Thursday, May 13, 2004

Paid in Full

A reader offered Billy Beck a penny for his thoughts on the Nick Berg events in Iraq.  Billy has obliging complied, and his thoughts are worth more than the penny offered, in a post titled “To Start At The Beginning."

A couple of excerpts.

"At the hands of posing savages, putting on a show with some innocent person’s life, Nick Berg died screaming. At what? The only conceivable answer to me, having listened to it, would be the utter horror of being deliberately killed in such a primitive way by things looking like human beings, and what a complete contradiction of his life experience that might have represented.

Monsters really are real, after all."

Followed by this further into the post.

"It’s really important for everyone to realize that there are monsters alive in the world who would step right through the front door and dice them up right there on their couches, just like they did to Nick Berg, if they had an angle on the thing. That means that they’re going to sneak around with larger schemes in mind, which they’ll pop on us now & then, with the very same blood-curdling deliberation of a knife working its way through the shock of never having felt anything that catastrophically invasive of one’s own body just before the lights go out."

Posted by John Venlet on 05/13 at 03:15 AM
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