From: Bob Kiss (bobkiss@caribsurf.com)
Date: 03/05/03-06:20:37 AM Z
DEAR GREG,
I agree with you completely that only if we can SEE history can we learn
from it and not repeat it. So I agree that the images should not be
"classified". I was only commenting on the insane context of war, its
"math", and the horrific necessities and decisions it forces on people.
I never cease to be amazed at what rabid militarists in a society can do
to otherwise amazing cultures. Japanese art and aesthetics are some of the
most beautiful in the world but when the militarists took over the Diet
(sp?) they assassinated those who wanted peace and planned Pearl Harbor.
Germany and Austria, filled with an intelligent, interesting, and creative
people, home of some of the world's greatest composers (and damned good
cars), lead by a madman and his goons, leave the Holocaust as their legacy.
I am not judging the societies. You are right in that every citizen of
any country needs to know what its government is doing and then let the
government know if they agree or not. Censorship is a sure way to
circumvent this.
CHEERS!
BOB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Schmitz" <gws1@columbia.edu>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: A little OT context; was One Bomb
>
> Yes, but what do the numbers of dead in Germany or of an invasion that
> never happened have to to with the U.S. Government censorship of both
> motion picture and still film footage of the effects of our use of
> radioactive bombs? The pictures are still, as far as I know,
> "classified" by D.O.D. and D.O.E. Barnouw, whom I mentioned in a
> previous post contended that our Government did not want us to see
> what the effect of those 2 bombs were on the people who survived (even
> if they only lived for a short while). We should not be allowed to
> glimpse inside the "gates of hell," I can only presume that the
> government is doing this propaganda (aka "public relation) purposes.
>
> -greg schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu>
>
> > Even counting those that died of radiation poisoning later, the
total
> > dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fewer than 250,000...ONE TENTH of
the
> > estimated deaths from a conventional attack. Insane math? Sure! But
then,
> > as I said, if you don't want hell, don't open the gates!
> >
>
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