Friday, October 03, 2014
Too bad, so sad
Over and over and over and fucking over, we see the following scenario: Some "ordinary hiker" or "ordinary bloke" manages to travel through 3 or 4 layers of Forbidden Countries, countries with ferocious border controls, countries that are firmly posted with No Trespassing signs by themselves and by the country where Ordinary Bloke lives. Everyone tells him not to go there. I seriously doubt that there's any ordinary way to get there. Travel agents won't send you there. Airlines don't fly there.
He goes there anyway. He discovers WHY all those No Trespassing signs were posted. He ends up dead or kidnapped.
And then we are expected to have wild sympathy for Ordinary Bloke. We are supposed to destroy the country where he trespassed.
No. No sympathy at all.
Latest example: Ordinary Bloke Alan Henning goes to Syria, gets right in the middle of the fighting for some insane reason, and gets beheaded.
Too bad, so sad, shoulda been a Turk.
Too bad, so sad, shoulda been a Turk.
Too bad, so sad, shoulda been a Turk.
Turkey doesn't INTENTIONALLY send its Ordinary Blokes into harm's way. When its diplomats, who are
paid and trained to be in harm's way, get kidnapped, Turkey ransoms them instead of forcing the kidnapper's sword.
The Ordinary Bloke crap stinks to hell. These stories are obviously fake from start to finish. The death may or may not be fake. If it's real, the blood is strictly on the hands of US/UK for sending Ordinary Bloke to be a sacrificial lamb.
If we're going to traffic in sympathy, here's where sympathy properly belongs. These people decided to get OUT of Syria. They probably won't need a lot of sympathy because Levantine Arabs usually do well in America.
Labels: Turkey, Zero Problems
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