BBM. I have differing views of this than you. This is said with all respect to you and your views.
Not letting victims name their attacker is demeaning, demoralizing and wrong. It makes me think of someone who has been raped and then not listened to, maybe just acknowledging that yes they were raped, but we don't want to know who it was or why it happened. It's not important.
It's important to the victim to be able to put names and faces and the true facts out there.
Not naming the enemy and not acknowledging why the enemy did it is wrong on many levels ....for one thing it is like an ostrich hiding it's head in the sand. If I can't see it, it's not real. It IS real, and it's still there even if you can't see it now that your head is in the sand. Actually, it makes it much easier to chop off that ostrich's head now. It doesn't change anything if you hold your hands over your ears chanting I can't hear I can't hear you you over and over again. You many NOT hear what they said, but it was still said. Denying it and not naming it does not change what it really is.
Another problem I have with this is I don't need the government to decide what I should know and think. I'm fairly well educated, can read all of the facts and then reach conclusions of my own. I don't have to be told what to think, or just be fed someone else's opinions. Have you read Fahrenheit 451? I had to read it in college. It's a novel about the future in which books are illegal to own. The government decided that books are dangerous because then people learn about things they don't want them to know, and the government wanted to control what people learned and thought. Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which paper burns. Anyway..... today when I watched that press conference I thought about that book. I felt manipulated. I thought about how once upon a time journalists and anchors were impartial and unbiased and actually gave you ALL of the information so you could draw your own conclusions, and not skew and slant things so you only hear what they want you to hear.
And lastly, I don't think that the enemy is downtrodden and feeling cheated by a country that won't utter those words, or the fact that the 911 calls were redacted. On the contrary, I think they love it. It probably confirms their belief we are weak, inferior, scared and that is not going to turn things around. I think they are laughing at us and our government. In fact, if I were in a group of people that were terrorizing and killing another group, and I knew that the group I was doing this to knew it was us and why we did it and yet wouldn't name us or our reasons or really try to stop us, and actually went to far as to say oh it's just road rage or work violence or a hate crime, I think I would be feeling powerful, invincible and unstoppable and I would be thinking wow what weaklings.
This is not a kid that wants attention and because they didn't get any they are going for negative attention. Our president refusing to let anyone say radical Islamism is not going to make them pack up their toys and go home. IMO.
So exactly how, in your opinion, are we going to turn this around by our president, government and people refusing to admit who this enemy is, and why the shooter did what he did? In all respect. I am curious.
