If you look at all of my comments, each time I reiterated that Lance Corporal Bernard had the right to die with dignity. His picture should not have been taken and used for ulterior propaganda purposes. Your side has long believed and practiced abuse of any and all options to get their anti-war, anti-military agenda promoted.

Since say you are a steadfast pacifist, and you value all human life, which you say makes you pro-life; why not add in that every individual has dignity and a right to have that dignity at the end of their lives, rather than have their death exploited. Your beliefs and agenda infringe on the rights of others. That’s what Socialism does, the collective mind over the individual.

As far as your time here at RS, the moderators monitor the site. If all you have to offer is your Socialist beliefs, you won’t be here long.

Right says: X is wrong.
Left says: Oh yeah, but what about when you did (insert something unrelated).

Somekd, address the issue. Is the action of the press in this case wrong or not?

Support your arguments.

However, the bigger point is, I feel like we aren’t all in agreement on if the picture should be shown if the family DID agree to let it be shown. I personally think that photos like this do need to be shown to show the true face of war. Yet, keeping in respect of people’s rights and privacies, this should only be done with families permissions.

Also – to a few people who commented back, I’ll have you know, that I am basically a socialist, I’m so far left … however – we will find common ground: I am PRO-LIFE. I DO believe life starts at conception, there for I DO believe you should show pictures, to show the TRUE atrocity of abortion. That’s why I brought it up – I wasn’t trying to be smug (ok… a little smug). I try to keep my views consistent – I am a steadfast pacifist and believe all life is valuable. (i.e. we shouldn’t be killing people in other countries, just like we shouldn’t be killing the unborn here.)

So that being said – I think the truth should be shown, no matter how ugly it may be – because people need to see what really happens. It is only ‘sensational’ journalism because it IS shocking – it is SUPPOSED to be.

What do you al think?
C

If the family was fine with the picture being shown, then it’s the press’ duty to show it. Show the true face of war.

What part of “The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.” did you fail to comprehend?

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=129417598434

And you do need to do some rereading. “If the family was fine with the picture being shown, then it’s the press’ duty to show it.” The diary and every comment on this diary clearly tells you that the family pleaded this not be done. And I guess I’ll repeat myself in case you don’t read anything else but this:

Lance Corporal Bernard had as much right to die with dignity as any human being, whether he was in uniform or not. To me, that is not open for debate.

And the world would be much better without a bunch of nuts holding 70 million Iranians hostage….

George Bush had every intention of invading Iran…
The left stopped that before Bush could finish the job.

I apologize to the family of this fallen soldier, to all current and former servicemen, to the author of this diary for inserting a mess, to those that pointed out my error, and to the RedState readership.