Cemetaries are refusing to accept Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body.
This is sad. The fact, that is, that something that is simply common decency apparently is so hard for Americans today, a vicious, bloodthirsty, vengeful people who want to do nothing but hurt others.
Look, people. Funerals are not for dead people. They’re dead. They don’t give a shit anymore, they kinda quit giving a shit when they, like, died. Tamerlan Tsarnaev doesn’t give a shit whether he’s buried, cremated, or chopped up and given to the Humane Society as dog food. He’s dead. Get it?
Uncle Ruslan Tsarni, on the other hand, seems to be a pretty straight-up guy. He called it like he saw it regarding the Tsarnaev brothers, calling them “losers”. On the other hand, that same straight-up character is also why he feels it’s a family responsibility to make sure that Tamerlan Tsarnaev gets a proper burial and why he accepted custody of the body and found a funeral home willing to accept it and perform proper Muslim rites. Remember, funerals and burials are for the living, because the dead don’t give a shit. By interfering with Uncle Ruslan’s ability to fulfil what he views as his family responsibility, all that America is doing is punishing someone for being responsible and morally upright. America is punishing character, which Uncle Ruslan has in spades, and which America, apparently, lacks.
As a matter of common decency, for crying out loud people, get Tamerlan under the ground. This deal of refusing to let Tamerlan be buried in your cemetaries is just pathetic, and makes America look like a bunch of bloodthirsty assholes.
– Badtux the Asshole-callin’ Penguin
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This makes us look like bloodthirsty assholes? I must protest – we’ve painted ourselves as bloody assholes for some time now. We are just showing how small minded we can be – we fear the dead, and wish to harm what cannot feel or respond to our actions.
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Marcus, I’d like to say that I disagree, but I can’t muster any disagreement with what you just said.
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You couldn’t have nailed it more perfectly than that, ‘Tux; well said. We’ve always been a flawed nation (slavery, prohibition, Viet Nam, the drug war, the Iraq invasion and occupation are the most visible flaws), but lately even the smallest flaws are starting to show. How did the crazies get to be in charge of everything?
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The crazies are in charge because it suits the purposes of the rich oligarchs to have it be that way.
WASF!
JzB
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This country easily gets a mob like mentality from straight out of the Old West.
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Paranoid schizophrenics also like to look like bloodthirsty assholes.That’s because they know they’re disorganized in their thinking, so they will be vulnerable to someone who’s got it together and comes at them. They won’t be able to come up with a verbal counter-argument to someone organized and aggressive. If it’s a skilled opponent who won’t falter after the schizo’s first flailing blows, they’re going to get flattened by someone who can keep up a sustained counterattack. So they hope to intimidate trouble away with an air of ferocious, unpredictable irrationality.”Nobody mess with the crazy guy!”
That’s where the U.S. is now. It’s not powerful in anything except nuclear bombs and flying death machines. Even the vaunted army and navy forces can lash out and destroy things in the first blow, but they get chewed up in a sustained campaign. But if you present as a land populated by rabid screeching weasels,hen maybe other forces will be afraid to put you to the test.
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Of course, it wouldn’t have anything to do with the complete morons would would inevitably destroy large chunks of the cemetery looking for Tsarnaev’s grave, now would it? It has to be the cemeteries that want to keep him out because THEY are assholes?
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Yogi, mass murderers have been buried in cemeteries before. Generally they handle it by making it an unmarked grave and normal security measures, and after a few months people forget about it and things go back to normal. This is… different.
Bukko, see today’s post about the National Security State, which looks an awful lot like your paranoid schizophrenics.
One Fly, I’ve studied a fair bit of the actual history of the Old West (as versus the TV history). In most of the cases of mob violence that I’ve come about, the person who ended up hung pretty much deserved it — *BUT THEY GAVE HIM A DECENT BURIAL AFTERWARDS*. Something which the current small-minded brainless mob is intent upon denying to Tsarnaev.
JzB, but nobody woke up and put crazies in charge of those cemeteries. It’s like crazy is a disease and has spread to people who should know better. I think the whole nation has gone crazy, personally. And yes, as you say, if that’s the case, WASF.
-Badtux the Decent Penguin
(somewhat lonely in that position though, it seems).
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[…] Badtux, Charlie Pierce, and Echidne are all, in their way, wondering what the point is in the protests against burying the dead? This is the sort of tasteless thing the Westboro Baptist Church gets up to. Why are these people emulating the Phelps clan? […]
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