This film from Amnesty International won the Cannes Lions 2007 Gold Lion Award for Public Service. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Ursi’s Blog
This film from Amnesty International won the Cannes Lions 2007 Gold Lion Award for Public Service. Push play or go to YouTube. -via Ursi’s Blog
If people continue to act like sheep, they should expect to get herded (and slaughtered).
All of these "poor" repressed people reside in Countries where the civilians out number the military by VAST numbers.
Their leaders and soldiers must eat, must sleep, must have basic services (water, electricity, gas, etc.), must be supplied, yet the VAST population sits back and weeps hoping that someone else in the world will solve their problems (and fight their battles) instead of doing something about it themselves.
So why does such pathetic in-action deserve a film, let alone any sympathy?
To Alex I would say that the second amendment - the right of a citizen to bear arms, etc. - could be as great a defender of oppressed people as anything else - if they benefited from living under it. Perhaps if all those massacred hundreds of thousands of Tutsi's in Rwanda had been air-dropped cheap firearms instead of being given platitudes by the UN they might still be alive. Sometimes guns ARE the answer.
To clarify my original point - I personally think the message in this animation is counterproductive. It is vague about the specific locations of the atrocities portrayed and serves only to entrench the woolly beliefs of people who believe all they have to do to solve problems like this is to sign something, and to express that vapid "solidarity" feeling. What good is that to the victims they're supposed to be concerned about?
And I agree AI has leanings; then again, there's not one "global" agency that doesn't and let's not get started on the UN. If you find AI irrelevant, no quibbles about that. As long you don't say defenseless people deserve to be herded and slaughtered, because it's a totally different can o' worms.
My point would be that mmmark's sentiments are equally
worthless. "...imagine your parents, etc. being tortured and killed in front of you..."
Those victims have NO interest in you or ten million like-minded people signing anything - except perhaps the Commander-In-Chief signing orders for military action against the offending regime.
mmmark's comment meant to address OTOH's simplistic view on civilians trapped in war realities.
A lobbying group can sway a CIC to some oil action.
For what it's worth, between AI and the UN, the latter's a more scintillating disappointment.