Fox News: How To Whitewash an Atrocity
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2019
- This one's as bad as it gets
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Jeremy Scahill - Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army (2008 Paperback Edition)
Nisour Square Massacre from the perspective of the victims:
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More perspectives are included in Jeremy Scahill's book (ONLY in the 2008 edition though)
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"Neutralized the threat" that phrase is actually making me naseous with anger
The way they manipulate phrasing is ridiculous. I've heard the recent killing of Al-Baghdadi described as "preemptive self defence".
Phrases like that will always remind me of a cutscene where a Warhammer 40K space marine cooly lowers his gun while saying "nutralizing". Which doesn't surprise me for multiple reasons.
That's what ACTUAL "political correctness" is. There was no threat, there is not "preemptive self defence", but the politics dictate that that's what the propaganda network has to say.
@@DC-rm8ww I wonder if they will ever realise that trying to arrest supposed war criminals and put them before the courts in The Hague is a much more efficient powermove against international terrorism than randomly shooting people. Maybe slower but also not creating marytrs for the next generation of the operation. Thereby harder to propagandise against. Also public imagery of said leader that is not controlled by his propaganda network leading to discord and potentially destroying an artificially heroised image. But no, they have to prove they are so awesome they can kill anyone at any time.
@@felixleidinger1670 This is especially true with Baghdadi. Given both the cultish ideology and the decentralized structure of IS, most people agree that the assassination of Baghdadi will accomplish basically nothing. It was essentially just PR for Trump after the fallout of his betrayal of the Kurds. Funny how all righteous notions of American values go out the window as soon as you're outside the borders of the US.
And people thought vast private militaries were a thing of dystopian fiction.
Oops 😬
You have a lot to explain, buddy.
@betabenja At first I was like...what? And then I realized. Haha, good one.
Well this is the point; obfuscate what fascism is so people don't realise they're living in it. Teach children that the ends justify the means, but never tell them what the ends are.
It was founded in 1997 who doesn't think they exist who hasn't been under a rock.
The fact that the government's authority to use lethal force and participate in wars can be privatized is so deeply unsettling and terrifying. Imagine being able to directly convert capital into violence and how corporations with immense concentrations of capital can purchase the power to kill.
The use of legitimate violence and its monopoly is the cornerstone of the modern state. You can't treat that (violence) as a commodity because the law of capital accumulation will ultimately undermine the rule of law (if i can purchase enough violence to rival the state why would i obey the law) and why would I even respect private property if the violence that i can exercise overpowers the one that the government uses to guarantee your property rights.
This fits in the current US trend of commodifying civil society. Look at the privatization of the penitentiary system and "Citizens United" (the commodification of speech) look at how capitalism erodes the bases of liberal society.
"America is not a racist nation, stop acting like it is. Anyway, about those black people."
Jesus Christ. I'd say 'practice what you preach', but that would just be wishful thinking.
The American national pastime isn't baseball. The American national pastime is shouting at people "Do as I say, not as I do!"
nono, you see, they just said America's not racist, so their report on scary black people can't possibly be racist
Bro imagine if he said "anyway, about those n-"
@@scoutwaffle6125 good ending: he said ninjas
@@genoob5843 hopefuly
Update: They were all pardoned by President Trump . . .
yup came back here immediately after i heard thaf
congratulation -_-
Well fucking done Mr President. How pro life of you.
@Dr Big Nah. They'll have their time. Call it karma or God's punishment, they're usually quiet but satisfactory
@@kasrakhatir The worst thing about this is that instead of doing anything we are hoping someone else to solve the problem, hoping "god will punish these people" or "their bad karma will catch up to them".... sometimes bad people do bad things and they get rewarded for it and dont feel a lick of guilt. Sometimes good people do good things and are punished for them time after time.
I wish i believed in karma or i believed in some divine retribution and for some people i think that helps them go to sleep at night thinking everything is right with the world.
We cannot pretend this doesnt exist and go "well god will take care of this problem for us" regardless of whether god exists or not. We have to understand this is a problem and take measured steps towards making sure bad stuff does not happen again.. This is the reason why we have holocaust memorials. the reason why we must not hide our history. Some things we cant take back and some people we cannot save. and life is filled with horrible things that happen all of the time to good people.
I hope i dont come off as too angry at you because im not really mad at you, i am mad at the indecisiveness and the passiveness that phrases like "its gods will" or "karma" makes it so people are so passive in their lives and dont help people when they can. I think religion has helped many people become better people but it has also allowed for people to get indoctrinated as well as overly zealous and hateful. Also fearful of people who are different from them.
At the end of the day all we can do is try to be good to people. Do what we can to help them and what really sucks is sometimes we can try everything and still fail.
I sometimes wish there was justice in the world and in some cases there is. But everything does not happen for a reason. Sometimes people just get bad luck. And there are many cases where truly evil people exist and are not punished for their cruelty and evil deeds. But even though i feel we mustn't avoid these stories of horrible things just because it makes us feel sad (we need to know the truth, no matter how horrible it is, we must remember this, and remember them otherwise we will be doomed to repeat it.) There is also good in the world and many people do good things and can be selfless and caring and just good people.
The world is scary because at the end of the day much of what happens depends on us, and how we react to each other. We can do great things and also cruel things, and so many people are living with their heads in the sand like an ostrich.... me included much of the time, i wont lie a lot of the time i just try to do things that are fun like video games or tv shows to take my mind off of horrible shit... but we need to understand that we cannot keep escaping. There are some things we can change in this world and we need to understand that, life can be cruel and people can be cruel but we can do better.
"a gunman from the fourth Blackwater vehicle opened fire on the mother gripping her son and shot her dead"
Those brave, brave men. Why, I have no idea why _anyone_ would _possibly_ consider them cowardly murderers.
"Unsung heroes"
AMERICAN HEROES
libertarians do because government with gun-bad
mercenary with gun- good
I am typically opposed to the death penalty, but these men are monsters. I can see it being justified here.
@In truth we trust Truth be told... You're probably right. At the same time? These... I hesitate to call them men, are clearly, obviously not innocent. They have no remorse for their deeds. They shot and killed innocent people, innocent *children*, in front of their *mothers and fathers*, and treated it like it was a fun game of sorts. And then they shot the parents too, and basically laughed about it.
These individuals are cruel, compassionless murderers of the worst kind. I'll admit, I oppose the death penalty too in principle. But at times like these? I can see why others don't.
INCIDENT. Ha. It's like how japanese nationalists call the Nanking massacre the "Nanking incident".
That's also what Dan Olson from Folding Ideas calls it.
China does something similar too. They call the Tienamen Square Massacre the "June 4th incident", the "Tienamen Square incident", or the "Tienamen Square Protests"
Don't we all remember the "jew incident"? There are even some strange rocks in the middle of berlin reminding us about how they "neutralised the threat".
British Government: Walking into a football stadium and gunning down Irish civilians was part of "The Troubles".
Even "massacre" is far too generous for the inhuman atrocities committed by the imperial military in Nanking
Fox news anchor: "We are NOT a racist country, these guys don't represent us!"
That very anchor, 2 seconds later: "Look at these BLACKS doing ANTI-AMERICAN CRIMES, god they're so horrible."
Fox News should honestly get off the air one day. They are doing nothing but spread unneeded crap to people. (The old media in general sucks really)
@Brian TV
Please type using proper Grammer and sentence structure.
It is annoying since we ARE a racist country. Just because we had the Civil Rights Movement 50-60 years ago doesn't mean we magically became non-racist over night. That is deep ingrained shit that is going to take a long long time for us to ever fully put behind us.
@@Tazkar racism is def learned and deeply ingrained in our society. But we shouldnt impose too much on each other. It will continue division in our country. Build on compromise bc really the left/right dichotomy is much less existent than it used to be and mainly perpetuated by msm. If anything the ideologies have merged in America.
@@SAC_-bq4vu Yeah I'm not saying we should go around calling each other racist or anything just that we need to acknowledge our past and not pretend things magically changed because we passed a couple of laws.
"Blackwater" sounds like a stock evil corporation in a sci-fi movie
I misheard it as "Blackwood" and immediately thought of the mercenary group from Oblivion.
I think that's art imitating life, not life imitating art.
@@rhaeven I agree with you there; and that's sad to think about since the Blackwood company in-game drugged their workers which caused them to see things that weren't there...
In the TV show Jericho one of the main bad guys the heroes have to contend with is a Blackwater mercenary. I was surprised when I found out it's a real company.
The US army is not so different.
Read about the Haditha massacre where 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians were gunned down in their homes by US marines at close range. Including 7 children (One was a 1 year old). What about the Mahmudiyah gang rape and murder of 14-year old Abeer Al-Janabi by 4 US soldiers?
Americans: I don't understand why the people in the countries we are military occupying hate us
Also americans: *Allows mercenaries to commit war crimes and portrays them as misunderstood heroes*
@Jay Bee Now you understand why many Germans are tired of discussing the Nazi atrocities. ;)
@Jay Bee germans: first time?
@AquaJetEmpoleon If you call yourself a Conservative or Republican but say you don't support:
-The evil and corrupt, that you don't believe or support Fox, Neo Nazis and Nationalists, supremacists and bigots, the military industrial complex and the corporations of America, the countless Republicans of the Senate and Congress and House who voted to keep blood money and bribery legal, and the many more who gave so many tax cuts to the rich and your money to the corporations and banks, the countless thousands who commit hate crime and nearly all mass shootings and nearly every act of terrorism America has suffered, the hundreds of right wing politicians found guilty of felonies and high crime vs the single digits of the left and word of the entire UN...
Then you are NOT a Republican. If you still call yourself one... then you ARE with 'THEM'.
@Jay Bee You know why the Nazis and genocide happened? Because the average German people were exactly like the average modern American. Complacency in aiding a crime is still a crime. Ignorance has never been an excuse to justice or the law. You should know better on your own, especially in a society with people like progressives openly telling you, and even more so with a world screaming it at you with such easy access to modern communication. That goes for EVERYONE.
America dropped hundreds of thousands of flyers on Germany telling them about the concentration camps because the average person didn't know or believe it. They thought it was propaganda and not their problem... just like we did to Native Americans and we're still doing. If they are in ANY way at fault then we are hundreds of times worse. You may be innocent as a kid but the adult thing to do is take responsibility for your circumstance... doesn't matter if you had anything to do with it.
If you were a sentient robot made to kill but with a choice... it's not ok to just keep killing because that's the role you were given.
Lolmthat why they hired mercenaries in the first place, the regular military personnel have alot of red tape(law]to go thought to taken act.
Fox will never tell you the victims' professions because that would humanize them too much
Or their ages or their names.
Or that the victims were other than the mercenaries...
Or even about all but one of the victims
@I'm always Banned mate wasn’t this video about a PMC slaughtering civilians?
@I'm always Banned what are you talking about it ?
Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us
What's even worse is that like 99% of misinformation and disinformation is on Facebook.
"This one's as bad as it gets"
It looks like it got worse
Between this, the federal executions, the arctic set to open up for drilling in a few weeks, and the news story I saw today on treating families separated at the border for trauma, I’m amazed at how this administration is outdoing itself in its final few days. All with the knowledge that the next one won’t do much better
@@acardboardbox7134 at least it will decrease the frequency of those stains on the United States' image.
@@convenientEstelle It won't, it'll just do them with a smile.
@@Peasham because they didn't already?
@@convenientEstelle Because liberals are happy to fellate US imperialism if its the democratic party that's committing the atrocities
"I know this sounds bad, but it gets worse."
I feel like "understatement" is too soft a word to describe this.
It's one of my favorite phrases^^
I can only hope that such a phrase won't be repeated with the magnitude of the situation presented in this video...
It probably will... but I can dream... Maybe.
Understatement.... is an understatement. ;p
@@The116thDoctor or a lie
It somehow always does.
Describing Tucker Carlson’s segment on Fox News as “White Power Hour” is so accurate it’s sad.
I dislike how hes the only one on the network who reports on regime change wars. Its like they(fox news masters) allow him to do that to lend him credibility. I just watched a jimmy dore clip where they celebrated his reporting on syrian false flag chemical attacks. Im definitely calling it white power hour from here on out
@@gyro4250 I don't think it's to lend him credibility; that's what they have a couple hours of more or less straight news reporting in the middle of the day for. Tucker touches lightly on real issues because he knows how to weave them into his fascist narrative. That's something fascism has always done: describe genuine problems facing a society, then point at scapegoats to blame those issues on. They sell false solutions to real problems. Screeching about the wrong-color president wearing a wrong-color suit only gets you so far.
@@Dorian_sapiens Maybe youre not aware, but tucker carlson is literally the only mainstream anchor who has reported on the false narrative behind the chemical attacks in douma. This can only happen if his corporate masters explicitly allow for it. We know the networks beat the identity politics drum 24/7 and that is Carlson's main role. I believe that his coverage on anti-war issues is calculated and planned at the highest levels. The point is to lure in outsiders to the white power hour by being the only place that speaks about such things
I dont mind you using the word fascism to describe the politics of it, but beware that word doesnt fit exactly and the use of it turns people off to what youre saying. We have no democracy, the people in power dont respond to The People but their donors instead. There should be a word for this, but throwing around poorly understood terms from 80 years ago isnt going to resonate with many and will set some against you
@@gyro4250 Jimmy Dore ends up praising Tucker Carlson because they have interests which recently dovetailed. They, due to an unusual set of geopolitical circumstances, have both ended up in a situation where promoting the Russian narrative on world events is beneficial to them politically. That's why you've ended up with a hard lefty praising a hard right winger. Think Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. Both of them, for different reasons, want to present Russia as a benign, or perhaps benevolent force in the world. They both want the United States to stop opposing Russian expansionism, no matter how gross and malevolent it is.
You'd think they'd both oppose Russia because, in the case of Jimmy Dore, Russia is a perfect example of capitalism gone horribly, horribly wrong, and in the case of Tucker Carlson, Russia is a case of big government gone horribly, horribly wrong but for some reason they both find a way to ignore this.
@@gyro4250 The word "fascism" precisely describes the way people like Tucker Carlson interact with politics and current events. I can't really concern myself with sensitive snowflakes who go into hysterics when they hear the word; they should probably get a thicker skin and stop being so PC. And, as for being poorly understood, I put a pretty succinct and accurate description of it right in my earlier reply to you. It's not really _that_ hard to understand, although it certainly is to the benefit of fascists to make it seem like it is.
Tucker Carlson always looks like he's staring at an optical illusion. He just can't figure out what it is he's looking at.
Haha that's it! I've been trying for years to figure out that look, thank you
It's a schooner.
Absolute fact. The guy is in a perpetual state of self induced confusion. Lol
indytbird ???
@@topazxy5809 he thinks rich people are better because they won the birth lottery, and it informs how they speak to mental serfs, like him.
"the reason your uncle can't stop talking about Hillary Clinton selling uranium to Russia over thanksgiving dinner while you sit there in silence trying to remember the good times you had together before fox news and facebook melted his brain"
Oof that hits close.
Well if you weren't political, vandalizing businesses because you think you're in a revolution, he wouldn't be so involved.
@@brightgarinson3099 Hold on, do you think a majority of people who don't enjoy conservative rhetoric are violent protestors or something?
@@carrier2823 Where do you people come up with such strawmans? Is there a link with soy rotting the brain?
@@brightgarinson3099 also, "I was a normal person, but seeing someone being a little too PC made me forsake all my previous opinion and side with racist fascists that are homophobes, transphobes, that normalize white supremacist violence and that support a President that separates Mexican kids from their parents and puts them in God forsaken _concentration camps_" is something that you consider a reasonable position or line of thought... well... either you are too politically naive, or I have bad news.
@@GK-hq8mo Do not feed the trolls.
“Yea you’re an x-wing fighter star-wars man!!!!”
💥
"I swear to God, they wouldn't pay me if they knew how much fun this was-" *BOOM*
For a second there dude I thought you meant Gen X lol
Leaked dialogue from Rise of Skywalker.
I imagine the guy high AF saying that.
"revenge for 9/11" wernt most of the 9/11 hijackers Saudi Arabian?
Minor detail which doesnt matters to a nationalist and psychopath, who actually just wants to kill people and sees here an opportunity to do so legally.
"legally" tho...
revenge for 9/11 is just a flimsy excuse for psychotics to justify wanting to murder brown people
@@alchemicpunk1509 well he obviously thought he would get away with it because this shit probably isnt that unusual. It is just that this was unusually poorly to defend so they had to prosecute their killers.
It's like murdering prostitutes, because you're angry your girlfriend left.
You know you've done something heinous when even the US Army is horrified by it
@@williamtecumsehsherman4574 We're talking about an organization which ethnically cleansed the American West, occupied the Philippines, invaded Vietnam, invaded Iraq, and oversaw Abu Ghrahid prison. There's a lot of blood on the Army's hands is what I'm saying
@@williamtecumsehsherman4574 It means the US military has done some heinous shit over the years and if even IT thinks something is beyond the pale you've fucked up.
You should see what happens between Arabs in Syria
@@midget_spinner8449 Nothing happens between Arabs in Syria. It's just murica on genocide more just like back in Iran, Libya, Afghanistan etc.
@@leodarksam6230
The fact that this insane comment got any upvotes here shows how deeply immersed people are in their ideological echochamber.
I can’t believe they got pardoned today. America is vile.
Always has been.
Our government is vile ftfy
@@unit-0123 And we voted of it. Even if our elections are rigged, we support it with the silence of the majority.
@@ScorpionViper1001 the silence of the majority is only because most people are misinformed about the government
...they got pardoned. Of course they did. You know, sometimes I feel guilty for hoping that USA will collapse soon. Not today though. Today, I'm starting to realise that some countries just _need_ to collapse - and USA is on top of the list.
I also like how Americans remind themselves of Tiananmen square, but conveniently forget to report on any atrocities we have done.
The sources arrows stated were all american. I mean biden even talked about it on tv. So it was reported.
But what has this attrocity done by pmcs that got imprisoned to do with the massacer ordered by tve ccp on tiabamen square, of which news are suppressed by the ccp to thisday ?
And when Tienanmen Square comes up, Americans conveniently leave out the part where the protesters had a lot of Maoists, anarchists, and other socialists who were against liberalization and austerity reforms implemented after Mao's death.
Duck tube It’s relevant because American CONSERVATIVES like to point out the atrocities everyone else is getting up to, but they’ll cover up or justify American atrocities. Btw, Biden and Obama are complicit in a lot of said atrocities. Corporate Democrats talk a big game about being more moral than Republicans, but at the end of the day they serve the same money. America desperately needs a move further left.
@@nekrataali That part is entirely irrelevant man. Mass murder is mass murder.
@transylvanian Why would the CCP ban it's citizens from talking about a massacre that didn't happen instead of exposing the facts they'd no doubt have if you weren't fucking lying.
'neutralised the threat' is such a nice way of saying 'killied lots of people'
Drinker_Of_ Milk yes this sort of language definitely tries the soften the blow.
(still prochoice though; not gonna argue about it)
Zionist media uses that term (among others) all the time when talking about shooting protestors and kidnapping children
You'll also hear this from gun-toting idiot civilians in places like Florida who believe they have the right to use lethal force just because they FEEL threatened. They're always white guys with a hard-on for military/police terminology who don't actually know shit.
I've been listening to a lot of police interrogations lately, and one notable case is Michael Dunn, who killed two teenagers in a gas station parking lot because he believed they stuck a shotgun out of the window of their SUV at him. He says similar stuff like "neutralized the threat", and talks to the cops as if he's one of them.
His interrogation is on RUclips if you ever want to get mad at the people who actually WATCH Fox News
Drinker_Of_ Milk Wait... you think "terminated the pregnancy" sounds better? Sounds like a T-1000 hunted a fetus down. "Neutralized the threat" is just false, they were just civilians. "Terminated the pregnancy" is an accurate description.
These aren't the same.
Drinker_Of_ Milk "Murdering babies". Hey look, more right winger double-speak.
Guy who created blackwater is the brother of Betsy devos. Billionaire in charge of our education right now
Erik Prince, ex-Navy SEAL.
"Tucker Carlson's white power hour" lmao.
that is weird because he really isnt a white supremacist. he is a conservative. does he align sometimes with the far right? yes because to be far right you need to be right but with tucker he is not far right. he denounces shit like that and the far right doesn’t like it.
@@whiteglint7694 tucker Carlson, promoted the myth that George Floyd wasn't killed by the cops
@@whiteglint7694 Tucker Klansman went on TV and said "We need to fight to secure the nation we where born in" and said that we needed to prioritize white votes to preserve our country.
Tucker Karlson is quite literally spitting neo nazi talking points
@@whiteglint7694 whilst he’s too much of a pussy to do anything himself, he undoubtably thinks white people are superior. Look at any of his comments about immigration. Just a few weeks ago he was saying how we need to stop the democrats to protect our future and to do this we need to stop race mixing. He said the dems can only get non whites to vote for them implying the GOP represents ‘real Americans’
So stopping race mixing to protect the future for whites? Look up the 14 words.
@@whiteglint7694 His former writer is an outspoken white supremacist who bragged about sneaking in dog whistles in to Tucker Carlsons segments. He's no longer writing for Tucker, but Tucker still loves him.
This is not even to mention that he repeats white nationalist talking points and helps fear monger about immigrants, helping spread the narrative that they're rapists and murderers when they commit less crime than the native population. Ultimately doing more damage than any other "actual" white nationalist could ever do.
So should we really care about whether he will say the words "my race is superior to your race"? Or that that the damage he does, his rhetoric and his influence is inseparable form someone who would. And that, like it or not, he leads people down that rabbit hole, so even if he wasn't a white supremacist, he creates them. Ultimately I don't think you can say he's not a white supremacist given all of these things, and neither should it matter, cause he's far worse in all honesty.
“Heyyyy everybody! Today we are gonna talk about Fucks News.”
-Three Arrows, 2019
Faux News. And I am so, so disappointed that only works in text.
He should say it as "Fucts News". A Lawyer mentioned something of this effect. It helps avoid the demonitization thing.
"Fake News" Holy shit Trump was right for once!
HAHAHAHA! The accent makes the pronunciation so appropriate....
You should hear how Americans fuck up vowels in every word, it's hilarious, it's like a vowel impediment.
I was in Baghdad with the US Army on that day, on the east side of the city. I was even on the radio net as it happened. The Blackwater convoy was in no danger. The VBIED they claim to have been afraid of went off more than a mile away straight line, closer to a mile and a half by road. Even on the day of, we knew just from internal Army coms that this was a flat out massacre.
This was my second tour in Iraq, and we already knew the Blackwater guys were gun-happy cowboys who seemed to take pride in the fact they didn't have to answer to US Army command, and went out of their way to be assholes to Iraqis. We were shocked, but not surprised to hear a Blackwater convoy had slaughtered civilians.
Yikes, I'm still surprised I'm just now hearing about any of this even with me intentionally not really paying attention to news most of my life (because of stuff like how fox news very intentionally twist stories, though recently I've been keeping an eye on things just to get an idea of what is going on even if I know media in general likes twisting stories, especially Fox)
@@refraggedbean
I was still in school at the time and it was discussed in Germany, especially since our green party (previously mainly pacifists) was pressured into agreeing to contribute to the military mission (under tight observation and with peace keeping /building provisions)... Not that it did any good.
@@fionafiona1146
Pacifism simply prepares the working class for the next war. The greens never stopped Germany's longstanding tradition of massive international arms deals. There was a reason Joschka Fischer as Foreign minister got the nickname "the war minister" for moving forward German participation in the Terror bombing of the Balkans, the first open military attacks by Germany outside its borders since WW2. "Human-rights" imperialism is the excuse of pacifists and open warmongers alike, and sometimes they are the same people.
*Edited for spelling.
@@junkersintutus4282
And people are still disappointed with the way it happened.
German exports contribute little to the domestic economy and global market but should still end.
Offering Americans coffee and nurses is all ready more military contribution, than I want. Unutilized reconnaissance, training local abusers of power (including Chinese) and keeping people victimised are beyond my understanding.
@@fionafiona1146
The families of the people who were bombed by German planes or killed by German munitions are probably still disappointed too, but they provably wouldn't distinguish between which NATO member attacked them or armed the Croatians or or whatever faction did.
Imagine having to go back to place where you son is massacred and having to pick up parts of his brain and knowing you can't do shit to get justice. How can someone be normal after that?
And than they are surprised that global terrorism only growths and growths
Ask Kate Steinle's dad.
I'd turn into the fucking joker
and that is why people like the colorado mass shooter come here and take revenge on us. because of stupid foreign wars that line the pockets of the elite. it really is outrageous, the war economy. we need massive reform. the peace party or something of the sorts would be a good start.
@White_glint 01 reform or revolution
Three Arrow NEUTRALIZES Fox News with Facts & Logic!
Fist me daddy???? R U OK?
Awh! You forgot to CAPITALIZE FACTS and LOGIC!!! Now people won't think it was that extreme simply because you didn't capitalize the letters.
@@dkramerstein okay but only because you asked so nicely
A fair and balanced approach
This isn't something to joke about. Have some fucking respect for the dead.
"Before Fox News and Facebook melted his brain"
I've said it many times before, but I miss the times my right-winged mother was JUST a fundamentalist Christian and not a conspiracy-theorist who also buys into borderline/actual fascist and new-age rhetoric while also saying the N-word basically out of spite.
So relatable
my mom's the same way. Moved to Georgia as /just/ a christian fundamentalist and now after Trump was elected and a couple years in the south she came up to visit and is straight up a far right extremist neo-nazi with hot takes like the kids in the border camps deserve it and, "Good, I'm glad they're drinking out of toilets." She used to be a lovely lady, now I'm debating cutting her off
Chloe Yurko I feel you 100%. I've debated moving out (I live with my parents) just so I don't have to deal with her. Even worse since she's basically trying to radicalize my dad who's already a conservative. Thankfully he doesn't buy into all of it. I'm pretty sure. He at least doesn't agree with the N-word stuff at all and doesn't seem nearly as far-right as her.
@@FeralKobold Goes to prove that there are not good fundamentalists. Whover is so close minded on ANYTHING is simply not a good person and never was.
Hella gross.
When I first heard the term "Military Contractor" during the Iraq war it was when a military contractor was captured by Iraqi insurgents.
My first thought was "Wow that sucks, that person was just there to help the military construct buildings its not like they were a soldier or anything."
Yeah being naive is great.
You were probably correct in your initial assessment. Most contractors in Iraq were not PMC's. PMC's were around 16%. Who do you think was running all the mess halls? Mostly foreign contractors. I don't remember a single one that wasn't foreign in 2004-2006. So it's possible that kidnapped contractor was just some foreigner trying to earn a living doing soldiers laundry. Much more likely than it was some rambo blackwater douche.
Hell, before this, I thought that "Military Contractor" was just fancy talk for "Private company that manufactures guns/tanks/canteens/radios/MREs/combat knives/military grade nose hair trimmers"
SuperHamsterhuey it kinda is. It’s basically any third party that the military hires for anything
@Cian Abroad They're talking about people who do mundane things like cleaning toilets or work in food service. They hire people from the local populace or economically depressed nations because they can pay them much, much less than Americans. It's still bad but most 'contractors' aren't actually mercenaries. But those sorts of contractors aren't PMC's either. PMC's are exclusively mercenaries.
Merc’s where never out lawed. Rather they were in decline as the creation of a professional armed military became regular in the developed world. Then came this idea of the private market can do anything the state can, but better. And now merc’s are on the rise
The fact that this man witnessed his own innocent son be slaughtered in front of him and then went to collect pieces of his flesh to bury him is grotesque and truly disturbing. The lengths Fox News goes to excuse literal war criminals is enough to make me vomit. I am appalled and embarrassed at the state of this country.
I'm an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran and I'm glad to see you talking about this. thank the algorithm for bringing me here. if your other videos are as well put together as this one, I'll be gladly watching your content.
Believe me. They are. Just watch his video on Black Pigeon Speaks.
how.many people killed war criminal
im not american and i hate how people idolize your army, but you deserve every bit of respect for acknowledging this
@@jbeil-byblosbaalback6850 It might help that he's German.
He’s got a serious left wing bias, but it’s usually not too bad. Good info for the most part.
Ah yes, "unsung heroes" with heavy firearms VS woman crying for her child and some kids.
It's times like this that I am reminded of the greatest summary of Human Nature ever put to film: "that how it's _done!_ when people are sitting on shit that you want, you make them your enemy.... then you're 'justified' in taking it."
Sean D.G
What’s that from?
@@ard1805 I don't know but it sounds exactly like the plot of Avatar.
@@lmilne2635 It is, I just finished watching the movie, lmao 😂
god mercenaries make my skin crawl like they don't even fight for there country or any "good" cause as there nation calls it they just do it for money or worse fun
PMC's are the epitome of a capitalist dystopia
Edit: I am aware that mercenaries existed long before capitalism. Im talking about corporations becoming armies for the rich
mercenaries have been a thing since antiquity, long before capitalism was a concept. and adding dystopia to capitalism is redundant
haji dangerfield
Care to propose a better system than regulated capitalism? Preferably one that:
a) Works and doesn't just collapse after a few years due to their leaders' retardation
b) Doesn't devolve into a police state with a bureaucratic elite that acts pretty much the same way, if not worse, as rich business owners do
Excluding reformist democratic socialists, all commies (and anarchists) are either bloodthirsty lunatics or delusional retards. Hell, sometimes they are both. Shoutout to that anarchist dipshit who literally defended putting political dissidents in gulags and is still praised by the Breadtube crowd. Even as a social democrat, I would rather die than side with that scourge
Flankster who’s more delusional, the person looking to replace an utterly broken system centered on profit, or the person who believes everyone will play nice when we finally get the rulebook right?
Revolutionary Communist
Spoken like a true 14 year old who gets all of their political views from Reddit and RUclipsrs.
milque toast
"Utterly broken system". Oh yeah, Finland, Sweden and Denmark are truly utterly broken countries. They should totally be more like fucking pre-1989 Eastern Europe. As much as I like Daniel, I kinda blame him for cultivating this Chapo audience by associating himself with the Breadtube neckbeards
"Firstly, FOX News is a disgraceful, hateful profit racket with no redeeming qualities."
Ah, easing the audience in I see.
EDIT: Damn, this was hard to listen to. I can't imagine life in a war zone, but the horrors that happened in that square sure helped. I think this is the first time a RUclips video has brought me to tears.
NewhamMatt ^^^ npc
imagine complaining about 1 out of like 100 shitty msms
He just fucking did it He just pardoned them I'm crying I'm so angry
Blackwater sounds like some dystopian mercenary group... oh wait
Cyberpunk was gone by the 2000s because it was too cliche and dated.
Cyberpunk is making a comeback, but only among the intellectual and depressive set, because t's too much like everyday life so it really can't be escapist fiction anymore.
Foxrider Scorpion
I was wondering why I had suddenly got a craving to buy shadowrun and preorder cyberpunk 2077. I think i’m psychologically training myself for the future
It sounds like the name of the enemy group in some generic COD game.
Yeah, that's giving me MGS4 vibes.
I knew Fox News was really really really really bad. I didn’t think they were THIS bad.
Hoooly shit.
I've looked into the owners of Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc..They are all owned by the same oligarch class. Fox is allowed to look bad so the others look good.
@Drinker_Of_ Milk Democracy does not do that. For profit news owned by rich people pushing their agendas does that.
Drinker_Of_ Milk my immediate response would be; what would you replace it with? If the free market of ideas is bad, who decides which ideas are not permissible?
I’m not trying to be snarky, I’m genuinely curious.
@@davidblair9877 Doesn't propaganda just mean any media that serves any agenda? Not to trivialise the horrors described in this video btw - I feel like we're sort of going into a different conversation now. But "you should rescue dogs from shelters" is propaganda if it comes from a political source, as far as I know. Maybe I'm wrong.
I guess my question would be - if we got rid of democracy, what would replace it?
I watch fox and people who hate it. I bet you only watch people who hate it.... you must be very informed
2020 update. 45 has just pardoned these mass murderers
Everyone involved with black water should be prosecuted for war crimes.
Nerevar Because he’s a jackass whose never been in combat, yet thinks he has the right to moralize and pontificate whilst mocking and deriding these men, these men who he never has, and never will understand.
Everyone’s imperious until they have to make a split second decision in the heat of combat, if he thinks he has any right to deem those who work with Blackwater war-criminals then he is just as ignorant as anyone on the Alt-Right.
@@arminiuschieftainofthecher2780 By that logic, you don't believe anyone involved with ISIS should be prosecuted either
161 False equivalence; I stated that deeming anyone (regardless of what race or creed they are, including ISIL fighters) evil or guilty of war crimes due to them having fucked up is in the heat of combat is insane. Additionally, saying EVERYONE involved in the massacre should be accused is equally insane, that literally means setting a precedent for guilty by association.
That's a funny way of saying "should be killed painfully"
@@arminiuschieftainofthecher2780 every one employed by black water should either be put to death or put in prison for life
Imagine hating iraqis for something Saudi Arabia funded
I mean... it's not that hard to imagine this guy's thought processes. They aren't that complex. He probably wasn't exposed to much diversity as a kid and was filled with christian propaganda so that he simply took his religion for granted while other religions seemed bad and dumb. Then some people from another religion blew up the world trade center on 9/11 and the christian propagandists leaned in on this. They probably painted people who weren't white with a broad brush as well, since bigotry all seems to come from the same source of irrational fear of the other. So he just views all these "others" in broad strokes and doesn't bother differentiating them... then he's galvanized to extremism. And on top of it all he probably has some issues with mental illness that are going completely untreated, which combined with his shitty views lead to well... this. But yeah, imagining is easy.
Hatred is never rational, only rationalised.
An awesome - albeit heartbreaking - comment thread.
XO
Wait, why did my comment get deleted?
@@Nina-cd2eh Its been happening to me too - I think its mb an app/site bug...
Something I think worth pointing out about how Fox whitewashes the Nisour square massacre is their propagandist makes specific effort to call out, and berate, the fact that the mercenaries in question are being tried in a civilian court. I think this detail is something worth noting when you remember one of the inciting actions behind the American revolution was that, prior to independence, British Imperial troops stationed in the American territories did not answer to the local civil authorities, and were consequently allowed to get away with multiple criminal acts; it was consequently a detail specifically stated in the Constitution of the United States (and the first article at that!) that the military should be answerable to a civil authority. By arguing against that principle here, Flaherty is arguing against both the Constitution of the United States, and in fact one of the principles behind the American revolution itself!
What did they get away with? The main incident I can remember in pre-revolution America was the Boston Massacre. While the incident became heavily propagandised, the soldiers involved were tried by the local authorities (and defended by future President John Adams) within the year. So that isn't really 'getting away with criminal acts'.
@@efffvss In 1768 British marines stationed in Annapolis, Maryland murdered two civilians, rather than being given a proper trial they were given a court martial and declared innocent. A similar situation occurred in North Carolina in 1771. The 27 Grievances in the Declaration of Independence make specific mention of how "[King George] has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power" (grievance 12) "protecting [imperial troops], by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states" (grievance 15) and "is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and unworthy [of] the head of a civilized nation" (grievance 25, particularly noteworthy as it's specifically complaining about the use of mercenary troops).
It still shocks me that Trump did end up giving the men involved with this massacre pardons or sentence commutations. I mean, I felt sickened to my stomach when I heard about his pardoning of that Navy SEAL who was convicted of torturing and murdering a literal child, and even had the gall to say that he should have his SEAL pin back. But these assholes killed a small crowd of people solely for their own hatred and they were rewarded for it. As someone who has had quite a few relatives who served in Iraq or Afghanistan it makes me sick that they stained the collective honor of our country, who were selected and hired in order to simply provide back up and security have been allowed to walk away from this scot free.
“Neutralize” the threat. - War Crime Apologist
I keep asking myself, “how did America get here?,” but then I remember America has always been here
Whenever someone says "this isn't (insert name of colonised country) is about" I get the urge to slap them with a history book
The only good (...) is a dead (...), or so the saying goes.
@@lachlancampbell6328 And that's where you failed. They read a history book. It was a government-issued watered down book. We know what the true history is because we have access to the raw uncensored version on the internet
@@irishdc9523 University grade history books then?
Shouldn't hit them with the book then though, otherwise you may give them a concussion, since those are some heavy ass books...
@@irishdc9523 Relying on "the internet" to give you the "true history" is also just nuts, though. The amount of propaganda disguised as "looking behind the curtain" or "telling the true story" or "asking the real questions" on the internet is truly astonishing.
PMCs have always disgusted me. War is already disgusting and making a business of it is downright inhuman.
@Sorrious Sad your point?
@Sorrious Sad so has murder. You gonna argue that murder is okay now?
No war in modern times has not been fought without an eye on potential profits. The PMCs just don't hide their greed, is all.
Japan and Germany were two of the biggest manufacturers in the world before we all disallowed them the right to continue doing business, then somehow America became the economic superpower.
All war is business, even the ones we have to fight.
The bastard just pardoned them! Truly disgusting!
Trump pardoning these individuals is completely and utterly unforgivable.
My father calls FOX News "The Goebbels Channel"
His right
You have a cool dad. My dad would probably say it's the only non-biased news station.
Fox News == Pravda.
@@CyberiusT Pravda is/was a much better and more honest and legitimate source than FOX
@@CyberiusT Nah
people have short memories.
As Chomsky would have put it, "the war is “fundamentally wrong and immoral,” not “a mistake,”
If they hadn't intervened Chomsky would have called the collaboration with Hussein fundamentally wrong and immoral.
Taxtro Well he’d still be right
Existence of states is fundamentally wrong and amoral. What can you do? They trade with blood of their citizens.
So, you would rather we had let Saddam Hussein live, & allow his reign of terror to continue, & never brought freedom & democracy to the Iraqi people? Child, please!
@@TheMouseAvenger Oh I forgot, it's a light switch. Only 2 choices.
Piss off you bedbug.
A year ahead of it's time, Three Arrows called the pardon of these murderers.
And that POS Fox News host Pete Hegseth brokered it.
"Enemies using nasty tactics..." sounds just like FOX News.
Casualties (from Wikipedia):
Killed:
Ahmed Haithem Ahmed Al Rubia'y
Mahassin Mohssen Kadhum Al-Khazali
Osama Fadhil Abbas
Ali Mohammed Hafedh Abdul Razzaq
Mohamed Abbas Mahmoud
Qasini Mohamed Abbas Mahmoud
Sa'adi Ali Abbas Alkarkh
Mushtaq Karim Abd Al-Razzaq
Ghaniyah Hassan Ali
Ibrahim Abid Ayash
Hamoud Sa'eed Abttan
Uday Ismail Ibrahiem
Mafadi Sahib Nasir
Ali Khalil Abdul Hussein
Wounded:
Majed Salman Abdel Kareem Al-Gharbawi
Jennan Hafidh Abid al-Razzaq
RHasonFiaheb Al- -Najif
Mohanad Wadhnah
Haydar Ahmad Rabie Hussain Al-Khafaji
Hassan Jaber Salman
Farid Walid Hasoun Al-Kasab
Abdul Amir Raheem Jihan Yasser
Wisam Raheem. Fliah Hasan Al-Miri
Talib Mutluk Diwan
Adel Jaber Sham'ma Al-Jadiri
Nasir Hamzah Latif Al-Rikabi
Mahdi Abid Khider Abbas Al-Faraji
Abdul Wahab Abdul Qadar Al-Qalamchi
Bara Sadoon Ismail Al-Ani
Sami Hawa Hamud Al-Sabahin
Fawziyyah Aliwi Hassoon
Ali Hadi Naji Al-Rubaie
Alah Majeed Sghair Zaidi
Jassim Mohammad Hashim
None of the innocents murdered will get any real justice.
Me, a Patriotic American™: Those are clearly foreign, Middle Eastern names, so their deaths don’t matter.
/s
May they rest in peace and paradise forever.
thank you
Human beings are human beings, but goddamn did we ever decide to occupy different parts of the alphabet.
I wish my name had more q’s and z’s.
This actually made me feel sick to listen to. Good reporting, but I'm just...really upset.
They are monsters
This is basic stuff, if you really paid attention, shit like this wouldent eaven make you bat an eye...
@@SaigeAlexis Erm, Ellen is best friends with Bush now. Fox, CNN MSNBC etc, are all owned by the same oligarchs, CEOs, Presidents. They all attend the same cocktail parties.
Fox is encouraged to look bad so the others look good.
Me too i had to stop midway since it was worsening my depression :(
@@unlikelysuspect5491 I dunno about you, but hearing the violent murder of innocent and children never, and should never, be "basic stuff". Nor people defending the perpetrators.
It's actually rage inducing that these scumbags were pardoned. Disgusting
I wonder how disowned I would be if I sent this to my Fox News watching mother
What riles me up the most, that they were all walking into this with open eyes.
Everyone with half a functioning brain knew, that something like this would happen if you use private contractors in a conflict zone and give them immunity. It is inevitable.
Never ever should they have privatized the military sector.
Everybody knew, it was just not everyone cared. The people who profit view the victims as mere obstacles, the only thing they care about is their bottom line.
That's capitalism for ya.
If anyone even questions why something should not be privatised they are vilified as a communist. America is the most privatised country on the planet and although I can't exactly say how it will happen, it wouldn't surprise me if the government itself ended up as a private entity. Some could argue that the excessive influence private lobby groups have in politics already is a start. America is in real trouble as a nation and people need to start doing something about it.
Capitalism freaking sucks then. Especially hyper-capitalism.
I love the fact that the language of America has shifted from 'mercenary' to 'private military contractor' in order to lessen the stigma and ease people into the idea. I feel like it's backfired a bit, since now we know that anyone who insists on 'mercenary' is at least honest, and probably has other scruples.
Side note, fuck Flaherty and every other Irish American going to bat for the powerful against the weak. We should all goddamned know better.
@Drinker_Of_ Milk Check out how most mercenaries behaved in the Thirty Years War, and you'll have your answer.
Aye, it's a shame some of our brethren abandoned those in the same boat as them just for a seat at the table with their former (and arguably still current since even within white supremacy some whites are more equal than others) oppressors.
@Drinker_Of_ Milk Weren't the soldiers of the 4th crusade basically mercenaries under the employ of Venice and Alexios by the time that happened?
it reminds me of that George Carlin bit about how we sanitise the trauma of combat veterans, turning the condition of "shellshock" to "combat fatigue" to the extremely long-winded and highly sanitised "post-traumatic stress disorder"
Here to remember the atrocity the day after the pardon. What a shitty fucking world
My high school US history teacher is a former Blackwater mercenary and kicked me out of class when I said he was no different than a pinkerton when we were learning about the workers rights movement lol
On behalf of my species, I apologize to the foxes of the world for the perversion of their name by a right-wing propaganda outlet.
If cnn was named after an animal, that animal would be extinct thanks to cuntservatives.
uwu
same
how did you access a computer
19:04 “ *In the summer of 2007 there were actually more private military contractors on behalf of the US government in Iraq than actual soldiers.* “
That’s the most disgusting thing I have ever heard. Holy shit. How did I not know that? How was this not more widely reported?!
Every time you hear about Trump pulling troops out of the middle east, just remember that he's only talking about real soldiers. The number of mercenaries is always growing.
I did not find his source link for the pmcs in 2007 yet, can someobe link it to me pls.
Thx in advance
@Jay Bee Sadly I can't give you any numbers since the US government deliberately does not keep them... and as the saying goes, if they have something to hide, they have reason to fear.
Our army is bigger then all the other nations combined by nearly a dozen times over... We've used it to kill MILLIONS since WW2, to threaten every nation and get away with countless international crimes. So few even realize most of the right wing politicians are wanted criminals in most of the world. So few realize they ALL would be if they weren't threatening nuclear war every month....
"It's all part of the plan..." That plan being to maximize profits for the M.I.C., of course.
I come from a military family, that spans 4 generations so far, including 5 WW2 veterans, 1 Vietnam veteran, 1 Gulf War veteran, and 3 Iraq War veterans. The very idea of mercenaries, especially ones from the US, is something that I find so detestable it’s hard to put into words. The human pukes that make up Blackwater are the living embodiment of every negative stereotype of the psychotic arrogance, and sadism that is unfortunately imposed on less fortunate nations through American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War. Stories like this massacre are essentially standard operating procedure with PMCs, who have become magnets for unhinged homicidal types who seek to legitimize their psycho-fantasies with a salary. PMCs should be outlawed. 😡
Who is here after 4 BlackWater contractors/war criminals got pardoned by Trump?
Everybody. I just threw up in my cereal bowl
Heroes*
@@Dazen101 best dark joke I've heard all year.
Seems like he is going to pardon every evil person he can on his way out. He’ll probably try to pardon himself on his way out
I feel like my country is less safe after he let so many thugs out of prison.
Of all the despicable, disgusting conditions a human being can willfully descend into, "lying apologist for mercenaries committing war crimes" is hard to beat for sheer moral bankruptcy.
How about "lying apologist for terrorists who falsely accuses heroes of war crimes"?
@@4d1n70
"You mean like the Blackwater terrorists falsely accusing innocent civilians as war criminals?"
Yes, falsely accusing heroes of war crimes, just like that.
These monsters have now been freed. Its sick.
It's certainly chilling to look at the face of true evil, calmly talking on a television news show.
Hate sells, and unfortunately for us all, appealing to America's hate gives you gangbucks
And now there's pardoned by the Toddler in chief! Disgusting!!
COALITION OF THE WILLING?? MORE LIKE COALITION OF THE BI--
Unfortunately the blackwater terrorists have been pardoned. And one of those thugs said "I felt like I acted correctly" after the pardon.
Just came here to say that they just got pardoned and I'm livid and unsurprised all at once.
I suppose as an upside, a pardon means you admit you did it, cause you can't be pardoned without accepting to having commited a crime.
Tragic coming back here after Trump pardoned the killers
I just want to remind everybody that these were the people Donald Trump decided to pardon.
“Now I know this sounds bad, but it gets worse”
‘Er we go
Revisiting this video because the people who have done this have just now been pardoned. There is no justice.
And the pro-war Faux news host and republicon operative Pete Hegseth lobbied Trump directly for their pardon.
The worst part is, I can believe that stuff like this happened every day. Not this brazen, not on this scale, but I can definitely see unprovoked violence on civilians-maybe even violence that maims or kills people-being performed somewhere in Iraq every day that Blackwater was working there. That that many people were so hateful or apathetic to the Iraqi people that they would do such things, and their co-workers wouldn't even see fit to mention it. And that scares the hell out of me.
Wars of any scale always bring this kind of pain.
However, as soon as professional nationless soldiers (mercenaries) are involved, everything spirals further out of control.
This is one of the main reasons why war should always be avoided at any cost. No war has been fair on civilians.
it is estimated that 80-90% of civilian deaths during the Iraq are attributed to insurgents. During World War 2, what we would consider today to be war crimes, were committed against Nazis. Even innocent German civilians who were not participants in the war, were brutally killed. During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong (insurgent group within the sovereign state of South Vietnam), set off bombings that killed mostly civilians that they were intending winning the sympathies of.
War is not right or wrong, it is morally grey.
@@thomashamilton5817 Maybe if the US didn't destabilize the whole country there wouldn't be powerful insurgencies roaming around.
My heart hurts for those people...
Distgusting acts like this only create more enemies, those mercenary dogs should be made obsolete.
Ampheta.miner Cometh the word you’re looking for is hanged
“That last being the literal last sentence of the pilot”
You love to see it.
Mad Jack Churchill I hate to see it.
Too bad more mercenaries weren’t in that plane.
Hearing the accounts... This was an act of sadism. This was nothing short of evil.
I read the article, and it is disgusting how Blackwater's company acted as a whole, even after the incident. They refused to give this father a fucking apology and tried to bribe him with $20k instead. Imagine being that heartless.
It's difficult to give a video like this a like. I don't like this. I appreciate it though. Thanks for sharing it. As an aside, Betsy DeVos's father in law founded Amway. So the evil in that family runs thick and true.
Grift and self-righteousness is genetically inheritable it seems.
Liking and disliking aren’t really liking and disliking. They serve the exact same purpose within the algorithm.
You don’t like that he’s exposing subversive media practices by Fox News...?
Melodius The subject matter is too depressing to like the video, is the message.
@@ScorpionViper1001 Even if there was a genetic component, I am fairly certain it would be minimal. Especially when compared to the expectations, actions, teachings and goals that are surely taught within this family, even if through exemplary action alone. The environment they consequently create for their family members will produce some similar ambitions and a similar dis-regard for ethics. They are taught greed over moral principles. They are taught only moral principles that do not invalidate their positions of power.
I am not trying to blame you personally for any misconceptions, but this sort of casual genetical mis-explanation just shows how some deeply racist pseudo-science just refuses to fully die in our public discourse. Genetics is real and important and worth studying. However, it is dangerous as a singular go-to explanation for human behaviour. I hope I didn't bother you.
(If I didn't bother you, you might want to check out youtube for Stanford's Robert Sapolski. As an expert on both the human brain and primate behaviour, he has some deeply insightful perspectives on human behaviour. +a book)
Postgraduate Peace and Conflict Researcher here; just wanted to let you know that this video is massive and utterly important. Jeremy Scahill has more than once proven his ability to uncover and classify aspects of U.S. military engagement throughout the world, and with Iraq being not my own field (more tilted towards Afghanistan and Pakistan), reading Scahill's interviews was shocking - although the atrocities commited by Blackwater mercenaries are legion in my field since the beginning of the second Gulf War.
What's still largely missing, and this is what makes your video so important, is to link these security incidences back to domestic policy, because it's difficult to relate these two seemingly unlinked areas! Thank you.
I believe Foucault did this with his bio politics. The tactics used overseas on insurgents and "enemy combatants" being used on the populace at home. A book called Cities Under Siege looked into this phenomenon. There's a reason we as black persons feel that we're treated as enemy combatants: Given Former US Army persons are giving police a warrior training mentality and combine this with militarized gear and us vs them thinking and the propaganda, and you have a domesticated Army ready to enact whatever measures they see fit to keep persons safe. "Certain" persons that is.
BTW Peace and Conflict? What does that entail?
Well it happened. They got pardoned. My country... I can’t believe it.
"Picking up pieces of his head"
Some people deserve cruel and unusual torture until death, prove me wrong
I'm not sure anyone could because you're not really speaking about facts(in the sense of how this should be punished) in any objective capacity. Not supportive of these disgusting murders by the way just questioning the logic here.
That said I'd be more in favor of stripping them of all their gear and left in some wilderness, give them a chance to survive and redeem themselves, but I'd be in favor of making it unfair for them given how their victims were given very little of chance but that's not me being objective either.
@@Sara3346
1. They fired on civilians
2. Some them were enjoying it, all were fine with it
3. They got off free
Monsters have no rights as far as I’m concerned, and death is too easy. Slow, painful torture to death is the only punishment befitting these creatures.
As an Arab this burns my veins from the inside.
I get every arab who has had an experience like that in their life and takes up arms against the US and it's allies. I'm from central Europe.
And mine.
The love of my life fled from the country as a child. He was lucky enough to have met nice American soldiers that gave him food. I can't imagine what would've happened if he had met the wrong crowd.
@transylvanian "We need to take a page out of the Soviet playbook and start putting fascists in gulags and re-education camps."
Because that worked so well in the past...
@@Argacyan Then you're part of the cycle.
@transylvanian Except the Soviets were putting pretty much everyone in the camps, murdering thousands, millions in the process.
Remember, to someone out there you're the 'fascist'.
Really of topic, but the rant about the metric system shows you with what kind of 'news' network we're dealing with
The rant about metric system? ^^'
And why would anyone thought that imperial system is better than metric system? Besides, it's not metric system, americans are the onlyone calling it like that, it's International System XD
Krankar Volund please search fox metric system on youtube, the real thing is even more ridiculous than it sounds
Well, you shouldn't come between an American and his 'freedom' units.
This is painful to watch now.
Oh boy, who’s watching after Trump pardoned the Blackwater mercenaries?
Yep, whatta POS.
"We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hakim, who is an Iraqi leftist, posted a video yesterday that's extremely related to this one. I encourage everyone to check it out.
Just did. Fantastic vid.
Could you please link it?
I am just so disgusted
There is this creepy, mercy less mercenary army killing people with NO REASON and they call it NEUTRALIZING THE THREAT
I want to scream honestly
And punch them
Im against violence but this is unbelievable
Stop fucking shooting at kids
Are you fucking blind
I swear your channel is one of the best out there.
Credibility 10/10
Clear presentation 10/10
Admittance of bias, openly reporting evidence and facts 10/10
I dont like the term PMCs its like youre trying to humanize an old profession. Mercenaries
It's the job of administration to make bad practices good by changing their name :D
@@krankarvolund7771 doublespeak
Really, to me, it sounds more like they are trying to make it seem like an ordinary piece of equipment or some bureacratic unimportant detail. PMC, one letter away from PMCS, which just means "maintenance," (primary maintenance checks and services). It dehumanizes, to the point that we don't feel positive of negative about it. It's not a person, let alone a villain. You don't get mad at GIs, OTCs, or HMMVs. Just, an acronym, not a person.
@@SplotPublishing True, most right wingers refuse to fully think of them as mercenaries. They often view them more like volunteer cops or national guard.
@@SplotPublishing perhaps humanize wasnt the best choice of words on my part, but you get the point. They are trying to make them sound like something else just so we dont have visions of mercenaries slaughtering innocents. Just the PMCs clearing the area
I like it when everyone's favorite German guy uploads a video
True, he's definitely second on the list of my two favorite German men.
@@BigJoe2286 I take it you mean uncle Adi? LOL.
@@MickeyD2012 ye
Great video. Here in America we have a long, proud history of valorizing our war criminals. The men behind the massacre at Wounded Knee were awarded medals. Hell, literal songs were written celebrating the men behind the My Lai massacre. It's a tradition as American as apple pie.
Jesus christ, those eyewitness accounts. I can't imagine going through this if you lost loved ones in this or similar events.
Good to see Dan stepping up the humor here, not to mention he seems much more expressive now. Premature congratulations on 200k subs, Dan.
Becoming less German tho
Yea you’re right especially in this one. The German has really faded, but considering the subject content for this episode it’s understandable
@@fulcrum2951 It's kinda funny, there's plenty that's different between the two languages, but one of the things I've noticed, in large part thanks to our host Daniel, is how many words English and German share or that sound similar but have different pronunciations (even considering most languages have a fair bit of loan words from English and that both have lots of words that originate from Latin.) And it was kinda funny to hear his German pronunciation of certain English words, especially when they accidentally sound like something else. Lest we forget "annals/anus of right wing thought." And, even in this video, his pronunciation of my home state's name. *Sigh* If only Jesse Helms was the worst thing we cursed this country with.
@@ScorpionViper1001 for me its not about the language, but the behavior of Three arrows here.
He's becoming less 'German' for me is that he's becoming slightly more 'emotional' (not in a bad way). You know of the stereotype of Germans being very efficient right?
@@fulcrum2951I think I understand.
oh it's one of those "this is disgusting but I can't say I'm surprised" stories.
The fact that this is disturbing, but not that shocking is so depressing.
And these people were just pardoned. Unbelievable.