So, obviously some people think that the Nick Berg decapitation video is a fake.
Here are some of the questions some raised about the video:
- The timing of the video’s release – guaranteed to divert attention from the outrage over US abuse of Iraqis.
- Why Nick Berg was wearing an orange jumpsuit
Oh, and just to end this seemingly endless argument, all I have to say is this:
Terrorists are not people like you and me. They don’t have the Privelege of the easy life like we do where they can just go and get a proper education (well, I woudln’t go as far to call our education “proper”, but it’ll have to do here) nor do they have the resources to see and understand that not All Americans are evil and rich and that in fact many of us care for their perils tremendously. Terrorists are merely impoverished people brainwashed by Extremist Islamic priests and leaders, and with promises of a better life for them and their family, along with 1-sided propaganda that shows the US as trying to destory their culture and people (well…we ARE trying to destroy their culture!), it is easily justifiable by them to go out and commit these acts of murder and revenge.
Who I CAN’T figure out is the ones in charge. These man ARE rich and ARE evil, and DO have the resources and education to understand exactly what they’re doing….Maybe they’re just plain evil (like Hitler!), maybe they just like to hold a grudge (We’re allies with Russia now), or maybe they’re just trying to make a name for themselves and to make money, and all of this “Holy War” bullshit is just a ploy to rake in all the money and power that they can….We may never know this, but I can assure you that a terrorists looks at an American civilian NO DIFFERENTLY than an American soldier, so maybe that answers the controversy of “If they wanted revenge, they ‘Should’ have gone after military personell”, and it might also maybe answer the question of “Why should we question the government”
Oooh, and also, I watched the Nick Berg tape…I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but I could TELL that Nick Berg looked digitally inserted into that clip! I never thought that this would have been a likely occurance though, until my suspicions were reinforced by more concrete evidence like the changes in time and clothing, along with the clothing changes, etc. It WAS edited, there should be no doubt…but what exactly WAS edited, and why? What aren’t they showing us? I know for a fact that the news agencies don’t look at the authenticity of Arab tapes (mostly because they can’t speak the language), so when they get one they don’t look too far into it (like the fake protests showing Palestinians CELEBRATING 9/11…that seems awfully familiar to this now that I think about it…News Organizations recieve tapes from the Middle East and it’s usually not the entire footage and it’s usually edited to create a more “desired” effect….hmm, I may have to look into this more than I anticipated!)
I will not watch the video. It is disrespectful to the wishes of the Berg family, who did not wish the details of their son’s death to become public. I also find it curious that the U.S. government, who was starkly against airing the execution video of soldiers ambushed in Nasiriyah in April 2003, has done little to prevent the airing of Berg’s execution. Whether the video is authentic or not, there is a family suffering now as there were families suffering then. What has changed the government’s thoughts on honoring the Berg family’s dead?
I just watched the video.
Most of it was quite boring (The reading of the statement).
Towards the end, when it gets more interesting, it seems to have been edited and/or digitally altered (Screams start too early; Some seconds missing before head is being lifted).
Also, there was very little blood, and it is strange that the victim does not put up any kind of resistance or fight.
All in all, it could be a fake, but you really can’t tell from the poor quality of it.
Mr Fujimoto? Who is him js? I guess u where trying to say Fujimori?, oh by the way he is was president of Peru, wich is a country different from Chile if u didn
was president of peru ^^
Well i think the video is fake
that
The Coalition illegally invaded a country, and killed some 11,000 of its civilians and 50,000 of its soldiers, who were innocent in that all they did was to protect their country against an illegal invasion based solely upon lies.
Oh yeah, and where beheading is the lawful penalty for many offences.
If anyone dies during an illegal act, it is counted as a murder committed by any of the perpetrators. Any foreigner in Iraq at the behest of the Coalition is a conspirator with the Coalition. Any conspirator is liable for the acts of any other conspirator. Thus, all foreigners associated with the Coalition are guilty of murder. For this reason, the US has sought that the UN exempt anyone associated with the US, from their being charged with having committed war crimes in Iraq, and has actually imposed this rule on the new, supposedly sovereign Iraqi government.
Nonetheless, many Iraqis, having had innocent family members and friends wrongfully blown to bits, must view the beheadings as the lawful consequence of the beheadeds’ actions.
There is genuine tyranny occurring today in the US, with the White House eviscerating the US Constitution and all manner of Civil Rights. Should any group decide to invade the US to depose the government and “liberate” the US people, they might soon find themselves strapped down alive and actually fried to death in an electric chair, or strapped down alive and gassed to death using the Geneva Convention forbidden hydrogen cyanide in a gas chamber. Either US method has to be execruiating compared to Iraq’s method of near instantaneous beheading.
So exactly what part about your going into another country and finding yourself subject to strange penalties do the war apologists not understand?