Someone please make the killing stop: Thoughts on Eugene Armstrong
My heart is with Eugene Armstrong’s family today, the man recently beheaded in Iraq. Goddamn I can’t take too much more of this psychological torture. On both sides. Enough already. Bush, stop whatever it is you’re doing. Not that it justifies this either, but damn. Iraqis, whoever you are…
There is some rumor that US are involved in this too. That would be the ultimate betrayal, but for now that is all just conjecture. I feel sick every time I think about the beheading. Especially knowing that the man was beheaded with a knife, not a sword. At least AOL said it was a knife. That means several passes back and forth. At least I imagine it so.
Even butchers use a cleaver for one clean shot. How awful. The thought just makes me want to touch my throat, just to make sure it’s not serrated. I empathize too much. Sometimes I feel like I can feel what others feel physically, like everyone in the world is my twin. A burden at times, but this made me extremely sensitive to the needs of others.
I just feel to bad for this guy’s family. I did not know them, he coulda been a mean person, but still I do not think he deserved that. PLEASE PLEASE someone just make this stop. It’s just too much. My friend Ran-Dee the “old school tapemaster” is going to Iraq with the Army and I am so frightened for him.
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