CNN is 'embedding' with "insurgents" in an effort to ... well, I'm not sure what their thinking is. CNN says they're trying to report the news. There's a revelation.
According to a foxnews article, CNN says:
... the decision to air the insurgents'video was"a difficult one, but for a news organization, the right one. Our responsibility is to report the news."Isn't this the same television news-gathering organization which chose to suppress news of Iraqi atrocities under Sadaam Insane, because they wanted to protect their indiginous staff from reprisals?
Am I the only one who sees at least two levels of hypocracy here?
And in Hawkins, Tennessee, a bailiff (deputy sheriff) 'shot' an inmate with what appears to be an Airsoft pistol.
The powers-that-be canned his ass.
Why? Was anybody hurt? Was the guy who got 'shot' disconforted, discommoded, or disrespected?
Perhaps disconcerted, but that's about it.
Hawkins County Sheriff Roger Christian ...
... characterized the shooting as a horseplay incident involving what is basically a toy pistol, but he said it crossed the boundaries of professionalism that he has established for his staff.The deputy should have lined up every inmate in the jail, plunked them all with his plastic pellet-shooter, and said "That's for nothing. Now, try something!"
Okay, maybe it would have hurt their feelings. I wonder what these people did to put themselves in jail in the first place.
And ....
according to Reuters, more victim remains have been found at the 9/11 (Twin Towers) atrocity site.
Good.
More 'closure' for the victim families, evidence that NYC Public Services people are serious about accounting for all of the victims.
Right?
Wrong.
Some Victim Families protested that NYC hasn't done enough. The insinuation is that this is part of a cover-up for an imperfect search for remains.
"It had very little to do with the families," said Monica Gabrielle, who has no identified remains of her husband, Richard. "This is another spin _ it's a diversion away from the issue, which is that management failed, not the workers. And management needs to be held accountable."
Uh huh.
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have wanted to be part of the effort to find and identify body parts at the site. My understanding is that most of the search team members were volunteers. To me, this means that they didn't HAVE to risk their health and their life seaching through the debris for body parts; they did it because they realized it was a nasty job that someone had to do, so they did it.
The cited victim-survivor lady places the blame on 'management'.
I'll be damned if I can figure how ANYONE could have 'managed' this kind of search, and I think it reflects well on the NYC 'management' that they supported the searchers for years during the attempt to clean up the site.
NYC mayor Bloomberg admits that the search was driven by the need to identify victims:
"Were we under time pressure? Absolutely," Bloomberg said Tuesday. "I don't know any family member that didn't want to find out whatever they could about the loved one that they lost. And we did it as fast as we could, consistent with safety and completeness."
Do the families of the 9/11 victims adknowledge their gratitude that NYC is still trying to 'do the right thing' by announcing the discover of more victim 'body parts'?
No.
I understand the grief of the victim families, and certainly we all commisserate with them for the death of their loved ones. But I would think that a woman who still hasn't been given the small gift of receiving confirmation of the death of her husband would channel her anger in a more appropriate direction: toward the terrorists who caused this tragedy, not at the people who are doing their best to positively identify the victims, and doing so in the most transparent manner possible.
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