Jousting with the Lancet: Pajamas Media Interviews Professor Gilbert Burnham
the reporting of 650,000 deaths is not a political statement. Are you saying that this is even politically motivated? that is insane. a number like that is so horrible, that it should bother all those who hear it, not “swing voters” how off could a translation be? is that the common sense? that translators can’t translate? don’t be ridiculous.
i ask you to go and ask people (average education of an american is 8th grade)”how many people do you think die in car accidents each year?” please tell me if they guess a number higher than 44,000, because that shocked me, and should bother you.
furthemore, americans have not heard of these numbers and statistics of deaths in Iraq because they either don’t pay attention and/or they follow mainstream media, which will report only what will make viewers watch them so they make advertising dollars.
Finally, charging someone like this with sedition? if you are not joking, you are ignorant. the numbers he wants? does anyone go and say “i want to make up a study saying 650,000 people have died” even if someone did, for what purpose i could never understand, that is not grounds for sedition. changing public opinion is not sedition, it is a fight against oppresion and power-hunger and genocide. if bringing up a statistic not benefitial to the republican congress is sedition, you might wind up sliding down the slippery slope to tyranny.
