Comments for http://www.ohnoohyes.org Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.2 Comment on Mad Bombers and Americans by lesliegold http://www.ohnoohyes.org/?p=547#comment-1095 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:16:24 +0000 http://www.ohnoohyes.org/?p=547#comment-1095 So much damage, deprivation, lack of proper guidance and emotional reparation occurs in most childhoods that it is a miracle of human nature that we function at all in a somewhat healthy manner as adults. I believe anyone who does not work for the health of the majority of beings on Earth is, to varying degrees, in distortion, whether we call it irresponsibility, cruelty, stupidity, evil, craziness or pure insanity.
I had the same thoughts as you about this supposed bomber; he’s not a clear thinking psychopath, he’s just a very troubled ‘crazy’ person. It’s easier to fit him into a compartment than those like Cheney and clan, Papa Bush, Rove, even Clinton and Obama when they sell out to greed, ego, or even the larger hidden and not so hidden forces that control our country and the world. How do I understand what they do and who they are so that I keep my faith in the basic/intrinsic goodness of the individual, yet at the sane time anguish over the destructive results of their actions? We would not categorize these people as insane…but if their motives, decisions and actions are so against health and healing for the majority, do I just call the action, but not the person, insane?

]]> Comment on Mad Bombers and Americans by admin http://www.ohnoohyes.org/?p=547#comment-1094 Tue, 25 May 2010 17:27:10 +0000 http://www.ohnoohyes.org/?p=547#comment-1094 Afterthought – Blaine Harden, of the Washington Post Foreign Service, published, Tuesday, May 25, 2010, the following (in reference to the Cheonan sinking): “South Korean President Lee Myung-bak also said his government would reinforce combat capabilities and he announced trade sanctions, including a ban on all imports and exports with the North and the closure of South Korean waters to ships from the North.”

Ratcheting up tensions. Harden goes on, “Based on its history, North Korea seems likely to use these moves as further evidence of scheming by U.S.-backed forces to destabilize a small but proud state. There are almost 29,000 U.S. troops in South Korea. Heightening public awareness of that threat is likely to divert attention from the regime’s ongoing failures on the economic front,” said Myers. International tension could also prop up a murky succession process underway in North Korea.”

I admit to having a simplistic view of politics, but I don’t get it – JUST CALL NORTH KOREA’S KIM, NUTS, INSANE, OFF HIS ROCKER, AND LEAVE IT AT THAT (I know, this won’t go well with the sailor’s relatives, and national pride – another story). Also include expert testimony as to his psychotic and paranoid delusions, and sentence him, in absentia, to an asylum.

DEBATE – DON’T TAKE THE BAIT

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