rssThe Banality of Evil
Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 10:03 am
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Wired has ten unseen Abu Ghraib photos. Don’t click on them if you’re not prepared to be punched in the stomach. I actually exclaimed when I saw the first one — Mike Lillis asked me if I was OK — so, really, think before you click. Extremely NSFW.
Two things we learn: One, the thumbs-up at beaten prisoners was not just Lynddie England. Pic #2 is another soldier giving the thumbs up over a dead man. Pick #7 is perhaps the most horrifying of all: it zooms out from the infamous wired-box prisoner to show a nearby Charles Graner inspecting his fingernails.
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Comment posted February 28, 2008 @ 1:50 pm
I didn’t see that, Regis. I’ll reinspect & change the post as necessary. Thanks for the eagle eye.
Comment posted February 28, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
In picture #7, Graner appears to be preparing his camera. Just as evil, maybe worse.
Comment posted February 28, 2008 @ 11:16 am
banality- noun (pl. -ties) ORIGIN mid 18th cent.(originally relating to feudal service in the sense [compulsory,] hence [common to all]
banal- adjective. so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
One can and should lay the banal evil that is Abu Ghraib at the feet of Bob Gates. Oh yeah! One can and should lay the banality of Bob Gates at the feet of George ‘monster’ Bush. Oh yeah! Bobby the Inquisitor is in feudal service to his ‘liege lord’ and what a moral monstrosity that old ‘liege lord’ is in very real-time fact. Oh yeah! Therefore and by extension, ‘we the people’ are morally implicated in the Bush war crimes and that is comprehensively sad and IMMORAL! "Out damn spot!" Oh yeah, it ain’t gonna happen for a long many years to come. We The People Are Morally Doomed! Oh HELL yeah!
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