The Lifeboat News
[ Message Archive | The Lifeboat News ]

    Jon Snow and the Murdered Children: His Six-Figure Salary Cannot Buy a Clear Conscience Archived Message

    Posted by mike on May 21, 2019, 12:18 am

    By Alison Banville

    I have just heard some news which is almost too heartbreaking to put into words. This morning, a little boy, Marcel Shadi Nemeh, died of his wounds in hospital after sustaining them last Sunday in an attack by Nusra Front terrorists on his home in Skeilbiyyeh, Syria. In that same attack, his brother Bashar was killed, along with three other children who were innocently playing in a monastery courtyard and some in their own homes.

    But you will not be seeing Marcel’s angelic face all over your TV screens tonight. Nor little Bashar’s. Because that would be a sane world, one in which humanity rules the way our news media responds to such atrocity. But in this world, empathy is sidelined and soulless expediency governs the responses of ‘journalists’ who long ago sold their souls for a six-figure salary. For the corporate media these murdered children are simply the wrong kind of victims, no matter they are innocent children. These brothers are not the kind of poster boys useful to ‘professional’ reporters who sell themselves daily for a monetary reward that can never be enough to buy them a clear conscience.

    These little boys’ beyond tragic and utterly needless deaths do not support the official line on Syria, which is that ‘moderate rebels’ are engaged in a noble fight against the monster Assad, and, therefore, anything threatening that audacious lie will simply be made invisible.



    Please, then, look at the faces of Marcel and Bashar now in the picture above and into the faces of his mother and the other grieving women at his coffin this afternoon (below) and absorb the enormity of the crime that has taken the lives of these two precious boys.



    And then ask yourself, what kind of evil is abroad that can perpetrate this kind of depravity? Syrian Wissam Sliman’s powerful words can help us answer that question:

    The whole world must know that there’s a mother in Syria whose first child was massacred in a terrorist attack last week but she didn’t have time to mourn him because she was praying for her second son to survive, and today she lost him, her second child. US, #UK and France have crossed all the lines, they can no more be described as monsters, because even monsters wouldn’t dare to reach to this level of criminality, it’s beyond description and beyond comprehension.

    Wissam, with all the anguish of a Syrian watching this horror show unfold in his land, reminds us that it is the British government, as well as those of the United States and France that are leading this wave of atrocities under the banner of ‘humanitarian intervention’, an Orwellian phrase dripping with sick irony. We must all, surely, as citizens of these criminal countries, take any, and all, action we possibly can to expose the horrors being committed in our name.

    Continues: https://bsnews.info/jon-snow-and-the-murdered-children-his-six-figure-salary-cannot-buy-a-clear-conscience/

    Message Thread: