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Well T, here's my take. Just FYI, in my old age, I catch myself crying at a lot of things.

I think it was a poorly done home movie. I mean if you want to instill fear in American's, damn, at least do a good job. There was hardly any blood, and no spewing at all. I think the noises you heard were actually the goobers in black. Come to think of it, I couldn't understand any of the jibberish and the moans sounded similar in tone. The poor man didn't wince, well if you could have even seen that due to the poor quality. His body didn't exhibit any tell tale death signs at all. No jerking, no last breathe type things at all.

I may be grasping at straws from thin air, but I think this was more a staged act by terrorists. I believe the man was dead for several weeks now and this occured soon after his death.

I have seen it a couple times, and I still think, even before critics commented, that the guy was dead beforehand.

I would also like to add that my heart goes out to his family, as I did try to think what that would be like to see my son treated that way, whether dead or alive.

I am still a bit torn on where to place thoughts though. Will come back later if I am still awake. :)

I think when you're younger empathy sometimes reads as weakness, like identifying with someone else would interfere in some way with your personality development instead of enhancing it. The feeling of invincibility is actually one of the characteristics of psychological teen-dom. Funny that it comes hard on the heels of logical reasoning.

*shrug* I can't even legaly drink yet and I opted to never view the video.

It's not an age thing it's a class thing

Ha! Your mom still thinks you're an innocent, Jo! Nothing like a pair of rose colored glasses, eh? Well, God bless her and every other mom who thinks their own hellish progeny are sweet little angels.

Totem

I never bothered watching it. Someone sent me a video clip about 6 months ago of someone cutting some dudes head off with a big knife. I didn't even know what it was till I started watching it. I kept having flash-backs for about a month afterwards, I'd be sitting there doing nothing in particular and it would suddenly pop in my head.

After that, I didn't see the need to watch this one.

Or he was just sedated. What I do know is that there's an edit between when they grab him by the head and pull him to the floor and when they start cutting.

You can easily discern the edit because the timer on the heads up from the video camera changes from 2:44:03 to 13:44:04. Someone forgot to switch from 24 hour time back to 12 hour time when they edited it.