2005-04-30
ABU GRAHIB
Yeah, yeah, I'm stereotyping | Actually, the "trailer park" comment was a reference to Abu Grahib cover girl Lynndie England, who [by some accounts] was from a "mobile home park" | Incidentially, I wasn't the only one in blogland to make this comparison | Some were more detailed [and presumably more serious] than I, Dooney's Cafe being perhaps the most erudite, making comparisons between Abu Grahib torturers to the characters in Deliverance | Human Rights Watch has a philosophical timeline on how we got to that point | Mark Danner provides what he calls "the Hidden Story" |
Meanwhile the US Army exonerates the top brass [I suppose they were shocked ...shocked!!! about this ever happening (yeah, right!)] while AlterNet notes the frame of mind characteristic of line soldiers at the Iraqi prison commonplace around the world... so why should foreign agents have all the fun, right? | CommonDreams thinks it's just more of Dubya's frat brat hi-jinks | No matter, all of it was wrong, no matter the motivation or the source social strata of who started it |
Time shall tell...it really shall | Be patient my fellow humans, perhaps the best is yet to come |
It's been a whole year!
Not that we've forgotten or anything, more pictures of trailer park residents having fun
Not that we've forgotten or anything, more pictures of trailer park residents having fun
Yeah, yeah, I'm stereotyping | Actually, the "trailer park" comment was a reference to Abu Grahib cover girl Lynndie England, who [by some accounts] was from a "mobile home park" | Incidentially, I wasn't the only one in blogland to make this comparison | Some were more detailed [and presumably more serious] than I, Dooney's Cafe being perhaps the most erudite, making comparisons between Abu Grahib torturers to the characters in Deliverance | Human Rights Watch has a philosophical timeline on how we got to that point | Mark Danner provides what he calls "the Hidden Story" |
Meanwhile the US Army exonerates the top brass [I suppose they were shocked ...shocked!!! about this ever happening (yeah, right!)] while AlterNet notes the frame of mind characteristic of line soldiers at the Iraqi prison commonplace around the world... so why should foreign agents have all the fun, right? | CommonDreams thinks it's just more of Dubya's frat brat hi-jinks | No matter, all of it was wrong, no matter the motivation or the source social strata of who started it |
Time shall tell...it really shall | Be patient my fellow humans, perhaps the best is yet to come |
CLARIFICATION: A reader asked "...I ...wondered why the put down of "trailer park residents", who are often low-income disenfranchised ...individuals for whom trailer park living is better than being homeless... That ...implication that prisoner abuse is what we might find as an activity of trailer park residents..." | The writer noted about having grown up poor and being aware of "insensitive" remarks about the poor | For what it's worth, I lived in trailer parks myself, first during the tender ages from 3 to 5 [when we had a outdoor chemical toilet, not indoor plumbing] and in my early twenties, where our trailer commanded a view of a beautiful privately owned golf course park residents were not allowed to use |
In case anyone else has similar misgivings, I recommend they take time to study my site more carefully and read the snide remark in context of the whole site | ....Okay, okay, I know. I'll lighten up now |
¶ 01:16 In case anyone else has similar misgivings, I recommend they take time to study my site more carefully and read the snide remark in context of the whole site | ....Okay, okay, I know. I'll lighten up now |
