These videos are getting rather tiresome and oh so predictable. Every video that's been released has been the same up to this point. You see almost no emotion or fear coming from the person who is about to have their head chopped off. Clearly they are reading from a teleprompter, and they always manage to fade the video out without showing the actual beheading, which you would think the terrorists would want in order to drive their point across. Why would they censor their own beheading videos, unless of course the entire thing is fake and no actual beheadings are taking place? Before the video fades out, you see several cuts made across the person's neck by what is clearly a rubber knife. No blood is seen spurting out the neck, and the person barely makes a sound. When the video fades back in you see the person's beheaded body with a relatively small amount of blood on the ground where the head used to be, and the decapitated head resting on the upper back of the body. This can easily be faked with video editing, or by simply creating a fake head and decapitated body as they do in horror films. Every ISIS beheading video has been like this. http://youtu.be/NCzDa2WBPAA
What is the difference in effect whether it is genuine or not? Certainly seems to irritate you. People are caught up in belief not understanding it's purpose as part of perception. The video is designed to be impressionistic to move the dull witted and personally powerless.
What's the importance of whether it's real or not? Sometimes I dunno what's more messed up, beheadings or the fact people sit at home and study the shit.
It's fucking called criticial thinking. It's called not swallowing whatever lies the media feeds to you in order to get you to go along with an agenda that has anything but your best interests in mind. It's a fuck of a lot better to study how we're being lied to, and on the scale in which it's being done, than it is to study football statistics or the latest gossip involving the Kardashians.
Are you serious? Are you saying it doesn't matter whether these beheading videos are real or not?? Really??
Instead of ISIS retaliation which will happen. The U.S. Should just invest in specialized MP's and Operations Officers to track these murderers down, that's all this is. Not like ISIS is a military superpower and its not like we need an entire military force to stop some dude from chopping some other dudes head off. Prolly gonna invade africa next for selling condoms at an abortion clinic or something.
Because of their affect by design yes. For example whether it be hook or crook it is used as pretext for military action.
edited video gets way more mainstream coverage than a gruesome reality one they are aiming to spread their message to the masses instead of just the bestgore crazies pretty damn effective so far
I watched a pretty good documentary on Isis made by vice. Apparently they were in Bagdad following iraq's only heavy metal band when Isis first started rising to power. They were one of the few media outlets left in Iraq at the time. It gives you a pretty good snapshot of Isis beyond the media hysteria. Its on YouTube.
idk, if those beheadings are real or not, and I hope they are not....but real or not, I am not going to click on any more of those links. They are too disturbing...either way.
What edited video? The only video is the one ISIS is reported to have released, ISIS apparently does their own editing since the video does not show an actual beheading. The media won't even show that. You cannot even watch the video on YouTube. Most people hear someone was beheaded and never actually look into it, but instead take the word of the news media.
I was talking with a friend on the phone a couple weeks ago, and they told me that there was a video of the beheading of Steve Sotloff. I said, "I doubt they actually showed the guy sawing his head off and removing it from his body." They said, "Yes, that's what it shows." I hunted the video down, and it does not show his head being sawed off. The power of suggestion is powerful. I pretty much told them exactly what you said about there being no reason whatsoever for ISIS to edit it the way that they did, and that to do so was counterproductive to their purpose.
The UN has put out reports of what ISIS has been getting up to. I dont care whether these videos are real ir not, whats happening everywhere else in the region needs to be stopped. May my and your tax dollars go to help our troops go kick some towelhead ass