Should Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get the death penalty? Should Aurora’s James Holmes or Charleston’s Dylann Roof? How about American sniper Chris Kyle or the Apache gunship assholes exposed by Wikileaks in “Collateral Murder”? Videos abound of US airstrikes and drone strikes far more deadly and indiscriminate than the Boston Marathon Bombing. I don’t agree with capital punishment, as deterrent or justice, but if cultural arbiters want to cry for the blood of terrorists there are a lot of offenders in line before 21-year-old Tsarnaev. I say let he who has bombed fewer innocent people cast the first stone.
Not My Tribe
The Myth of Middle Ground
For a long while, it was popular politician speak; “Better to fight them over there, than to fight them over here”. And so now we have the drone program, killing them over there ( “The Terrorist”) while some powerful corporations put a lot of money in the bank over here.
The brown skinned boy over there is called a “Terrorist”, While the white skinned boy over here is called a killer. From Charlie Starkweather in 1957 to Dylann Roof in 2015 the list is far too great to publish here.
The odds of you being killed by a white skinned boy over here are about 100% greater, then you will be killed by the brown skinned boy over there. In case you missed it; we have never used a drone on the white skinned boys here. We have other methods for them, it’s called the death penalty; billed as the humane way to kill something.
All the while, the Corporations and the NRA laugh themselves silly on the way to the bank. The NRA supplies the guns for the white skinned boy over here, while the American Corporations supplies the drones for the brown skinned boy over there.