While the anointed masters of modern morality discuss the layers of consent over recent revelations between ‘Jane Doe’ and the Cornell 7, or with all the vigour of Christian conservatives during the Satanic panic the outraged want to ban school girl uniforms from, porn, as costumes, strip shows, or outlaw porn itself. A school girl was decapitated on her way home from exams. The school bus she was in, was ripped by an explosion, her young life ended. A moment of gory snuff porn for the masters of war, and their enablers. Those who rationalise it’s legitimacy, or conjure up with academic arrogance, that in fact this girl was a legitimate target. Or, to be relegated merely as collateral.
The media is mostly silent, the social media creatures and podcast class don’t care about her life, let alone her death. She isn’t really important to their impressions. No one can discuss it, or devour it with intrigue. Few can grandstand upon her corpse as a moral champion, that would mean no appeal to authority. Her killers were the Saudi coalition, they represent authority. They also have banned porn and school girls don’t wear skirts in the Kingdom, either. They have achieved what many of you want.
And, they kill school girls. As do most of your governments, past and present. They were, legitimate targets, or collateral as well.
The intentional murder of Iranian school girls earlier this year, remains as both a footnote for war, and an example of spiteful foreign policy. This happens in war. It’s true. But, is the US at war with Iran? What even is war? And why does that legitimise such? In the War on Vietnam, the Korean war, ‘the good war‘ that was World War Two, civilians were intentionally targeted. School girls were blown to pieces as they sat in school, during the American daylight raids, and as they lay in bed during the British night raids. The Japanese military would rape them to death and, depending on their racial value the German government would have exterminated them. Both, legitimate and legal authorities over those they ruled. Just war, total war, race codes and budo,
That there is no outrage, concern or viracy for fourteen year old Athir al-Amri’s death represents values. She, as a person only has value to those who know her. For the distant strangers peering at their phones, she is statistical fodder. One of them. An inferior. It’s not said out loud. It’s known. She isn’t an American girl. And if she was, it would depend on the rapist, trafficker or killer. If, those raping, kidnaping or killing happened to powerful, marred in conspiracy then it becomes political and, again the authority allows for the exception. If she is sleeping in her bed, when a police officer’s flash bang grenade burns her face away, it’s again, conjured up as some concept of legitimacy, drugs are bad, the parents are in the wrong. The police, again, had the wrong house. If it was the right one, would it then be legitimate? When at least forty Yemeni children were killed by Saudi coalition aircraft in 2018, the two school busses they rode in targeted. The coverage in the West was minimal, the support for the war against Yemen continued.
The Iranian school girls, it’s been reasoned, were the children of political and military officials. This some how makes them legitimate as targets. Would this mean any child linked to Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth are somehow legitimate targets? Or, those who go to school with the linked children?
When children are clumped together en masse, compiled as statistics and belong to another group, they have no credible agency. Or value. They can be killed. It’s why the many accounts from numerous witnesses, of children having been sniped, shot in the face, or the heart, in large numbers by Israeli soldiers is of little viral value. The children are Gazans. Today’s Biafrans. A people doomed to be genocided, eradicated and subjugated. Just as the Biafran of yesteryear are long forgotten and in their time barely registered of value, Gazans are also suffering in such a way.
The thought of Sir Jimmy Savile stabbing his penis into a reform girl, as she had been loaned out to him, is repulsive. It’s only now, after his death, that we are allowed to know such a thing. That it is repulsive was not of a concern for the authorities and elites who kept it all a secret. The reform girls, had no value. Savile on the hand was important. A knight. Just as the modern Japanese knights of the emperor raped the city of Nangking, or American soldiers did so to villagers in My Lai. Penis and bayonet savagely destroying many school girls. No porn. Just authority.
The terrifying violence suffered by the Iranian school girls, as they experienced the double tap attack on them is hard to imagine. The death many suffered was not clean, or instant. Some were buried alive, suffocated in smoke and chemicals, others burned to death, some died from shrapnel and debris, others ripped in bits while they lay amidst the darkness and noise. Their school uniforms pried from them, their innocence soiled, virginal purity defiled by authority. Despite the horror, the indignity, it was done for some reason that government and media types invent with certainty. The outrage sifts into indifference…something about this happening in war.
There should be outrage, among those inside the comforts of the West, especially Americans. This is how the world knows of you. The frontiers are agitated, the injustice is shameful. And, once the West has banned pornography and wrapped it’s girls up with all the insecurity of authority, just like the Saudi coalition, it will decapitate the heads from school girls. That’s what should be outrageous. Bots online and the creatures of your feed, only care about what makes them money and engages you. It’s as cynical as that. Apparently a young girl in Yemen, or scores of them in Iran and Gaza, don’t really matter. Appeal to the authority of your own conscience as to why that is.
