US hostage in Iraq confirmed dead
Tom Fox
Fox had worked two years in Iraq
An American who was among four peace activists kidnapped in Iraq last year has been found shot dead in Baghdad.

Tom Fox's body was found on Thursday in the affluent Mansour district, Iraqi police said. There were signs that he had been beaten before being killed.

Mr Fox was seized last November, along with Briton Norman Kember and Canadians James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden.

A video tape showing the other three men was released on Tuesday, but Mr Fox did not feature on it.

Mr Fox, 54, had been working with Iraqi human rights organisations for the past two years.

His parent organisation, Christian Peacemaker Teams, said it mourned his loss.

"Tom Fox... combined a lightness of spirit, a firm opposition to all oppression and the recognition of God in everyone," it said in a statement.

The organisation's co-directors, Doug Pritchard and Carol Rose, appealed to people to "set aside inclinations to vilify or demonise others, no matter what they have done".

UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said he was saddened by the news and remained very concerned about the fate of the other hostages.

"This clearly raises the anxiety about the other hostages and we have been in contact with Mr Kember's family." (....)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4795678.stm

OMFG! Prolly the stupidist men in Iraq. I mean, kidnap a peace s activist who actually fights for you, and is against the occupation thats fucking idiotic! These guys should all be put down very very soon!!

http://i2-images.tv2.dk/s/51/768251-deabd34e4af5a6646de02e4b5c1915ea.jpeg

If they go around killing their own people and blowing up their own mosque then why would they not kill an American who dedicated his life to helping them destroy little satan and big satan.

De is a killing machine.

Don't use retarded...that's just wrong...use stupid or something else.

reminds me of the little boy and the snake.



He carefully picked up the snake, took it close to his chest, and carried him back to the woods, to his home to die. Just before he laid the rattlesnake down, the rattlesnake turned and bit him in the chest. The little boy cried out and threw the snake upon the ground. "Mr. Snake, why did you do that? Now I will surely die!" The rattlesnake looked up at him and grinned, "You knew what I was when you picked me up."

http://www.indigenouspeople.net/snake.htm

There was a nut case named Timothy Treadwell who fancied himself a modern Grizzly Adams. He was a troubled young man, a drug addict with many troubles in his short life.

He became fascinated with the idea of living among the brown bears of the Alaskan wilderness apparently as some sort of homemade therapy to ease his troubled mind. For several years he trekked to this wild place and talked to the bears filming, himself as he did so. He imagined they knew him and were his "friends".

In the end, he and his equally troubled girl friend, were eaten alive by the very bears that they thought were their "friends". He should have expected it. Bears are not cuddly stuffed animals. They are the most powerful and savage creatures of their world. They have no use for touchy-feely nuts from California cooing and talking baby talk to them. They have one-track minds. Kill and eat. That's it. It isn't too complicated.

Late last year a group of anti-American "Christians" went to Iraq to coo and talk baby talk to the radical Islamists who have been kidnapping and chopping off the heads of their enemies.

As soon as they got to Iraq, three of them were kidnapped by the very people these peace advocates had come to Iraq to speak for.

Today they found the body of Tom Fox, a member of that Christian Peace group that went to Iraq to display solidarity with the Islamofascist insurgents.

Fox wrote an essay about why he was going to Iraq just before he was taken by those who he was ostensibly there to speak for. In part it said, "We are here to root out all aspects of dehumanization that exists within us. We are here to stand with those being dehumanized by oppressors and stand firm against that dehumanization".

In other words, he is against the United States of America. And he went to Iraq to stand in solidarity with the murderous thugs that ended up being his executioners.

Of course, it is horrible to see people murdered in such a violent and pointless way. But the question just begs to be asked:

Should Fox and his anti-American crew have known better? Didn't he, in the end, get what he should have realized he would get? He walked naked among bears, cooing and talking baby talk as those bears went about doing what everyone knows that they are going to do despite someone's "understanding" of them! They are murders, thugs and terrorists. They have no use for people like Fox who are not in touch with reality.

Time to deploy the 'special' forces... (http://students.washington.edu/greenbam/humor/veryspecial.html)

500 made a funny.

http://students.washington.edu/greenbam/humor/images/plane_bus.gif

It's kinda funny how Timothy Treadwell was an EXPERT fer THIRTEEN YEARS while he "rubbed elbows" with them bears...



Then, ONE mishap 'n the press IMMEDIATELY puts him in quotes: Bear "Expert" has Grizzly Ending...

Thirteen years all fergotten in one head lyin'...


As fer Mr Fox, who really, really knows WHO offed him?


I mean, ya gotta remember yer history?



Newspaper headlines in the late 1700s: Boston Indians Throw Overtaxed Barrels Into Bay...


Sub-head: King George Tea-ed Off at Them "Indians"...




:(



www. the first casualty of war is TRUTH 'n all that stuff... .edu

Okay, after reviewin' a considerable amount of Treadwell literature 'n film footage...



Would I say that Timothy wuz INDEED an expert on Alaskan Brown Bears?


Yep.



Would I also say that Timothy wuz prob'ly fuckin' NUTS?!?



Yep.



But that's jest an Odder point of few...



:(



www. his story is worth a LOTTA ponderin'... 'cuz I think he's interestin' in his own right, but I also think there's a whole lot MORE Timmy Treadwell's out there who've had ENUFF of our wunnerful Modern World .org



www. i hope ta hear more from y'all, whether ya diss agree or diss 'n NOT agree... .org



;)

Actually, though, this thread properly belongs ta the subject of Mr Fox of who I ain't really been followin' enuff ta give any proper response more than what I already did...



So then, perhapz Timmy should be reintroduced in anuther thread?



Interestin' what ya brought up though, folks...

Originally posted by googs
Don't use retarded...that's just wrong...use stupid or something else.

Lol! Don't tell me what words I should or shouldn't use, mr. nauseating-political-correctness.

:confused:

Originally posted by googs
:confused:

First the Muslim comminity riots to tell elp's country what they can or can not print in their paper and now a specific Muslim tells him what words he can use. He is tired of being bossed around.

Originally posted by old-reb
First the Muslim comminity riots to tell elp's country what they can or can not print in their paper and now a specific Muslim tells him what words he can use. He is tired of being bossed around.
Well sorry for being a descent guy.

Originally posted by googs
Don't use retarded...
Why not?

Originally posted by The Praetorian
Why not?

Simply because using it in that manner is not the correct application of that particular term.

Why the big deal? People that I've known who have mentally disabled children can often be deeply hurt by making 'retarded' synonymous with 'stupid' or other words. Same with words like 'fag' to homosexuals, or other derisive terms. I don't mean to sound "preachy" to you Prae, but little things like that can make a big difference, and you (an upper-class, midde-aged, white American male) may be unfamiliar with facing degradation so often.

Originally posted by old-reb
He is tired of being bossed around.

I think you're digging to deep into this, it seemed he was being inconsiderate more than anything else.

On another note, guerilla--what a find, that was hilarious.

I don't want people to tell me what words I can or cannot post. And I do hate political correctness.

Originally posted by Evakian
Simply because using it in that manner is not the correct application of that particular term.

Why the big deal? People that I've known who have mentally disabled children can often be deeply hurt by making 'retarded' synonymous with 'stupid' or other words. Same with words like 'fag' to homosexuals, or other derisive terms. I don't mean to sound "preachy" to you Prae, but little things like that can make a big difference, and you (an upper-class, midde-aged, white American male) may be unfamiliar with facing degradation so often.
ROTF! I know that, Evak, but thanks for the tip anyway. :) Rest assured, the question was rhetorical...

BTW, I'm not "middle aged", you little punk. ;) You'd curb that tongue if you knew what was good for you!

Originally posted by The Praetorian
ROTF! I know that, Evak, but thanks for the tip anyway. :) Rest assured, the question was rhetorical...

Rhetorical questions are like Oprah Winfrey, they'd better serve mankind in a coffin in the cold, cold ground.

BTW, I'm not "middle aged", you little punk. ;) You'd curb that tongue if you knew what was good for you!

We've had this discussion before, I'm rounding up. You're nearing 30, and so enter the age bracket of "middle-aged" for the next couple decades.