You are herecontent / CIA Video of Missionary Plane Shootdown - Mother & Child Killed
CIA Video of Missionary Plane Shootdown - Mother & Child Killed
- Login or register to post comments
-

- Email this page
- Printer-friendly version
formerly AfterDowningStreet
You are herecontent / CIA Video of Missionary Plane Shootdown - Mother & Child Killed
I appreciate this video for the evidence that it is, but wonder how the husband will feel if he sees this and don't think I'd want to be in his shoes viewing this. What a reminder, it'd be. It's not bad enough to be reminded that your govt is complicit in the killing of your wife and child, but to also see the shoot-down surely wouldn't be easy to take.
An article, like for an apology by the CIA and including an explanation of how the event happened based on gross human error, as well as phony (and worse) drug war bs politics, could be sufficient. At least it wouldn't show the shoot-down of an airplane of wholly innocent persons. I'm not related at all to any of the persons who were on that plane and the video, what it reveals, angers me, so I wouldn't want to be closely related to anyone who was on that plane.
And I don't like the anti-international law, ..., Peruvian government and proxy government of the elites of the USA. It's a govt that has clearly stated that it will not extradite internationally wanted criminals; iow, declaring that it's a safe harbor for people guilty of serious crimes, international and national, though not national crimes committed in Peru. So knowing this about the govt of Peru makes the video about this shoot-down of a plane carrying only innocent people is even more angering than it would be if the Peruvian govt was governed by honourable leaders.
The shoot-down is nevertheless a gross and criminal human error. As soon as the pilot of the plane that was shot down responded as he did, then the shoot-down should've been immediately called off; but, then, maybe there's no technoligical way to perform such immediate halts or stand-downs. If there isn't, then I will guess that there is and certainly should be a technological way of doing this; or else shoot-downs of planes that aren't on officially declared routes shouldn't be shot down at all, ever.
And the whole drug war of the U.S. is bs anyway. The U.S. is responsible for the major increase in poppy and heroin production in Afghanistan, today, after the Taliban, working with the UN, eradicated 90% or more of this; and CIA (ops people), FBI, DEA, likely enough USAID, since it's part of the "gang", and so on, have been involved in international drug trafficking, and even some members or former members of the U.S. Congress and/or Senate were caught smuggling cocaine into the U.S., in Florida, I believe one report stated. And the drugs and consuming them, as well as cultivating and selling them, isn't really a crime, anyway; it's a health concern or issue. The only time crime is involved is when violence is used. Non-violently producing and cultivating, and selling, as well as consuming, is [not] criminal, it's not immoral; it's only a health issue and isn't always consumed to the point of becoming an issue, at all.
The phony drug war and its makers or leaders, and continuers, are the worst criminals of all in all of this subject area. And the leaders who aren't criminally, per se, doing this, nevertheless are doing it in bigotted, narrow-minded, ... and fascist terms, and to commit injustices on these bases is not a question of mere mistakes; it's criminal negligence, at least. In that case, prosecution of the leaders of this bs perhaps shouldn't be prosecuted and convicted of crimes, unless their orders relate to killings and other real crimes against humanity, but they definitely need to be corrected; and if they refuse to correct themselves, then they could and probably should be prosecuted. After all, no ethical law can be supportive of tyrannical, fascist, ... political leadership; especially not when it's about international relations, say.
In any case, I wouldn't want to be the husband of the woman and father of the child killed in this shoot-down, and wouldn't like to be someone who was close to the pilot, while viewing this video footage. It's good footage and recording, but I'm not someone who was close to any of these people who were killed, either.
I was rendered depressed seeing footage of people jumping from very high floors in the or one of the WTC towers on 9-11, it caused rage and sadness, for me, and I wasn't related to any of these people; knew none of them, let alone knowing any of them well and loving them. I wouldn't want to be someone who was close to these people who jumped into thin air from serious heights. (And my anger wasn't at Al Qa'ida, for I never believed more than little from the Bush Jr, except when he told the truth, like when he said the Taliban had had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks, f.e. If you don't recall him having said that, then I don't forget it and apparently won't; it seems to be permanent memory.)
Kill the damn phony drug war.
Mike Corbeil
This was just a tough call. It was already published on ABC so it has received wide media dissemination, and not to publish would be shielding the CIA from responsibility for its role in this event. Media self-censoring is a slippery slope, especially since someone will find something objectionable about everything. Individuals remain responsible for what they read and view, just as in "turn off the TV."
Nonetheless, it is notable that the Catsouras family recently won their court case against the California Highway Patrol so they can now sue for spreading the photos of their daughter's decapitated, dismembered body.