watch before they take it off youtube

Subject: watch before they take it off youtube Sat May 10, 2008 10:37 am

its crap like this that makes me ashamed to be an american

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5_vG3cYGM

Subject: Re: watch before they take it off youtube Tue May 13, 2008 8:36 am

I was disgusted MID with this video. You can be certain that these soldiers have a black mark on their Karma because of their treatment of these children.

I am so disheartened from watching this. These are not the Americans I know. These are not the type of people I associate with. Nobody I know would treat a child in this manner, or speak of a child in such derogatory manner.

This President and this administration have brought out the worst of the American people to further their unjustified cause.

I cannot say anything to justify this behavior, but I must add that there are monsters in every society. Not just Americans. It is just that we are at the forefront of history right now and we are leaving a sad legacy for our children. The United States has a lot of Karma to contend with soon.
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Subject: Re: watch before they take it off youtube Tue May 13, 2008 11:29 am

talk about timing

The Bridge ~ Reminder #14
Peace

Peace is just a thought away

One of the subjects which seems to monopolize much of our thoughts today is defense, or personal safety. In the spirit of helping us to understand how we are sabotaging ourselves in this area by holding onto our old ways of thinking, The Bridge will now address this highly charged topic by going a little deeper into our defense mindset.

When you're thinking that someone else is going to attack you, you are actually helping to create that attack. A defensive position always invites an attack. It works like this: In your mind, you're picturing someone - perhaps it's an enemy footsoldier, a renegade terrorist, or a drugged-out street criminal - coming to get you. This is a thought, just like all other thoughts. With enough attention put on it, it will work its way toward the surface of your experience, just like the thought that you're going to go to Disneyland next month.

Fortunately, we can pick any thought we want. Thoughts that serve us and those that don't are equally available to us. If a person envisions attackers, then he will be attacked. If a person envisions Disneyland , then he'd better get his E tickets ready. The question is: What kind of world do we want to live in? If we keep envisioning the same old us vs. them separation scenarios as propagated by the media, then we'll never live in peace. But, if we shed our victim mentality and begin to picture our world in its highest light, then things will change. Thousands of years of man killing his fellowman will come to an end and be replaced by the expression of a deep and abiding respect for one another. All it takes is a little deeper thinking.

We must stop letting those with their own personal agendas tell us who our enemies are. We must investigate a little further to discover who the true perpetrators of violence on this planet are. And we must reject their manipulative suggestions and begin to discern in favor of that which is for the highest good of all.

For those who want to live in true freedom (not the kind of freedom offered by most present-day patriotic movements), peace needs to take the highest precedence. We must, in fact, demand peace because freedom requires a peaceful environment in which to grow and thrive. As of yet, not enough of us have been able to garner the inner strength needed to create a lasting peace. There are a few - and more are seeing the light every day - but it takes a larger number of people to stop supporting a social reality that doesn't serve them before a shift into true collective sovereignty will occur.

The time will come, in our very near future, when one more person envisions a peaceful world and, with that seemingly tiny action, the scales are tipped. The storm clouds disappear and a new world, the world that we deserve to live in as our right of birth, opens up before us.

It will be like a miracle ... but it's not really a miracle. It's only us having changed our thoughts.

From The Highest Light Teachings

My Intention for today is:
I intend that I am guided, guarded, and protected at all times.

Subject: Re: watch before they take it off youtube Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:38 pm

Marines Disciplined for Tossing Puppy
By AUDREY McAVOY,
AP
Posted: 2008-06-12 10:46:10
Filed Under: Nation News
HONOLULU (June 12) -- The Marine Corps said Wednesday it was expelling one Marine and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq.

The 17-second video posted on YouTube drew sharp condemnation from animal rights groups when it came to light in March.

YouTube screen grab of puppy-tossing video
YouTube.com
This image is from a YouTube video that showed a Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff during a patrol in Iraq. The video drew condemnation from animal rights groups.
The clip shows two Marines joking before one hurls the puppy into a rocky gully. A yelping sound is heard as it flips through the air.

"That's mean. That's mean, Motari," an off-camera Marine is heard telling the Marine who tossed the black and white dog. The off-camera Marine snickered slightly afterward.

Lance Cpl. David Motari, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment at Kaneohe Bay, is "being processed for separation" from the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps said in a news release. He also received unspecified "non-judicial punishment."

The Marine Corps didn't say what role Motari played in the clip.

The video was viewed tens of thousands of times before YouTube took it down because of a violation of the site's terms of use.

"The actions seen in the Internet video are contrary to the high standards we expect of every Marine and will not be tolerated," Marine Corps Base Hawaii said in a news release. "The vast majority of Marines conduct their duties with honor and compassion that makes American people proud."

The second Marine, Sgt. Crismarvin Banez Encarnacion, also received unspecified "non-judicial" punishment.

Encarnacion is assigned to the Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

First Lt. Binford Strickland, a Marine Corps Base Hawaii spokesman, said the service may not reveal what roles the two men played in the video because that was part of the investigation. He said releasing such information would violate the Privacy Act.

Strickland declined to provide details about the disciplinary measures taken against the men for the same reason.

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