Comments on: Bin Laden killing: Justice or vengeance?

By: Peter Household

Peter Household — Wed, 04 May 2011 13:07:14 +0000

The US action can be likened to a gangland murder. Police? You’re joking aren’t you? We’ll do it our way!

It’s worth studying a UN press release on 2nd May. The Security Council hailed the death of bin Laden, welcomed the news that he “will never again be able to perpetrate such acts of terrorism”, and called for increased co-operation among countries to urgently “bring to justice the perpetrators, organisers and sponsors of terrorist attacks.”

Full text in UN press release here: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2011/sc10239.doc.htm

One can ask : what does the expression “bring to justice” mean in that sentence? Does it mean justice in the Texan sense? As when George W Bush vowed to bring the terrorists to justice or justice to the terrorists?

By: Kingharvest

Kingharvest — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:21:44 +0000

The US basically has two distinct economies now, the bankrupt “free market” economy that supports the needs of big business, and the war economy, which supports the needs of big business, shareholders and anyone else with money.

Seriously, the US is spending TRILLIONS of dollars on war and armaments and anyone lucky to be a part of it is getting rich.

And this war economy is steadfast and will be for decades. No fear of inflation or unions or other pesky factors. Just plain profits.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:48:22 +0000

It’s like the bombing of a tyrant in Libya, we are told it’s legal to bomb and try to hit people who are evil, then we hear that three children are killed, that slips past and we are told the hit on Gaddaffi is OK, but what about the hit on the children.

Bombs dropped on Iraq hits a school children are killed we are told thats just casualties it happens.

Today Bin Laden is killed we are told a young women who was a hostage was killed thats OK because we killed Bin Laden.

Life it seems is cheap in the world of tit for tat politics, the only winner of course is that smiling little shit Blair who has made a fortune.

By: sam jennings jr.

sam jennings jr. — Mon, 02 May 2011 14:10:22 +0000

While Bin Lain deserved to hang from the highest limb,this is no celebration. Our media outlets will ultimately make ink a martyr without trying. Pray for our troops, pray for our country.

By: tina

tina — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:08:07 +0000

I so totally and utterly agree. While not mourning the death of this man,the world just became more dangerous and certainly in no way did it become less dangerous with this public act of vengeance. So sad, so tragic a waste of an opportunity to end this unwinnable so-called GWOT.