HUMAN WASTE UNCENSORED

America’s Dissociative Amnesia
by Malik Isasis


What if the killing spree in Blacksburg, Virginia happened every single day for four years in this country? What would the response be? In the Occupation of Iraq, an average of 100 violent deaths by gunshot or explosion occurs each day. Where is the corporate media’s outrage? Where is the country’s outrage? Where is the international community’s outrage?

The killing spree in Blacksburg, Virginia is a tragedy, but there is no sense of perspective in this country. Violence and destruction is the way our government solves its problems, so why are we surprised when individuals choose to use violence as a way to cope with their emotional ills? Violence in this country is a well-compartmentalized fetish. The corporate media with its wall-to-wall coverage has already scored music and branded the Virginia Tech killing spree as The Massacre at Virginia Tech. The corporate media will cover the incident ad nauseum without adding anything substantive to the conversation about America's cultural violence. The incident will just end up exploited by politicians and the corporate media.

Over the last seven years, the corporate media and the America people cheered Bush on as he used the United States military to drop cluster bombs, use white phosphorus munitions, and gun ships to rip into and pulverize the human flesh of civilians in Iraq.

A recent report by the Iraqi Ministry of Health showed that 70% of Iraqi children are suffering from trauma—bedwetting and stuttering caused by the occupation and insurgency.

Many Iraqi children have to pass dead bodies on the street as they walk to school in the morning, according to a separate report last week by the International Red Cross. Others have seen relatives killed or have been injured in mortar or bomb attacks.

Iraq has lost approximately 7% of its population due to mass exodus to Syira and Jordon. Approximately half of 34,000 doctors in the country has fled.

The Independent reported in February 2007:

They flee because they fear for their lives. Some 3,000 Iraqis are being killed every month according to the UN. Most come from Baghdad and the centre of the country, but all of Iraq outside the three Kurdish provinces in the north is extremely violent. A detailed survey by the International Organisation for Migration on displacement within Iraq said that most people move after direct threats to their lives: "These threats take the form of abductions; assassinations of individuals or their families."

Occupation Uncensored

If the Democrats and Republicans have the capacity to show compassion for the 33 innocent victims of Blacksburg, Virginia, they should show an equal amount of compassion for the disturbing rate of loss and indignity of the Iraqi people. They grieve killing sprees, daily.

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