Website review: Casualty of Porn : Rolling Stone
realunderdog discovered this in Politics
•17 reviews since Jan 5, 2008
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realunderdog discovered 6 months ago- From the page: ""Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them.""
- DickBeldin rated 6 months ago
- What's important to remember is that death is forever, sex only lasts a few minutes.
- alexistwyman rated 6 months ago
- I hate censorship. And I'll vote victim, as opposed to villian. I could care less about the chicks whose men put their photographs on the site. I care that soldiers in Iraq are the only ones who have to look at the grotesqueness of war. I care that the Pentagon censors such photographs and we're left blissfully unaware. I'll requote what's already been quoted..."Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them."
- greenchair rated 6 months ago
- I always get my Iraq War news from Rolling Stone - an impeccable source. Pics or it didn't happen.
- jadedtales rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "He's not the only one raising this question. When news of the photos first broke, Arsalan Iftikhar of the Council on American-Islamic Relations sent a letter to Donald Rumsfeld demanding an investigation. Iftikhar now believes Wilson's arrest was a "politically motivated" solution. "It wouldn't surprise me," he says, "if the charges were there to deflect from the issue at hand: the violence suffered by the Iraqi people."" Circles within circles here... my main question is regarding the original purpose of the site - were the pics of the women uploaded with their knowledge and permission? If not, then I think the site needed to be taken down, but otherwise I can't fathom why the guy was arrested.
- droe82 rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "There's little question that the site is disturbing. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd calls it 'so perverse and outrageous and unconscionable, I believe it would have shocked the conscience of the most liberal people in the United States.' But who really engineered the arrest: local authorities or those in the highest reaches of government?"
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd seems to believe that "unconscionable" means "what I think that the majority of people I know and I would find distasteful." Scary that someone in his position of authority might be so narcissistic and amoral. Thumbs down for the nonsequitur there at the end of that paragraph and for never explaining whether the subjects of the supposedly pretty graphic sexual material which it was explained that they, themselves, didn't upload gave their permission to be uploaded and displayed to the entire universe's dicks. Or something. How does that work out grammatically? I don't even know. I don't have no time but not to throw a whole lot of semantically loaded shit out there and hope that you ain't going to not put it together syntactically wrong or not. - From the page: "There's little question that the site is disturbing. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd calls it 'so perverse and outrageous and unconscionable, I believe it would have shocked the conscience of the most liberal people in the United States.' But who really engineered the arrest: local authorities or those in the highest reaches of government?"
- corporaterock rated 6 months ago
- If they're arresting the guy for the Iraq pictures then that's just effed up. The government wants the people dead but the same government wants to arrest someone for showing pictures of those people? That's silly.
- Serendipity7 rated 6 months ago
- Makes you stop and think about our rights..
- stevedtrm rated 6 months ago
- The military goes to extreme lengths to keep the Iraq war named exactly that.
When the worlds most sophisticated trillion dollar military goes into a nation defended by rocket launchers and IEDs to impose its will, it isnt a war. Its simply a massacre. And they'll shoot, imprison and silence anyone who can demonstrate it.
From the page: "Though Wilson says he was shocked when he first saw the photos, he empathized with the soldiers' desire to show the realities of service. Rather than censoring the images, he created a separate forum for them, quoting a line from Life, when the magazine published war-dead photos during the Spanish Civil War: "Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men refuse to look at them."" - The military goes to extreme lengths to keep the Iraq war named exactly that.
- slocum77a rated 6 months ago
- great. a pornographer gets in deep shit for something that the more respectable, middle-of-the-road web and news sites wouldn't do because they're cowards.
