diamond said:
I dunno Doc.
First of all hes remains have been confirmed, so he's dead.
Secondly -
put the shoe on the other foot---what if it was your family member that hes final days of his life were being taped? He was being tortured ect..?
Outta of respect for HIS memory and HIS survivors do YOU think this is approiate?
Wouldnt you want people, paticularly strangers NOT to LOOK at your love ones last days of life REGARDLESS of their motives?
Maybe the family only if they chose and proper legal and military personel only would be understandable.
My point is -its about RESPECTING Danny Pearl's memory above all else.
Peace-
diamond
At the time I viewed the footage (and it was on file sharing programs LONG before any Boston newspaper put a link to a web site containing this footage), Danny Pearl's remains had yet to be found. Also, I'm not sure everything his death 100% confirmed. The last I heard, there were CLAIMS that the remains had been found, but I have yet to read true 100% confirmation. That said, sadly, I think he was murdered.
As for the watching the video... Would I want people to watch a tape of one of my family members dying in this fashion?
YES! A 100000x YES!
And if this is offensive to you - then take offense.
Why would I want this? Because of what I wrote in my first post above - that by viewing this tape, it helps people realize just how brutal and barbaric these hypocrites are. We cannot and should not take them lightly. The tragedies of Sept. 11th cannot be "packaged away" and remembered the way we remember Pearl Harbor, for there is a VERY strong possibility that these events can happen again. The more people realize that our lives have changed forever, the better.
If watching one of my own family members die by this barbaric events helps save the life of just one reporter who also thought he'd get some "exclusive interview" or makes one complacent person realize that we can never forget Sept. 11th, then I applaud people watching it.
If anything, watching that tape, as barbaric as it is, does honor Pearl. We get to see this handsome, hard-working man forced to say things against his will. And we sadly see him apparently murdered. What was his crime? Why was life brutally taken from him? Because he simply lived in the U.S. No one should die because of where they live. Men may have divided the land, but God created ONE planet.
Danny Pearl, in my eyes, is just as much a hero as those who died on Sept. 11th. That video taught us a lot. It taught us more about these barbaric hypocrites. It taught us never to forget. It taught us to recognize our freedom as a gift, a gift that millions of others do not have. If all you see is a man being killed, then you have learned nothing.