desperation. How is it moral to push someone over the edge? Of course, you don't know that a stranger is in that state, which is precisely the reason you should not do it.The only people who may be fair game are public figures, as when Sarah Palin was contacted by djs in the 2008 election, exposing her ignorance and stupidity in believing that the President of France (if I remember correctly) was calling to talk to her. Ignorance, hypocrisy, and pomposity in public figures may be an appropriate target. Making an ordinary person look foolish or gullible is not. The fact that so many people would find this amusing (before the suicide) shows a dumbing down and lack of empathy in society in general.What might have been an error in judgement which might have been understood by her employer was blown up into a public humiliation worldwide. That is why it matters that the djs did this. That is why it is unforgivable. Whether she was predisposed to do this is not the issue.Pranks like filling someone's office from floor to ceiling with balloons while they are out to celebrate a milestone birthday are not hurtful. Anything that embarasses, hurts, or humiliates is not a prank. It is bullying. That should not have entertainment value.


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