murder in the snow

I just watched a documentary that house pest 2.0 gave me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/7715109.stm

It's about how he witnessed, along with 100 other mountaineers attempting to summit Cho Oyu, the murder of Tibetan children attempting to escape to Nepal. On film, one of house pest 2.0's clients captured the murder of a 17 year old nun; seven other refugees were shot and their bodies kicked into a crevasse. After HP2.0 reported the murders, anonymously (because no one else did), he was harassed by his employer, who also apparently ratted him out to the Chinese government, causing him to almost not make it out of the country. His life has completely changed and he no longer guides in China because he spoke out about the murders. When a woman leading up the human rights watch in Asia attempted to contact climbers who had witnessed the murders, few did the same, even though all were witnesses. Disgusting cowards.

I'll never understand how a male species so bent on fucking and procreating as much as possible could stand idly by and watch children get gunned down, especially when they likely had kids the same age as those that were shot. Men are I guess by nature more worried about the amount of money they have invested in something (a house, a fucking summit bid) than they are innocent children being fucking shot.

I guess the documentary really hit a raw nerve tonight because today I was helping Trina write a story about the Virginia Tech shootings. We were talking about how, back in the day, I would practically get mauled by students for riding my mountain bike across the drill field ("illegal" by the campus rules). The idea that some fucking asshole could walk across campus with multiple guns and ammo two hours after shooting two innocent people, and then proceed to lock the doors of Norris hall with bike locks, so no one could get out, before he started shooting the place up...I just can't imagine that ever happening on the campus where I went to school. How could no one see his guns? How could no one see him locking the doors?

The problem with people is they don't give a shit. Even in the documentary, one guy was talking about how these Chinese soldiers had automatic weapons and the mountaineers didn't. How about dropping an ice ax into someone's head? How about 100 people not being hostage to a few fucks with a gun? Nazi Germans hauling off the Jews? Might as well be.

In conclusion to my tirade, which I should stop before my head explodes, since I know it's impossible to ban guns, here's an idea - you're so worried about me smoking, and yet it costs more money for me to smoke a pack of cigarettes and potentially expose you to second hand smoke, which will cause you to sue me if you get cancer, than it does for me to take a 9 mm to a shooting range and have fun with a target, even if the next time I load my gun the target is you. Bullets should cost a lot more fucking money, and I mean that world wide - think of them, tax wise, as a bottle of Jim Beam and a pack of Marlboro Reds rolled into one. Throw the gun in for free with the ammo, I don't give a fuck. And how about making them with the same care that most crap is made with these days, i.e. the fucking thing will break after the warranty runs out (30 days, tick tock tick tock, better go shoot someone quick like).

Cops, and military guys who need to shoot, I'm not talking about you...the gov can provide a subsidy. Government can't afford it? Whatever, steal the ammo from Black Water. You know they charged four times what it was worth when they billed that stupid fuck Bush.

Okay, I'm going to have a drink and do some yoga breathing. Maybe pray for humanity. And ask anyone who reads this to do something. Not like donate money. Just try to be nicer to your fellow man. Work on your compassion. Do what ever is in your power for people in need (BTW, praying, yeah, that doesn't really help - but if it makes you feel better like you did something, tear it up).

I don't know, it's probably hopeless.

"Madness, insanity, live in profanity
then some punk claimin they understandin me
give me a break, what world do you live in
death is my sect, guess my religion"

Ice-T