{"id":753,"date":"2006-02-15T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2006-02-15T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/02\/15\/viewer-discression-advised\/"},"modified":"2006-02-15T15:46:53","modified_gmt":"2006-02-15T19:46:53","slug":"viewer-discression-advised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/15\/viewer-discression-advised\/","title":{"rendered":"Viewer Discression Advised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7996'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/abuabuse.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"308\" align=\"left\">No, not another gross photo of the Dowbrigade caught in the maw of<br \/>\n        a major metropolitan hospital. <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/tv\/VideoPopup.aspx?storyid=8bfb413cb025e432b48178d66a18af6b6b3fd557&amp;pos=0&amp;vol=100&amp;summit=false\">This<\/a> is<br \/>\n        much more serious and significant.&nbsp; Now, it is hard to shock the<br \/>\n        Dowbrigade, and after the previous material previously divulged about<br \/>\n        the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison it is difficult to shock the news-aware<br \/>\n        American public.<\/p>\n<p>But a new <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/tv\/VideoPopup.aspx?storyid=8bfb413cb025e432b48178d66a18af6b6b3fd557&amp;pos=0&amp;vol=100&amp;summit=false\">two minute video <\/a>released today frankly made us sick to our recently<br \/>\n        relocated stomach. It graphically drives home the point that what we<br \/>\n        are doing in Iraq is against all of the honorable principals on which<br \/>\n        this country was founded, and does a grave disservice to all of the true<br \/>\n        American heroes who gave their lives defending this country and those<br \/>\n        principles. It leaves no question as to who the bad guys are in Iraq<br \/>\n        on the ground today, whatever the motives and methods by which it was<br \/>\n        started.<\/p>\n<p>In our opinion these images are a thousand times more damning and capable of causing <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&amp;storyid=2006-02-15T165319Z_01_L15366160_RTRUKOC_0_US-RELIGION-CARTOONS.xml&amp;rpc=22\">violent<br \/>\n        indignation<\/a> than the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/07#a7976\">Danish<br \/>\n        cartoons of the Prophet<\/a>.<br \/>\n        If it were OUR people on the floor, under cowls, connected to electrical<br \/>\n        leads, etc., we just might feel like joining a demonstration leading<br \/>\n        to a riot and burning a few embassies. But maybe it&#8217;s just us, and this<br \/>\n        isn&#8217;t another example of the conflicts in culture and values that is emerging<br \/>\n        as the defining struggle of our times.<\/p>\n<p>video from <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/tv\/VideoPopup.aspx?storyid=8bfb413cb025e432b48178d66a18af6b6b3fd557&amp;pos=0&amp;vol=100&amp;summit=false\">Reuters<\/a> (extremely graphic)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not another gross photo of the Dowbrigade caught in the maw of a major metropolitan hospital. This is much more serious and significant.&nbsp; Now, it is hard to shock the Dowbrigade, and after the previous material previously divulged about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/02\/15\/viewer-discression-advised\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}