Glenn
Greenwald, civil libertarian attorney and writer, surely knows how to
get one to think about issues which few have probably thought about in
depth before. Could giving one the middle finger provoke such
profundity of thought? After one reads the article I think one will say
yes. I link it here or below.
I do not always agree with Glenn but I do love thinking on the issues he brings to the table. And by the way I LOVE the phrase he uses about the conservative journalistic sensationalist rag of stupidity, the New York Post owned by the would be journalistic monopolist Rupert Murdoch. He calls it:
"The Murdochian id of American journalism, the New York Post"
Glenn Greewald is a brilliant man even though I do not always agree with him and one to whom I could listen for hours!
A comment to him on his Tsarnaev article: When one plays over and over
and over the torment Tsarnaev's victims experienced one becomes flooded
with rage and the desire for revenge on the perpetrator. It is a
natural response and one not limited to the US.
Who has not
been to a marathon? I used to watch it from my father's store as a
little girl. To take that innocence and turn it into a political
statement and a brutal violent murderous act is to me cerebral
blasphemy.
Never did I ever have to fear watching people from
all over the world run in the most famous of marathons. There is
something beautiful in this nation irrespective of its political and
foreign policy entanglements. We are a geographically isolated nation
and irrespective of my critical political thought I still believe in an
Ann Frankian way that most people in this nation are basically good at
heart.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/23/power-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-middle-finger/
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