Why I Don’t Condemn Hamas For October 7
In 1999, a woman named Cindy Hendy was stabbed in the neck with an ice pick by a woman named Cynthia Vigil inside a trailer home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Vigil then fled the scene to a nearby residence, whose owner promptly called the police.
She was never charged with any crime.
The reason Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime despite having stabbed Cindy Hendy in the neck with an ice pick was because Hendy was an accomplice of the serial killer David Parker Ray, also known as the Toy Box Killer. Vigil’s escape from the trailer where Ray and Hendy had been imprisoning and torturing her led to the pair’s subsequent arrest. Ray died in prison three years later, the full extent of his murder spree still unknown. Hendy served 19 years and was released in 2019.
Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime because anyone could see that violent force was an entirely understandable and legitimate response to having been kidnapped and subjected to horrific treatment. It never at any time occurred to anyone to say that she should have acted differently, and it most certainly never occurred to anyone to make her single act of desperate violence the major story instead of the fact that there was a serial killer who’d been abducting women and torturing them in his murder dungeon.
And, I mean, imagine how absurd it would have been if they’d done that. Imagine if, after the Toy Box Killer story broke, all the major headlines were about a woman stabbing another woman with an ice pick. Imagine if the ice pick stabbing was all the press ever wanted to talk about, for month after month after month, instead of the fact that people had been imprisoned and subjected to savage abuse by a cruel serial murderer.
Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if, any time someone was interviewed about this case in the news, they were asked if they condemned Cynthia Vigil for her brutal, evil, sadistic ice pick stabbing of Cindy Hendy.
Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if the press kept framing the incident as though Hendy was just standing around, innocently minding her own business, and was then victimized by a barbaric and unprovoked attack by Vigil.
Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if everyone kept the story focused on the ice pick stabbing, and any time anyone tried to point out that the stabbing only occurred because Cynthia Vigil was being imprisoned by a deranged serial killer and his female accomplice they were hysterically denounced as Vigil apologists and supporters of neck-stabbing, and told that nothing — absolutely nothing — could ever excuse or justify the violence that Vigil inflicted upon Hendy on that terrible day.
Imagine how absurd it would’ve been if, rather than coming to Vigil’s rescue and arresting those who’d victimized her, the police had returned Vigil to her captors and helped David Parker Ray resume his murderous lifestyle.
Imagine if, while helping David Parker Ray re-establish his status quo lifestyle of kidnapping, torture and murder, arguments were made by law enforcement and the media that Ray’s murder dungeon has a right to exist, and that Ray and his accomplices have a right to defend their home and their way of life.
Imagine if Ray had greatly escalated his murderousness and sadism in full view of the entire world following Cynthia Vigil’s attempted escape, and people defended this by solemnly invoking the horrible, awful day when Vigil launched an unprovoked ice pick attack on Cindy Hendy’s neck.
Imagine if, in order to help justify their support for Ray’s murderous rampage, the police and the media had sown lies and disinformation about what Vigil did during her escape attempt, claiming she sexually assaulted Hendy and beheaded her baby and put its body in an oven.
It’s hard to imagine anything being more ridiculous, is it not? It’s hard to imagine a more obscene reversal of victim and victimizer, and a more absurd response to someone’s desperate efforts to escape from her abusive captors.
It’s about as backwards and insane as anyone could possibly be about anything, and anyone who tried to get you to believe such an absurdity would obviously be a psychologically abusive gaslighter who should never be believed about anything ever again. Clearly they have a demented perspective, every part of which should be rejected in every way possible.
Anyway, yeah. That’s why I’ve never condemned Hamas for October 7.
This is fucking INSANE.
American campuses with intel offices with professors reporting back to Tel Aviv — to a foreign state.
While politicians say idiotic garbage like “Hamas has infiltrated campuses” — Israel is LITERALLY SPYING ON AMERICAN STUDENTS WITH NYPD SUPPORT
I don’t care if you sneak out into the dead of night and shakily scratch ‘Free Palestine’ into an old rusted lamppost,
I don’t care if you have careful conversations with apolitical friends and family members about the horrors happening with full support of western governments,
I don’t care if you wear your Keffiyeh to work, to the gym, to the store, to the coffee shop, to the park, to the library, or all of the above, every single day,
I don’t care if you write poetry or paint or make music or draw doodles or write stories about the terrors of empire and how a world looks within which everyone is liberated and living dignified lives,
I don’t care if you march to the embassy at noon every Saturday and chant to those meek and morbid little souls inside to remind them of the tyranny they support,
I don’t care if you scream from the rooftops at 6am every single morning how none of us are free until everyone — including every last Palestinian the world over — is free,
I don’t care if you climb the fences of the arms manufacturers and smash the windows and rip off the roof tiles and dowse their doorways in fake blood to remind them of their sins,
I don’t care what it is you choose to do to resist…. I care that you resist.
I care that you indulge that defiant and divine spark within you that urges you in the dark crevices of your mind to stand up for what is right, to stand up for those under the bootheels of oppression, to stand up for those who haven’t even been given a fucking chance to live the life they’ve got because tyrants in our western governments want to eat the fucking earth,
Because everyone has an inalienable right to liberation, dignity and self-determination,
Because we are all part of the same extended human family,
Because there but by the grace of God go we,
And because what else could possibly be more important than creating a world in which children aren’t bombed by the thousand for merely being born in the wrong place?
This world is ours to share — all of us. And so we resist to make it fair — for everyone. And we never stop until that goal is reached.
ROBERT KRAFT ANNOUNCES HE WILL WITHHOLD FUNDING FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY AFTER PROTESTS AT THE CAMPUS
Zionists place themselves in positions of power and influence. They then use that to control society. This is an example.
Goddamn, Iran completes one of the most measured, moderate military responses in their own defense I could have imagined and the imperial warmongers ratchet up the war rhetoric. If we do end up with a world war, it's very clear who'll be responsible.
BREAKING: Iran successfully targeted Israel’s Ramon Airbase with ballistic missiles.
This base has been repeatedly used to carry out bombing against Syria and the Iranian advisors present on Syrian soil.
In other words: This is actual self-defense.
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for 35k Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for 20k Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for 10k Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for 5k Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for 1k Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
“Fuck you” to everyone who needed to wait for Palestinians to die before they called for a ceasefire
Palestinians were ALREADY dying before October 7th.
Palestinians have been dying for 75 fucking years.
Palestinians in Gaza have been experiencing unfathomable suffering for nearly six months now but the entire western political-media class has been insisting since October 7 that we center the feelings of Israelis and western Jews at all times. Palestinian anguish doesn't count.
Today is the 21st anniversary of the murder of US citizen Rachel Corrie by Israeli occupation forces. A brave woman who knew the meaning of solidarity. RIP Rachel. Palestine will be free.
A deeply destructive and authoritarian attempt to suppress information, and to punish citizens for disagreeing with their government about #Palestine. The minute they lose control of the narrative, freedom of expression goes out the window.
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