ttystikk
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https://wemeantwell.com/blog/2016/05/06/film-review-national-bird-looks-deeply-in-the-drone-wars-abyss/
'National Bird', a movie now in limited release, slated to come to America in the fall.
Excerpt from the article at the link above;
"The Silence
Scattered throughout the documentary are silent images from drones and aerial cameras, sweeping, hypnotic vistas taken from above both Afghan villages and American suburbs. The message could not be more clear: the tools used over there can just as easily be used over here, not merely for surveillance (as is already happening in America) but perhaps one day soon to send violence down from the sky. Violence sudden, sharp, complete and anonymous."
There is no such thing as a sanitary killing, no matter who does it, no matter what the justification. Are we as Americans ready to accept that we've become known not for freedom symbolized by bald eagles soaring free, but rather gray shadows in the sky unleashing unaccountable death by hellfire missile?
Well... Speaking personally, I'm not fucking okay with that. I'm of the very strong opinion that such tactics make the world and everyone living in it, Americans at home in their beds included, a far less safe, sane or secure place.
How can we call ourselves a moral people when we tolerate such daily atrocities to be casually committed in our names?
'National Bird', a movie now in limited release, slated to come to America in the fall.
Excerpt from the article at the link above;
"The Silence
Scattered throughout the documentary are silent images from drones and aerial cameras, sweeping, hypnotic vistas taken from above both Afghan villages and American suburbs. The message could not be more clear: the tools used over there can just as easily be used over here, not merely for surveillance (as is already happening in America) but perhaps one day soon to send violence down from the sky. Violence sudden, sharp, complete and anonymous."
There is no such thing as a sanitary killing, no matter who does it, no matter what the justification. Are we as Americans ready to accept that we've become known not for freedom symbolized by bald eagles soaring free, but rather gray shadows in the sky unleashing unaccountable death by hellfire missile?
Well... Speaking personally, I'm not fucking okay with that. I'm of the very strong opinion that such tactics make the world and everyone living in it, Americans at home in their beds included, a far less safe, sane or secure place.
How can we call ourselves a moral people when we tolerate such daily atrocities to be casually committed in our names?
