disturbing but necessary
Apr. 14th, 2005 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primroseburrowsOh, wow.
Watch this video, and then tell me the US shouldn't sign a treaty supporting a global ban on landmines (some disturbing imagery, but nothing graphic).
Apparently the Major Networks are staying away from this video in droves, which figures, 'cause it makes Americans consider that our families can die violently just like everyone else. I thought we learned that particular lesson some three and a half years ago. Apparently not.:/
Watch this video, and then tell me the US shouldn't sign a treaty supporting a global ban on landmines (some disturbing imagery, but nothing graphic).
Apparently the Major Networks are staying away from this video in droves, which figures, 'cause it makes Americans consider that our families can die violently just like everyone else. I thought we learned that particular lesson some three and a half years ago. Apparently not.:/
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Date: 2005-04-15 12:54 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 12:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 04:32 am (UTC)The excuses they give here is that we have a very long, very deserted border to, erm, next country and so few people to guard it and that's why we apparently need landmines (yeah, right). The other reason (which I find more believable) is that finding and digging up the existing gazillion landmines around the border would be a twenty years task. Because they've been putting landmines there as long as there have been landmines...
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Date: 2005-04-15 05:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-15 11:05 am (UTC)