March 13th, 2013 America, You Must Not Look Away! The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. ...he was mutilated and murdered at the age of fourteen. He was found with part of a cotton gin tied around his neck with a string of barbed wire. His killers, two white men, had shot him in the head before they dumped him in the river. His mother insisted on an open casket... She wanted photographers to take pictures of her mutilated son and publish them. The photo of Emmett Till appeared in newspapers and magazines across the nation. "I just wanted the world to see," she said. In March of 1965, the police of Selma, Alabama, brutally beat, hosed and tear-gassed a group of African Americans for simply trying to cross a bridge during a protest march. The nation was shocked by images of blacks viciously maimed and injured. So, too, was the President. In March, 1968, U.S. soldiers massacred 500 civilians at My Lai in Vietnam. A year and a half later, the world finally saw the photographs of mounds of dead peasants covered in blood, a terrified toddler seconds before he was gunned down, and a woman with her brains literally blown out of her head. (These photos would join other Vietnam War photos, including a naked girl burned by napalm running down the road, and a South Vietnamese general walking up to a handcuffed suspect, taking out his handgun, and blowing the guy's brains out on the NBC Nightly News.) With this avalanche of horrid images, the American public turned against the Vietnam War. Our realization of what we were capable of rattled us so deeply it became very hard for future presidents (until George W. Bush) to outright invade a sovereign nation. Bush was able to pull it off because his handlers, Misters Cheney and Rumsfeld, knew that the most important thing to do from the get-go was to control the images of the war, to guarantee that nothing like a My Lai-style photograph ever appeared in the U.S. press. And that is why you never see a picture any more of the kind of death and destruction that might make you get up off your couch and run out of the house screaming bloody murder at those responsible for these atrocities. That is why now, after the children's massacre in Newtown, the absolute last thing the National Rifle Association wants out there in the public domain is ANY images of what happened that tragic day. We don't know exactly what those Newtown photographs show. But I want you yes, you, the person reading this right now to think about what we do know: The six-year and seven-year-old children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School were each hit up to eleven times by a Bushmaster AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Read on here: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/america-you-must-not-look-away-how-finish-nra ------------------ Michael thinks Americans need to see the true gruesome images of these murdered children in order to go after their politicians to change the 2nd Amendment. I ask, who hasn't seen the gruesome Abu Ghraib pictures? Did anything change? I see no change. If it was the blacks in the past, it is now the Muslims who are regarded as 3/5 humans. They get labeled as terrorists and then hunted and tortured and killed by Americans. It still goes on to this day. Yet, when we Canadians visit them during our holidays they are the nicest and friendliest people. Go figure!
