Wow, what a terrific month it's been so far for REVENGE! I couldn't have planned it better had I planned it at all. I don't know what to say. I was a little bummed out when this issue (which was conceived well over a year ago) came out not very long after Kill Bill Volume 2 was released, but WOW. I just hope that you guys in the White House weren't doing this just for us. If you did, you really really really really shouldn't have. Really.Ok, so George Jr. got the revenge he always wanted when he finally found his arch tennis rival Saddam (from what I understand from watching Fox News). So,...we...celebrated. And if you know the military from their great Tailhook parties, you know that they celebrate BIG. We've been liberating people in Iraq left and right...sometimes right off this Earth. I suspect that next year we won't be seeing girls going wild in New Orleans, but we're going to be seeing some of those foxy Iraqi tatitas we've been hearing about flashing the cocaine fueled GGW cameramen.
So after all the sodomy, "celebration", and sodomy comitted by some of our more "lampshade headed" troops, SOME spoilsport native people have taken it upon themselves to try to ruin the party by cutting off an independant contactor's noggin. Interesting things seem to be coming out about the now divided individual who was unfortunate to be detained by Iraqi police, questioned by the CIA about his ties to a certain Zacarias Moussaoui,... Oh and did you know that the unfortunate guy who's head was taken from him has a father that the current administration has called an enemy of the United States? Very curious how all these things oddly come together. Not to mention that the guy who supposedly killed him is being indentified by the CIA as a Jordanian Al Queda leader even though all the translators have identified the voice coming from behind the
mask as clearly being Iraqi with no Jordanian accent. Hmm (say I as I scratch my head)...In all seriousness, I have seen the execution video. Curiosity and anger got the best of me. If you've been a long time reader from back in the days of the paper editions of No-Fi, you may remember that I reviewed those horrible Traces Of Death videos that were sent to us for review. Those are images I'll never get out of my head. So to avoid that to a degree, I purposely downloaded a lo-res version of the video and blew it up for further resolution loss. I just didn't really want to see it. In fact several times through the long winded speech given by the masked man standing above the soon-to-be victim, I actually stopped the video. Doing this actually made the quality worse. The sound became unsynced and I started hearing things that were several seconds before the pixelated images I was seeing. I heard the sharp screams by the man in the orange baggy clothes seconds before I saw the man who gave the speech pull out his knife and stab it into the back of Berg's neck. More screaming (both from the man and his killers who shouted "Allah!") and gurgling came as the boxy shapes fell upon the boxy orange man. You could make out that they were sawing his head off with the knife and the last image came in clearer than I would have liked as they held up his pixelated lifeless head with a bad lincoln beard to the camera.
It was sickening, but I had seen it before in those videos that I've since regretted seeing. I wished I hadn't made myself watch this...even if there was very little detail. The screams were enough. I guess in their speech they were saying that this was an act of revenge for the way that those retards and their superiors (some of these tortures were more "professional" than the average G.I. Joe would learn..except maybe Snake Eyes...that guy's a mystery!) were treating their Iraqi (and one Canadian - It's true!) guests in Saddam's former torture rooms. This brings me to me point of this issue.
Revenge is stupid. It can be portrayed pretty cool in movies, but the reality of Revenge is very empty. It didn't work with the Crips and Bloods , it isn't working in Isreal and Palistine, and it ain't gonna work by either side in Iraq. I acknowlege that some of the people they tortured were murderers themselves, (it has since been released that 80% or more of the prisoners had been held by mistake) but we're suppossed to be above that. Sure we all like electrical wires attached to our genitals sometimes and we all like short grinning women giving those same genitals the "thumbs up", but sometimes it can go to far...it is actually considered to be a form of "abuse". (By the way, when anyone in thise administration says "abuse" they actually mean "torture". Their dumb mistake.) So some dumb guys got understandably upset and instead of producing a biting documentary like Michael Moore would, they cut off some American guy's head. I'm going to go out on a limb and deem the actions of both sides to be "not so cool". Sorry....Segue or lack of it.
My real personal revenge story? I was beaten up by a bunch of idiots because my friend wore a kilt to a party. It was really bad and we were both left bloody and beaten. Oddly enough, minutes later, I was escorted inside the house of my friend whose party was crashed by these creeps. I was confronted by the back of the head of the main guy who started the fight with my friend. Panicing I looked around for a weapon in case he saw me. All I could see through the blood in my face was a kitchen mallet... And for a second I almost picked it up and swung it into the back of his skull. This would have certainly ended the party for the few who stuck around after the incident as well as taken his life or left him as physically retarted as his value system was.I just couldn't do it. He didn't see me. He ran away when the cops came.
I had a chance right there to take imediate revenge for his stupidity and he'll never know that I spared him. It would have taken less than two seconds, but I would have payed for it for the rest of my life...even if it was found to be an act to save my own life. Instead I helped send him and his big dumb friend to jail.
So I had a lot of friends back then (some in a local "beach area" gang that had members I was friends with for some reason) and they told me that they wanted to have a party of their own with these fellas as the guests of honor. My friend Sherry even volunteered her yard for the job. Nobody understood my point that if I helped them continue his, this would never end...at least it would never end well. Even my dad and his friend's wanted to track this guy down...nd my dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet...just don't make him mad. He gets "crazy eyes".
So there was a trail and they went to jail. To this day I'm dealing with injuries these guys gave me because my friend wore a kilt to a party. I heard later that the main guy got stabbed while trying to beat up a homeless man. Pure class all the way.Who knows what my life would be like had I or anyone else done something drastic. I like horror movies, but I hate violence. You can say I gave him his life by not smashing him with the hammer, but I was really protecting my own. Had it been on an actual battlefield like in Iraq (Oh, the two stories come together!), it might have been different. Violence and revenge are stupid. They are created from stupidity and perpetrated by stupid stupid people. George W. Bush is stupid and so was Saddam. Stupid stupid stupid. Of course, I guess I'm thinking of "bigger acts of revenge as being really bad, I suppose. Not little silly things like somebody put fish oil in your milk or something. Don't commit revenge, because you are just setting yourself up for more revenge one way or another. Kiss puppies instead. Do not hook electrodes to the genitals of puppies. A nice hug'll do. I'm a cat-person and I'll still hug a puppy.
This issue is about all sorts of revenge. Plus there is a nice interview with a nice new band called The Monolators. Check it out and tell us how you feel.
Yr. No-Fi "Pal",
Chris Beyond
