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from the when-you-DO-NOT-want-them-to-"think-of-the-children!" dept.
A couple of weeks ago this story was reported by The Daily Beast :
Members of an American-backed rebel group in Syria beheaded a young child in a grisly execution video.
The footage surfaced early Tuesday of members of Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and a captured child in Handarat, near Aleppo. The young boy, who appears to be prepubescent, is then executed on the back of a pickup truck.
The gruesome videotaped murder of a child drew outrage on social media and the promise of an inquiry from the group's leadership, which has previously received U.S.-made weapons and American funding. The group no longer gets such backing. But it's also renewed questions about which rebels the American government has supported in Syria's ongoing civil war.
[...] State Department spokesperson John Kirby told The Daily Beast. "We strongly condemn this type of barbaric action, no matter what group is responsible. We encourage al-Zenki to investigate the incident and expect all parties to comply with their obligations under the law of armed conflict."
[...] the group's leadership issued a statement condemning the beheading. It said it formed a committee to investigate how such a crime could have happened.
More video from the incident has been released:
The victim is seen among a group of fighters from the US and Turkish backed militant group, in the same red pick-up truck that features in their video of his execution. In a chilling exchange the jihadist militants can be seen taunting the child, taking selfies, and threatening him with 'slaughter'.
When asked about his final wish, the child asks to be shot rather than slaughtered. Their shocking answer? "Slaughter. We are even worse than ISIS"
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2016, @09:57PM
OMG, seriously? Bernie as Jesus? You didn't just drink the kool aid, you mainlined it. Get real, sister. Bernie was controlled opposition, a bait and switch. His purpose was to motivate and politicize younger voters who would not have otherwise turned out and lined up behind the Wall-Street-bought-and-paid-for, status quo, say-anything-to-get-elected DNC establishment candidate. Everyone with any political awareness at all knew from the beginning that the fix was in for Clinton and that Bernie never stood a chance. He was there just to fire up the idealistic youngsters, get them engaged for the DNC, and then conveniently step aside when the time was right and hand his base over to Clinton. And that is EXACTLY what happened. You've been played, girl. Wake up and smell the toast burning. This is textbook political gamesmanship.
Here's the thing: you don't like Trump? Meh, I'm not crazy about the guy myself. But despite what the corporate-controlled media says I also don't think he's the next Hitler, either. At worst I think he'll be a do-nothing President, at best he might actually throw an occasional monkey wrench into the corrupt Washington machine. But the one thing I do know about Trump is that he's the closest thing to a Presidential candidate truly chosen by the People than any I've seen in my not-so-short lifetime. Trump was uninvited. The Republican establishment DIDN'T WANT HIM, and yet Trump won the nomination because the People did. You can be sure the RNC is currently fixing their system to ensure that shit never happens again. I expect the Republicans will soon be taking a page out of the DNC handbook and designating superdelegates for the next nomination.
So if you want to vote for Hillary, have at it. But don't delude yourself. Bernie's espoused ideals will not live on through Hillary. You'll be voting for a consummate politician, a master manipulator, and a true political insider who is only in it for her own interests, not the interests of the People. Rather than holding your nose and voting for Hillary out of media-hyped Trump fear, why don't you vote for someone you can at least stand behind ideologically? Sure, voting third party might mean four years of an ineffectual goofball in the White House, but frankly I think four years of Hillary would be demonstrably worse for the United States.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday August 02 2016, @05:15AM
I know damn sure Clinton is going to be more of Obama, which is more of Bush II, which is, frankly, more of Clinton. But the thought of the GOP placing SCOTUS justices is nauseating. She's got my vote because I can't countenance the idea of Three More Scalias on the SCOTUS. Fuck that noise.
And, hey, you know what? Controlled opposition or not, that little plan may very well have backfired on its planners...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...