Obomber describes the Aurora, CO killings of 12 theater goers an “evil act.”
US President Barack Obama described the July shootings in a Colorado theater that claimed 12 lives as an “act of evil”.
At the same time, Obomber has assumed a moral high ground responsibility in ordering the murders of hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings who live in their homes and communities in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Libya (and who knows where else) using his arsenal of 7,000 drones, fighter bombers, and dozens of Special Forces Teams with no public oversight or involvement whatsoever. Policy is to take no prisoners alive. Policy assumes the US has legal and moral authority to choose unilaterally and secretly to bomb humans from the air, and shoot them with ground forces, anyplace in the world at any time it so chooses.
Is it possible to organize human occupations by US citizens at many locations around the country making the lawless US unable to govern? Is it? Or do we just accept our complicity, with regrets? Is it possible to withdraw our support from the system by contracting into thousands of bioregionally sufficient communities? Or do we just continue consuming in our drunken orgy of comfort and convenience, even as we know it is destroying the Planet?
Are we really this stupid, this cowardly, this immoral?
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clearly, the person who carried out this horrific act in aurora was messed up. things like this don’t just happen out of the blue. the warning signs were there, but were not heeded.
it’s so sad and tragic for all those involved, including the gunman. he is a victim too. a victim of a culture where so many of its citizens can easily turn a blind eye to the suffering of another, as long as those affected are not part of “us”. a victim of a society where killing is an accepted method for acquiring what we want or for settling disputes. our history is laden with the dead recipients of our greedy violence, thoughtless massacre, and callous genocide.
this person did not receive the help he so desperately needed and now it’s too late. who will help us? the warning signs are all around that we cannot continue with an economic and social system that permits so many to suffer and die so that a few can reap the benefits; or that allows the very chemical makeup of our atmosphere to be altered to the point where it is now becoming detrimental to life as we know it; or whose very existence requires us to keep buying, keep consuming, keep creating more waste, in order to feed this ridiculous notion of linear unlimited growth on a finite world.
we ignore the warning signs at our own peril. how many more have to needlessly suffer and die before we realize there’s a better way to exist here?