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Six people shot and five killed. He held the gun just the way he saw his favorite movie star…that’s how he held it the first time too. The suspect had done this before…he probably enjoyed the complete control he had over his victims or maybe he didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing. He had killed before, in cold blood, shooting a man several times in the back, as he was running away, because the man was interested in his girlfriend. There was no real threat, no justification for the killing of that man, only the murderer’s sense of losing control. He showed that killing was his only answer to redirect the fear inside of him. The fear that, like a parasitic worm, comes from some strange place inside of the host to feed off of your essence. Guns are pretty awesome though, right? They sure do look great on TV. BOOM!!! The sound of the gun going off probably excited him. The adrenalin rush…the power, the feeling of being the boss, the superstar, or the untouchable. The fantasy world. No doubt, society gave up on him long ago when his childhood was marked by domestic violence, poverty, racism, gang violence, and his neighborhood went through the crack epidemic, and the TV programs, movies, and, even cartoons were super-concentrated with violence. But, it still takes the conscience of one person to pull a gun’s trigger with the purpose of taking a human beings life. This man, the murderer, like so many other unfortunate young men in the same social and racial situations became empowered by the gun, and in doing so bought stock into the collective cowardice of the gun, hiding behind violence, using his gun as a scare tactic, because he quickly learns that no one disagrees with the man holding the gun. No One!!! This recreant man, preyed on the weak and submissive people in his life with his gun, the extension of his manhood, in order to exercise fear in his victims. His history of violence was hidden, all too well, behind well written but empty rhetoric in letters, asking for judicial release from prison for the crime of manslaughter. Who do you think you are? You killed a guy, and in the mantra of the repeat offender, slid back into your old ways. He realizes how weak he is without the gun and, honestly, can’t replace that feeling of dominance with anything else.
He shot them all in the head…one by one….and then took his own life a day later as the walls were closing in on him. In a show of violent bloodlust, the 200 or so people that had gathered outside the house cheered as his lifeless body was carted off. We cheered for violence…we cheered for death. Just who do we think we are? Celebrating Death? What an embarrassing moment…
Turn that death cheer into action by supporting non-violence for:
- Deon Primm 2
- Davion Primm 2
- Destanee Woods 5
- Rose Stevens 25
- Lechea Crawford 30
To most, these are just names from another sad story that will be forgotten with the rest of the unfortunate victims of violent crime. There is, however, a glimmer of that west side, blue-collar hope that we can look at this tragedy with a renewed sense of community value that can rebuild some of our city’s most decrepit neighborhoods and restore some pride to the people. We have to want that though, and we all have to work together, house by house, street by street , neighborhood by neighborhood, and city by city to resist violence and the cancerous effect it has on our dying cities, especially here in Cleveland, Ohio…the most suspect of cities
Of course, we, as neighbors and friends have some tough choices to make that will determine our success in making a great shift in local consciousness . This is the controversial part of the essay, the truth, that is truly important, but the most difficult to swallow. As a people, we need to turn off the television and gather our news from reliable and unbiased sources.
“Media violence may be most influential in modeling the use of deadly force as the primary, if not the only, way to solve problems and resolve interpersonal conflict.” Elizabeth Thoman, founder of the Center for Media Literacy.
This is no conspiracy theory. Mark my words: You are being desensitized by a culture of greed and violence. It is lurking in the shadows of our cities, sucking the lifeblood out of us. If that is not an option for you, than I implore you to sit and watch your favorite shows but try to take notes on all of the commercials that you are exposed to during a TV session and do research on the companies’ background in order to truly find out who and what you are supporting by buying those brands and exactly whose pockets that money lines in Congress. Sound like too much work? Well, its not an easy job to be a conscious being who is so accustomed to a culture of money worship (with no backing by gold or silver…thanks Fed) and a manufacturing economy that polluted to high heaven but kept that bank borrowed roof over your head
This is a story with many complex, mind altering concepts. Stay informed without that television and broadcast your own message of mental sovereignty to these billionaire mind manipulators. The choice to wake up has to be made immidiately. To many killings and too many young minds are far too seensitive to the repetitive material they are witness to on television channels…for hours at a time. Suspect City is focused on shining light on ways we can better our collective self, especially here in my home, beautiful, tight-knit Cleveland, Ohio.
Media Resources:
http://medialit.org/
http://nationaltelemediacouncil.org/index.html/
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Remove from Reality
“At first glance, these benefits of military robots sound sensible. But they fall apart upon examination.
Armed robots will be far from cost effective. Until these machines are given greater autonomy — which is currently a distant goal — the human soldier will not be taken out of the loop. And because each operator can now handle only one robot, the number of soldiers on the Pentagon’s payroll will not be slashed anytime soon. More realistically, SWORDS should best be viewed as an additional, expensive remote-controlled weapons system at the military’s disposal.
A different perspective is gained when the price of the robot is compared with the low-tech, low-cost weaponry that U.S. forces face on a daily basis in Iraq.
“You don’t want your defenses to be so expensive that they’ll bankrupt you,” says Sharon Weinberger, a reporter for Wired’s Danger Room blog. “If it costs us $100,000 to defeat a $500 roadside bomb, that doesn’t sound like such a good strategy — as pretty as it may look on YouTube and in press releases.”
The claim that robots would be more ethical than humans similarly runs contrary to both evidence and basic common sense.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman writes in his 1996 book On Killing that despite the portrayal in our popular culture of violence being easy, “There is within most men an intense resistance to killing their fellow man. A resistance so strong that, in many circumstances, soldiers on the battlefield will die before they can overcome it.”
One of the most effective solutions to this quandary, the military has discovered, is to introduce distance into the equation. Studies show that the farther the would-be killer is from the victim, the easier it is to pull the trigger. Death and suffering become more sanitized — the humanity of the enemy can be more easily denied. By giving the Army and Marines the capability to kill from greater distances, armed robots will make it easier for soldiers to take life without troubling their consciences.
The Rev. G. Simon Harak, an ethicist and the director of the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking, says, “Effectively, what these remote control robots are doing is removing people farther and farther from the consequences of their actions.”
Moreover, the similarity that the robots have to the life-like video games that young people grow up playing will blur reality further.
“If guys in the field already have difficulties distinguishing between civilians and combatants,” Harak asks, “what about when they are looking through a video screen?”
Rather than being a cause for concern, however, Maj. Michael Pottratz at the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center in Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., says in an e-mail that developers are in the process of making the control unit for the SWORDS more like a “Game Boy type controller.”
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1. Dummy up. If it’s not reported, if it’s not news, it didn’t happen.
2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the “how dare you?” gambit.
3. Characterize the charges as “rumors” or, better yet, “wild rumors.” If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to learn about the suspicious facts, it can only be through “rumors.”
4. Knock down straw men. Deal only with the weakest aspect of the weakest charges. Even better, create your own straw men. Make up wild rumors and give them lead play when you appear to debunk all the charges, real and fanciful alike.
5. Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,” “ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” You must then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you have thus maligned.
6. Impugn motives. Attempt to marginalize the critics by suggesting strongly that they are not really interested in the truth but are simply pursuing a partisan political agenda or are out to make money.
7. Invoke authority. Here the controlled press and the sham opposition can be very useful.
8. Dismiss the charges as “old news.”
9. Come half-clean. This is also known as “confession and avoidance” or “taking the limited hang-out route.” This way, you create the impression of candor and honesty while you admit only to relatively harmless, less-than-criminal “mistakes.” This stratagem often requires the embrace of a fall-back position quite different from the one originally taken.
10. Characterize the crimes as impossibly complex and the truth as ultimately unknowable.
11. Reason backward, using the deductive method with a vengeance. With thoroughly rigorous deduction, troublesome evidence is irrelevant. For example: We have a completely free press. If they know of evidence that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) had prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing they would have reported it. They haven’t reported it, so there was no prior knowledge by the BATF. Another variation on this theme involves the likelihood of a conspiracy leaker and a press that would report it.
12. Require the skeptics to solve the crime completely.
13. Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or reporting a distraction.
