No More Hurting People~

[sheshe2]

Last edited Thu Jul 18, 2013, 03:18 AM - Edit history (1)

Dear Boston~

Boston Strong!

Edit to add~
The Rolling Stones Magazine. It is inappropriate. Write the story, however the picture of the suspect should not be on the cover.

Some people here don't think we have a reason to be upset by this. Really?

Were you here? Did you suffer from the pain and heartache of that day. Did you have a loved one that died, was injured or traumatized that day? I did. Did you know someone that worked in the medical tents preforming triage to save lives?

After the bombing there were some here that called the residents of Massachusetts sheeple. We were called that when police asked us to "Shelter in Place".

I ask you this~

No More Hurting People

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Right Wingers were passing around a video at the time....

It supposedly showed people using the bombing as an opportunity to loot a t shirt concession stand.

They LOVED IT. It reenforced their idea that civilization is fragile and people are savages that you need to hate and arm yourself.

[Enthusiast]

2. The Rolling Stones Magazine is perfectly appropriate.

It doesn't serve to glorify the bombing or the bomber.

I love the Rolling Stone. Where else can we read honest criticism of the Wall Street fraudsters®?

Cut Rolling Stone some slack. We have little enough remaining actual journalism as it is.

[Scuba]

4. +1

[GeorgeGist]

3. Boston Strong?

The Poutrage is sad.

[mstinamotorcity2]

5. It may be offensive to some.

Rolling Stone is a very reputable magazine. Other magazines have had controversial covers. And they have had Zimmerman on every newspaper cover and they haven't stopped selling or buying them. And we know he is a killer. And with the return of his gun he is just as Dangerous! I am sorry for the victims of the Boston Tragedy, but Freedom of the Press is still that. And their Freedom not to purchase is still that.

[Cha]

6. Mahalo for this song written from Martin Richard's

own precious plea, she~

Backstory on the musicians who wrote it..

Snip***

"Billed under the name Vapor feat. Marc Martel, the song was co-written with producer/musician Mark Heimermann and is available for free download with an option to pay-what-you-can to One Fund Boston. The video — featuring shots from the horrific tragedy that day and aftermath; as well as other noted world events from WWII to 9/11 — was directed by Michael Houlihan (watch below).

The two bombings — carried out by brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev — killed Krystle Campbell, 29; Lü Lingzi, 23; and Martin Richard, 8; and injured 264. Days later, MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, 26, was also killed in a shooting by the pair.

The title of the song “No More Hurting People” is taken from a sign Richard wrote on a sign last year after the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman, who is currently on trial in Florida. It was part of the child’s school assignment at his Neighborhood House charter school in Dorchester, MA. It also contained the word “peace,” a peace sign and two hearts.

Trayvon Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, released a statement to the media the day after the bombings.

“Our hearts are broken over the tragedy in Boston yesterday,” it read. “Our family sends our sincerest condolences to all of those who have been affected by this terrible situation. We especially would like to send a message to the family of eight year old, Martin Richard.

“We have come to understand that the peace sign that Martin is holding in a photo being, circulated throughout the media, was created in response to a lesson by his teacher about the death of our son and the issue of violence. From our family to yours', we are praying for you, thinking about you and will remember your son for the rest of our lives.

Martel wasn’t aware of the circumstances that prompted the little boy to write the “no more hurting people” sign. In fact, at the time, two weeks after the bombings, he wasn’t even aware of the photograph that had been circulating around world of Richard holding it. But he had been thinking of writing a song bigger than him."

http://www.samaritanmag.com/1564/queen-extravaganza-youtube-sensation-records-no-more-hurting-people-anthem

There are no words except Martin's~

[font color=blue]NO MORE HURTING PEOPLE[/font]

[sheshe2]

7. Oh Cha~

Thank you so much for the background story.

My god, I didn't know all that. It makes me cry for the loss of so many sweet people.

We wanted to keep it universal, but at the same time there is a nod in the lyrics to what actually inspired the song — the city’s child — and we talk about the sign that he’s holding and there’s a quote from President Obama the day after the bombing ‘Make no mistake we will run again,’” says Martel. “It is definitely a song that was specifically inspired for Boston, but we wanted it to be universal for any kind of tragedy or a time when people are hurting.

“I didn’t really think of why he [Martin Richard] had written it, but more how it was an ironic prophetic thing, his writing it post-mortem, and making his message — which was very important — breath new meaning that he probably didn’t originally intend but did at the same time.” We wanted to keep it universal, but at the same time there is a nod in the lyrics to what actually inspired the song — the city’s child — and we talk about the sign that he’s holding and there’s a quote from President Obama the day after the bombing ‘Make no mistake we will run again,’” says Martel. “It is definitely a song that was specifically inspired for Boston, but we wanted it to be universal for any kind of tragedy or a time when people are hurting. “I didn’t really think of why he [Martin Richard] had written it, but more how it was an ironic prophetic thing, his writing it post-mortem, and making his message — which was very important — breath new meaning that he probably didn’t originally intend but did at the same time.”

- See more at: http://www.samaritanmag.com/1564/queen-extravaganza-youtube-sensation-records-no-more-hurting-people-anthem#sthash.kw8NEfFW.dpuf

So yes, enough is enough~

No More Hurting People

[Cha]

8. It is, she! thank you so much

for finding the song, "No More Hurting People". Little Martin("the city's child&quot and his compelling message lives on in song.

[font color=blue]For All Those Who Have Been Hurt By People~[/font]

[ananda]

9. That picture bothered me a lot.

I would never buy that magazine.

I wonder how they got Dzhokar to look that way?
I kept thinking of what the media does to people
to make them look good. It's as though there is
an obsessive looks meme operating everywhere.

Why make Dzhokar tantamount to a sexed up,
airbrushed, cosmeticized celebrity or superstar?

It makes me think of the media as some sort of
image creation machine when all I want is either
news or some kind of intelligent reporting or
opinionating based on good, human thinking.

So, the question of how Dzhokar came to become
what he became is a good one. It definitely needs
examining and answering. But it should be done
in a context that is both considerate of the community
he violated and the lives he destroyed, and considerate
of the way that community as part of our society as a
whole operates within a mindset, pervasive throughout
America and a globalized world, which plays a role in
economic and military oppression that also itself destroys
lives and violates communities.

[sheshe2]

11. ananda~

Thank you for saying that.

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

[Mojorabbit]

12. The photo illustrates the theme of the article

which seems to be what turns an ordinary young man into someone who does monstrous things. It is a good question and a good theme for an article. I would like to know the answer myself and I will buy the mag.