The public doesn't need to see these photos

[Theben]

ONly in your case.

EDIT: To Colon.


Hell, I dont remember any Slaughtermeyer. Did you change your name?

[Agathon]

Everything that Murdoch bastard touches turns to ****.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Theben
Hell, I dont remember any Slaughtermeyer. Did you change your name?

I never changed my forum name in this forum. I just stopped posting and forgot about this forum many years ago after I lost interest in CivII.

[Theben]

So why did you return? Not that I'm complaining, but were you gone for 6 years?

[Agathon]

He could sell that nick.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Theben
So why did you return? Not that I'm complaining, but were you gone for 6 years?

I wanted to send an email to Lancer to tell him that I was going to the Philippines, but his email address that I had was no longer valid. (I had already met him in Bohol on a previous trip). So I did a google search and found that he still posted here.

I got the Slaughtermeyer nick from the Monty Python sketch about the joke that won WW2.

[Theben]

Oh yeah? I visited him last year in Bohol. Very nice.

He'll be back online soon I'm sure. He & Dolores are back in Oregon.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by DanS
What kind of freak wants to see rape photos, Ludd?

The kind of freak who wants to know what happened, but is caught between two equally prevalent arguments - one claiming rape, and the other denying it?

[MrFun]

Re: The public doesn't need to see these photos

Originally posted by DanS
I wonder what purpose will be served by publishing further Abu Ghraib abuse photos. We wouldn't think of publishing murder photos or video. We wouldn't think of publishing rape photos or video. Indeed, we try to avoid publishing explicit war photos and video. So what's the use of publishing and publicizing them in this case?

I don't want to see these photos and feel like they're being forced on me by a pressure group seeking to discredit the military (the ACLU). Rumsfeld's account of them are detailed enough for my account and in any event the text references are sufficient to know what happened. It's going to be weeks of this crap -- every time I turn on the TV or walk down the street and see it on the front pages of the newspapers.

The same reason that photos of lynched blacks are published by historians today and that photos of Nazi concentration camp mass graves are published -- so people can be shocked into realizing the horror of inhumane acts.

What you do NOT know can hurt you.

[Theben]

BUMPed for Lancer, as he's online.

[Ted Striker]

Let the People Know the Facts and the Country Will Be Saved. - Abraham Lincoln

[Imran Siddiqui]

Btw, may I add... I applaud this judge and the ACLU for this. To pretend that it was just a few pranks and quickly forgotten would be a horrible thing. We must realize how horrible this actually was. When you have people saying fraternity hazing is worse (as happened on this forum) and saying it ain't that bad, we need to do whatever we can to have them fully grasp the crap we committed.

Furthermore, why doesn't the ACLU have the right to this? The Freedom of Information Act allows release of information such as this. There is no national security reason to keep it underwraps or anything.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
The kind of freak who wants to know what happened, but is caught between two equally prevalent arguments - one claiming rape, and the other denying it?

Wouldn't said freak rather ask somone else who had seen the photos?

[Imran Siddiqui]

What if you aren't sure if the person who has seen the photos (ie, the government) is truthful?

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Btw, may I add... I applaud this judge and the ACLU for this. To pretend that it was just a few pranks and quickly forgotten would be a horrible thing. We must realize how horrible this actually was. When you have people saying fraternity hazing is worse (as happened on this forum) and saying it ain't that bad, we need to do whatever we can to have them fully grasp the crap we committed.

Furthermore, why doesn't the ACLU have the right to this? The Freedom of Information Act allows release of information such as this. There is no national security reason to keep it underwraps or anything.

Well done Siddiqui.