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Gary Brooks Faulkner, the bountyhunting construction worker
June 15th, 2010 | 
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A construction worker from California has been caught in the forest of Pakistan with a sword, a gun and nightvision equipment, on his alleged seventh hunt for Osama Bin Laden. He was planning to decapitate Bin Laden once he’d manage to find him.
A newsitem that makes us laugh, perhaps. This sort of local folklore always does well in the media. But think about it: if the same guy would have been captured in the forests outside of washington on a hunt for George Bush our media would have obsessed for weeks how it was possible that this ‘terrorist’ entered the country. Airports would have been shut down, security would have been on debates for weeks.
Gary Brooks Faulkner was caught wearing several christian religious regalia in a foreign muslim country. How would you feel if a pakistani was caught in the forest of Washington, hunting for someone the Pakistani governement had declared a criminal, covered in religious koran texts? Right.
As long as we apply these double standards to our media coverage there simply isnt anything ethical about our approach of the world or the news.
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There are at least a couple of pieces of evidence that Bin Laden arrogantly presented himself via audio and video tape intended for broadcast to the entire world, and in the name of Allah no less. He declared war on the US in the form of jihad and admitted to participating in the attack on the WTC. If you want to protect him from being killed before justice can be administered, you’d better get him to Guantanamo before our real soldiers find him.
What double standard? It looks as though Faulkner is receiving plenty of press. Have you read the news on him from Pakistan’s news agencies?
By the way, I didn’t laugh when I heard about his adventure, I cheered!
Im all in favor of putting the people who organized that terror attack in court and give them a life or even death sentence. Im not in favor of skipping the court and go bounty hunting. I think that bypasses the foundation we build our respective systems on and such bypasses are simply never a good idea.
No? So you think Hitler should have had a proper court case? You are happy with the goings on in The Hague, where pathetic cases against war-criminals drag on endlessly, driving victims and survivors to despair with the incongruity between their tortured memories and the legalist hairsplittings in the court?
I’m not. I find the pretensions of these ‘tribunals’ obscene and naive
Sop I think it was a mercy when the rumanians instantly executed their satanic majesties the Ceaucescu’s when they had the chance, and that someome like Andy Mc Nab says he would behead OBL before handing him over to the Americans when claiming his just reward
The only people entitled to judge these ogres are their immediate victims – the rest should shut the hell up and keep quiet. There is no justice in the shadowy realms of terror – only killers, murderers and their victims, and traumatized survivors
So, although it is very commendable of course that you are such a correct individual, I very much hope it will not fall on the likes of you to decide in matters like these, if and when our turn comes, although I am not holding my breath
But he looks much more like a UVA-teacher or a Groen Links politician – look:
http://www.aolnews.com/the-point/article/gary-faulkner-would-be-bin-laden-beheader/19517115