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Richard Haut
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 Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:12 am Post subject: Why didn't Harry Whittington shoot back ? |
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It has to be the ultimate "no-no" in the USofA. Dick Cheney shoots a millionaire Attorney. Excuses about the "war on quail". That Dickie wasn't paying attention. That Dickie couldn't tell the difference between a tiny feathered creature and a Texan Attorney won't do. Five-deferrments Dickie might have had a better understanding of firearms if he had bothered to serve his country.
Whittington was helicoptered out and is in intensive care having been "peppered pretty good" according to the ranch owner who - unlike the ever-timid Cheney - did inform the press of what had happened.
Harry - sue the bastard. PLEASE sue the bastard.
But it is not just Harry who may be out gunning for Dickie and his mates. There has been a mild media kerfuffle about the United Nations demanding the immediate closure of America's Dachau at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon and Washington have responded with the same mealy-mouthed evasions as Dickie used about his gunfight.
But that is not the real story. Certainly the UN report demands the immediate closure of Guantanamo, but the important part is the second: that it also calls for the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
No wonder Dickie's trigger-finger got itchy.
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lekizz
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:02 am Post subject: |
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Another victim of American 'friendly fire'  |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: |
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| weak sauce for that editorial |
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:18 am Post subject: |
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What editorial ?
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:54 pm Post subject: |
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I am sorry to hear that Harry Whittington has had a heart attack - apparently the pellets have moved to his heart.
While Jeb Bush and Scott McClellan have a good laugh about the shooting of an American (and why not ? Dubya laughs at US war wounded), Cheney should thank his lucky stars that he is in a country as corrupt as America.
He has been fined seven dollars, and who would dare to charge him with anything ?
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Architorture
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| Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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| what would you charge him with? it was an accident...hunting accidents happen in the thousands every year.... and on top of that it wasn't cheney that broke etiquette it was the guy who got shot |
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:34 am Post subject: |
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"it wasn't cheney that broke etiquette it was the guy who got shot"
it is particularly ugly to blame the victim for one's own actions - Cheney pulled the trigger. It is his responsibility.
Cheney's Chappaquiddick.
what would I charge him with ? it was an accident - and whether his failure to control his own use of a gun requires any charges to be brought or not I do not know.
I hardly think that these minor charges are particularly important when the UN has already called for the charging of people, of whom Cheney is one, on matters which are far more serious.
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Architorture
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: |
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so why do you even care about this shooting incident outside of it being a potentially 'fun' issue to blabber on about if you are someone who hates dick cheney?
hunting accidents are barely a matter of local interest and most certainly should never gain the national, god forebid international media interests |
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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I do not think that the fact that the United Nations has called for the prosecution of some of your leading military and political figures can be considered to be blabbering on.
the hunting incident matters because it showed up Cheney's character (in a way which even seems to have nauseated many of his fellow Republicans).
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Architorture
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| i'm sorry but i don't understand why you think linking a stupid hunting accident which is a ridiculous media item with a long standing UN issue somehow advances the UN issue |
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You aren't proposing that news of hunting (and other firearm-related ?) accidents be suppressed, are you ?
The more that the public is reminded of the harm caused by willful use (I call it "play) with dangerous toys -- fireworks and other incendiaries, and firearms -- the more control the public will seek to have over the problem. One has only to observe the casual use of firearms in other countries -- automatic weapons discharged skyward in crowded public places, in "celebration" or otherwise, for instance -- to see that the danger, completely unnecessary and potentially deadly, to the public of these macho playthings is increasing.
To dismiss such unnecessary and irresposible acts as un-newsworthy is to contribute to the problem, in my view. Little boys, grow up !
(One didn't know whether to laugh or to cry, at the sight of Mr Whittington emerging from the hospital to tell the world that he regretted the discomfort -- to the family of Mr Cheney !)
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