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"Innocent people never deserve to die for their country or because of 
their country.

"Yet, now the realities of airstrikes and mass destruction has 
returned to the US. Newscasters, politicians and other shapers of 
public opinion all chorus that none of them have ever seen such 
things, yet many people around the world have this kind of 
devastation in recent memory and in fact have suffered on a far 
deeper and greater level. This is the one thing that has to be 
remembered above all in this situation, that airstrikes and murder 
are nothing new and that although all the victims before these have 
been dehumanized in the US media, people around the world have been 
suffering, often at the hands of the US military, for many years.

"We are quite sad that civilians are killed in incidents like this. 
We have been sad for years. We've been mourning Chechens and 
Palestinians massacred for resisting or just for existing, we've been 
mourning the victims of wars around the world, of repression and 
political displacement.

"The so-called terrorists, they surely must feel that they, their 
people or compatriots have been victimized by the US, and it's 
probably true. They probably have no hope at all that the US military 
will stop doing this, in particular since it arrogantly and 
inhumanely refuses to address many complaints about the plight of the 
Palestinians and the US role in supporting their suffering. And for 
these policy choices, who knows how many innocent american (and 
probably other) people have just lost their lives, victims to US 
foreign policy. (Perhaps also victims to a religious-fanatic reaction 
against globalization.) The State will be calling for terrorist 
blood, but it will continue to enact its murderous and socially 
irresponsible policies without accepting moral responsibility for 
their repercussions.

"The State acts with or without the consent of the people but it 
cannot exist and act in such ways without the active consent of the 
people or without their passive apathy. The American populace to a 
large extent shares responsibility for the deaths of their 
compatriots, as they share responsibility for all deaths carried out 
by or in the interests of the US military. The americans en-masse 
have given up their citizenship in the real sense of the word; they 
act unconcerned about even the most alarming of political events, 
except when it hits them at home. Then they act indignant when the 
actions of their State has unwanted repercussions. But this is not 
civic responsibility, this is not global citizenship. Such a thing 
only starts to happen when people think about the consequences of the 
State's actions as they would think about the consequence of their 
own. That is, something real, something lived, something that has its 
consequences and something that each person should take 
responsibility for.

"... The question in the end is a very simple one: how many people 
have to die before people act decisively to take power away from the 
murderers? And how many people have to die before the americans 
realize that they are people not at all different than they? Now the 
americans may feel pain that they are losing "some of their own", but 
as human beings, [we've] been losing too many of our own for too many 
senseless reasons for years."

- Laure Akai


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