I'd be a little P.O'D too, in fact, I AM!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:10 pm
Ya know, society today lives, craves and has the desire for blood and gore, WHY? I don't get it, it is because our own lives are boring, does society like to see people suffer? I don't get it!
Piestewa family assails video airing
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Showing dying soldier on television called 'domestic terrorism'
Mark Shaffer
Republic Flagstaff Bureau
Jan. 1, 2004 12:00 AM
FLAGSTAFF - Family members of slain soldier Lori Piestewa lashed out at the media Wednesday for practicing "domestic terrorism" by televising video of the badly wounded Piestewa in an Iraqi hospital bed shortly before her death.
"This terrorism was not from any foreign group wishing to harm the United States, but from our own people wanting to make a quick buck off the misfortune of two young women," a prepared statement from the Piestewa family said of NBC's decision to air the video on its Nightly News on Tuesday. Several cable channels picked it up, but local affiliate Channel 12 (KPNX) decided not to air the footage.
The video shows a gravely wounded and unresponsive Jessica Lynch in a hospital bed next to Piestewa in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, where the Army's 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23. Piestewa is shown with eyes shut and swollen and with a bandage around her head. She licks her lips as someone adjusts her head so the photographer can get a better shot of her.
"We would guess that congratulations are in order," the Piestewa family's statement said sarcastically. "The media has again successfully created a sense of fear, anxiety and hurt among the family and friends of those who loved and continue to love Lori Piestewa."
Piestewa's family has attended many memorial services and pro-military gatherings throughout the nation since Lori's death. But the statement contained some pointed anti-war criticisms of the Bush administration and military. The statement said the family hopes all top government officials get a copy of "Lori dying in agony so that they realize from the comfort of their homes that war is not the only option."
The Piestewa family also wants a copy of the tape in the hands of legislators who supported the war "because they had to make sure someone (paid) for 9/11."
The strongest criticisms were saved for commanders at Fort Bliss, Texas, where Piestewa and Lynch were stationed before their deployment to the Middle East. Each of the commanders should receive a copy of the tape "so they'll never again make the same mistake . . . and, if by chance they do, we hope they won't leave them behind to die the painful death Lori endured."
Dennis
Piestewa family assails video airing
advertisement
Showing dying soldier on television called 'domestic terrorism'
Mark Shaffer
Republic Flagstaff Bureau
Jan. 1, 2004 12:00 AM
FLAGSTAFF - Family members of slain soldier Lori Piestewa lashed out at the media Wednesday for practicing "domestic terrorism" by televising video of the badly wounded Piestewa in an Iraqi hospital bed shortly before her death.
"This terrorism was not from any foreign group wishing to harm the United States, but from our own people wanting to make a quick buck off the misfortune of two young women," a prepared statement from the Piestewa family said of NBC's decision to air the video on its Nightly News on Tuesday. Several cable channels picked it up, but local affiliate Channel 12 (KPNX) decided not to air the footage.
The video shows a gravely wounded and unresponsive Jessica Lynch in a hospital bed next to Piestewa in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, where the Army's 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed March 23. Piestewa is shown with eyes shut and swollen and with a bandage around her head. She licks her lips as someone adjusts her head so the photographer can get a better shot of her.
"We would guess that congratulations are in order," the Piestewa family's statement said sarcastically. "The media has again successfully created a sense of fear, anxiety and hurt among the family and friends of those who loved and continue to love Lori Piestewa."
Piestewa's family has attended many memorial services and pro-military gatherings throughout the nation since Lori's death. But the statement contained some pointed anti-war criticisms of the Bush administration and military. The statement said the family hopes all top government officials get a copy of "Lori dying in agony so that they realize from the comfort of their homes that war is not the only option."
The Piestewa family also wants a copy of the tape in the hands of legislators who supported the war "because they had to make sure someone (paid) for 9/11."
The strongest criticisms were saved for commanders at Fort Bliss, Texas, where Piestewa and Lynch were stationed before their deployment to the Middle East. Each of the commanders should receive a copy of the tape "so they'll never again make the same mistake . . . and, if by chance they do, we hope they won't leave them behind to die the painful death Lori endured."
Dennis
