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We've all seen that footage of the World Trade Center getting blown up over and over and over and over.<br />
The footage was very important and needed to be shown over and over.<br />
Seeing our nemesis Osama speak is just as important. Look how often Hitler's speeches are being broadcast on the History channel even today, 60 years later!<br />
Normally the Osama tape would be shown over and over and over and over, just like the WTC tapes.<br />
Experts would analyse it, show it in slow motion, examine every word Osama said, etc. etc.<br />
But none of that is happening. The government told the media not to show the tape.<br />
The official reason is, the tape may contain hidden messages for sleeper terrorist cells.<br />
That's complete nonsense if you ask me. First of all, if Osama really is behind the WTC attack, he obviously has a way to communicate with his sleeper cells here in the states. Maybe the Internet. Maybe telephone. Maybe fax. Maybe bank statements (If I send you a moneygram for 6 Dollars and 66 cents, blow up the WTC.) Who knows.<br />
But he definitely wouldn't have to rely on a video tape, since he has no way of knowing when and if the tape would be shown here in the States.<br />
And even IF the tape contained a hidden message. The tape was shown already. And once is enough to get the message out.<br />
You better believe those sleeper cell terrorists here in the US are watching CNN day and night and there's NO WAY they missed Osama's speech being broadcast. <br />
So whatever"secret" message there might have been, the message is out. Showing the tape once was all it took. Whatever damage that tape could have done, is already done.<br />
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So what's the real reason why they're not showing the tape?
I suspect there are two reasons:
1) Osama is a charismatic speaker.
I'm not saying I like the guy... Hitler was a charismatic speaker and I certainly don't like him.
If our journalists kept analysing every word he said, and we would hear his message over and over, we'd start to realize that he has a few good points.
He said we will never know peace until his people in the Middle East know peace. Think about that for a minute. He didn't say he wants all Americans dead. He didn't say we're devils. He simply said what's fair is fair. We've been killing his people, now he's killing ours.
The things he said in his speech are not quite as whacky as our government would like us to believe. But for the same reasons there are no TV specials explaining the Israeli-Palestine conflict, we also won't get to hear Osama's point of view.
Think about that for a minute. There are 1001 TV specials about Hitler and his motivations. TV specials about Afghanistan and the Taliban. Specials about how great our weapons are. Heck, even hundreds of TV specials about music bands (Behind the Music.)
So why is there no 2-hour TV special explaining to us in detail what the Israelis and the Palestinians are fighting about and what Osama (and all the other Moslems) mean by"Free Palestine!"
And even if you don't feel that Osama's message makes sense, it might very well make a lot of sense to the Arabs who live in the US.
Especially since they're able to understand his Arab speech, and his original choice of words. No matter how much our local Moslems may disagree with Osama's terror tactics, they'll agree with what he says about Palestine.
So not showing the tape is stopping us from hearing the details of what the other side wants - and sympathizing with it.
2) Osama is just a person
Did you ever notice that it's much easier to talk bad about someone if you don't know them personally? If you spouse tells you about a squabble with a co-worker, you hear the story and dislike that co-worker.
Then a few days later your spouse seems to be getting along with that co-worker again, and you can't quite understand why that is - after all wasn't that co-worker such a meanie?
It's simple psychology. If you don't know someone personally and have never actually seen them move and talk, it's much easier to demonize them.
Once you see that demon speak, you realize he really isn't so bad after all... He's just another guy. An asshole maybe (or pretty damn evil in Osama's case) - but still just a guy.
If you see someone speak eloquently and intelligently, it's much harder to think of that person as a crazy fundamentalist.
And no matter whether we like Osama or not, the tape of his speech was pretty damn good. (In terms of eloquence and production values.)
The first thing CNN reporters"admired" when they aired the footage was how professionally it was done - not with some crappy video camera, but with real TV cameras.
Or to illustrate my point even further, imagine how odd it would be if we saw footage of Osama playing with a puppy. Or Osama cuddling with his kids, or kissing his wife. How much harder would it be for us to think of him as a demon?
So to avoid even the slightest of those sympathetic feelings, the government told the media not to air the tape anymore.
I have a feeling that if Osama had looked like a raving, drooling lunatic in that video tape, we'd be seeing it over and over right now.
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