This is what it's all about. When I was in college, the ministers in the Presbyterian churches in Tulsa, Oklahom would preach about how the news always spoke of American dead and that others were less important and that this was wrong! In a nation that parades religion around as a requirement for office, there is bloody little listening to it.
Thank you Natalia for this statement. In 1994 I directed a Gypsy Carmen that was about the Gypsy Holocaust during WWII [at LaMama theater here in New York City]. I kept a picture of bodies at the base of a waterfall in Rwanda in the front of my score, floating like logs, to remind me that it was and would continue in the fabric of humanity. Later it would be a child in Iraq during the American Master's Arts Festival. From Vietnam, and my friend Kim Phuc running down the road screaming from the Napalm, to the present time when the agent orange still ravages the newborns of Vietnam we seem stuck in a pattern of horror unbelieved and unimagined. When America invaded Iraq, Kim sat in the corner of a Catskill mountain cabin and said "I can't believe they're doing it again" as she wept bitterly. That was the last time I saw Kim. Thank you again Mike and Natalia for your truth. REH It makes blood boil for anyone who has toiled through the reports of collateral damage of about 5 million Iraqis, which includes over one million dead, 1million plus widows, and 4.5 million displaced. No infrastructure, little food or potable water, and depleted uranium soil for half a million years to come. The innocents arrested and tortured, whose numbers so far outweigh the numbers killed on 9/11 by non-Iraqis, that one has no choice but to conclude the US doesn't give a damn about collateral damage. Nor do the sick soldiers who execute these atrocities, nor do any of the Americans who supported this war. No one is so stupid as to think that the loss was entirely American, and where there remains such posturing, I'm sure it could be permanently scared out of them with a little bit of America's own water-boarding treatments. America and her government had this coming, for the sake of accountability, just as all other potentially damaging leaks change the playing field to one of greater need for responsible actions. The internet is being used responsibly where governments, military and industry are trying to keep secret their blundering and misguided dealings. Media, most often controlled, is looking bad and irresponsible too, and rightly so. Just for Iraq alone they should have lost their jobs. And still, having today realized how swept up they became in Bush's bandwagon to wealth, they would never have the nerve to do what Assange did in any format. If not Assange, then who? Neither government, military nor Multi-National would ever risk such openness because integrity is what the wage earners are supposed to possess, not the world leaders. Certainly not those in media we hope will at least expose profit in deceit. Natalia
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