Rebel commander known as Gen. Butt Naked admits killing thousands

[Snork]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22765054/

Wtf.....

[Hellblazer]

That is one of the weirdest headlines I think we'll ever see.

[Ächilles]

The headline might be funny, but the issue at hand is far from it.

I wouldn't say I'm really into politics, as admittedly, while I understand politics extremely well, I don't much follow them aside from war. On that note, I follow wars very closely. I'm a peace advocate, and I take these things to heart. I write a lot, and have been published. Mostly everything I publish is my effort at making changes. Small as they may be, it's an effort nonetheless.

Liberia is a mess. I've seen a lot of the snuff films mentioned in this article. Small girls being raped, young boys executing men, absolutely carnal pandemonium erupting on the streets. I've even seen a video of a family of four guys - a dad and his three sons - eating dinner outside at a collapsible table with a human skull in the middle; acting as if there was nothing wrong with it.

But the thing I've seen in the videos that effected me the most was actually just a man standing. There were people rioting and looting all around him. There were men standing near him shooting rifles off into the distance at other men. Bullets were whizzing by his head. He was just standing there, with an old assault rifle hanging limply from his hand, and he was staring off into nothing. He just had this thousand yard stare in his eyes, one that just by looking at, you know all the violence he had known had stripped away everything about him. He wasn't a man anymore - he wasn't really anything anymore.

[R G]

The headline might be funny, but the issue at hand is far from it.

I wouldn't say I'm really into politics, as admittedly, while I understand politics extremely well, I don't much follow them aside from war. On that note, I follow wars very closely. I'm a peace advocate, and I take these things to heart. I write a lot, and have been published. Mostly everything I publish is my effort at making changes. Small as they may be, it's an effort nonetheless.

Liberia is a mess. I've seen a lot of the snuff films mentioned in this article. Small girls being raped, young boys executing men, absolutely carnal pandemonium erupting on the streets. I've even seen a video of a family of four guys - a dad and his three sons - eating dinner outside at a collapsible table with a human skull in the middle; acting as if there was nothing wrong with it.

But the thing I've seen in the videos that effected me the most was actually just a man standing. There were people rioting and looting all around him. There were men standing near him shooting rifles off into the distance at other men. Bullets were whizzing by his head. He was just standing there, with an old assault rifle hanging limply from his hand, and he was staring off into nothing. He just had this thousand yard stare in his eyes, one that just by looking at, you know all the violence he had known had stripped away everything about him. He wasn't a man anymore - he wasn't really anything anymore.


With all due respect I don't see how you actually sit and view snuff films...I mean that is just F**ked up!

Sure people watch films in the theathers that depict violence everyday, but there is a big difference.

The man with the thousand yard stare decription is very thought provoking though...I would really like to see that.

[Ächilles]

I write for a political magazine, so naturally I've been exposed to these things. It's not like I kick back and watch them in my room alone for fun.