That Japanese Hostage Was Killed

[MaryH]

Just saw it come across the wire.

This is all too much for me. It's just too sad.

[charlie]

1. Google news roundup

is full of articles saying it likely wasn't him:

http://news.google.com/news?q=japanese+hostage

Have they made a positive ID?

[MaryH]

3. I just saw it on the AP wire! Word came from Japan.

[charlie]

8. Here it is

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=6663457

I have no words for this all-too-routine horror anymore. Goddamn. Goddamn.

[MaryH]

2. He was 24 year's old. Had his whole life to live.

[nostamj]

5. and a huge percentage

of the 1100+ were 24 or younger.

and, then there's what, 20K Iraqi children?

[MaryH]

6. More like 40,000 Iraqi children - was reported by BBC

this morning. The rest were mostly women.

[patrice]

4. If you've ever personally seen anyone die, you always think

about that moment for any others: naive soldiers in the field, innocent citizens under piles of rubble, hostages being beheaded . . . .

I believe when you are robbed of your own death like this, there are negative effects upon the "mystical body".

[MaryH]

7. They really affect me!

It's like watching the pictures of the people in Dafur.

Sometimes I think it would have been a much better world if all the homo sapiens from 20,000 years ago just marched over the cliffs into the seas - like the lemmings.

We are not very nice creatures. And certainly not the crown of creation that the Right Wing thinks they are.

[patrice]

9. There is Hope. You and I are here. We are active, and

We are not going to go away!

Hare Krsna!