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Sunday, September 21, 2025

Historian Cringes, I Crack A Wry Smile - (Hiding the visual horror of killing from our sight guarantees its acceptance and continuity. - CL)

 In ages long past men went to war.  The King typically mounted his horse, which of course had the best armor since he had the most money, and led the charge.  Yes, he had the best armor but he had an eye slit to be able to see and a skilled archer might get him.  Never mind that if you found yourself trapped, taken by surprise or overwhelmed on a numerical basis neither the armor or the best horse was worth much.  None of the men who prosecuted or defended such a war ever escaped the raw horror of killing associated with it; they saw their friends and fellow men die, and when they lost they usually wound up watching their loved ones die along with them as well.  There was no escaping the arrow piercing a body or a sword being run through you or someone else next to you, or the screams of your wife and children being burned alive in their homes when the opposing army torched your village.

 
How do we resolve legitimate questions such as this if we hide the horror of the criminal act from the people?  Yes, the shock of the event and the nightmares it produces if you watch it not only should not be hidden it must not because it is precisely that horror becoming ingrained into the hearts and minds of the public which leads people to make perfectly-reasonable demands such as forcing those who set up a "security theater" and then failed to enforce it to eat the consequences as accessories before the fact to each and every crime they directly enable.

Those doing the hiding clearly have an interest in you not asking, nor we as the citizens answering and thus demanding change and accountability in response to those events.

I do not want wide exposure of these events with every bit of it in the public view because they're gory and shocking.

I want them exposed in vivid, no-censorship detail for the precise reason that the actions and inactions of all before, during and after the event are in fact part of what each and every member of society should and indeed must take into account when setting forward their personal, social, political and judicial responses to said events.