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brooklynite

(95,406 posts)

10. I watched it...

Reply to Go Vols (Original post)

Wed Feb 4, 2015, 12:50 AM

Feb 2015

...first of all, I believe one should know about someone who wants to kill you or at least destroy your way of life, and if they choose to show themselves, I don't have worry that what I'm seeing is a propaganda view by their enemies.

...second of all, every news person you're listening to has watched the video, and it useful to understand the context in which they're analyzing what happened.

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How many have watched the IS burning vid? [View all] Go Vols Feb 2015 OP

No need. MohRokTah Feb 2015 #1

Some things you cannot unsee.....and that would be too much for me. VanillaRhapsody Feb 2015 #2

I did not know we could but I have no desire to watch such barbaric actions. n/t. hrmjustin Feb 2015 #3

YMMV, but I will NOT watch/have not watched any of these sick snuff videos... hlthe2b Feb 2015 #4

I have no desire to watch a man die in agony marym625 Feb 2015 #5

I have never watched any of that sickness dissentient Feb 2015 #6

I posted it three places today Go Vols Feb 2015 #7

That seems like a sick thing for you to do. Frankly, ISIL wants the world to see and fear. Hekate Feb 2015 #11

Actually it is much less than 22 min Go Vols Feb 2015 #13

In my opinion 2naSalit Feb 2015 #19

The "perps" wanted me to ask Go Vols Feb 2015 #21

Apples and Oranges... 2naSalit Feb 2015 #22

People didn't like flag draped coffins Go Vols Feb 2015 #23

That would be unnecessary. Daemonaquila Feb 2015 #8

I have not bigwillq Feb 2015 #9

I watched it... brooklynite Feb 2015 #10

I had my mind set after the mass executions of young Iraqi men. joshcryer Feb 2015 #15

I can't look at that sort of thing TorchTheWitch Feb 2015 #12

I watched it melman Feb 2015 #14

What if every extreme group in the world made little videos CJCRANE Feb 2015 #16

I remember as a teenager they showed an American reporter being executed in another country. mucifer Feb 2015 #17

No. That's why they recorded his death, so people would watch and be horrified. herding cats Feb 2015 #18

+1 2naSalit Feb 2015 #20

No, I watched the beheading of Daniel Perle ... I don't ever want see something like that again! nt Raine Feb 2015 #24