{"id":1489,"date":"2003-04-13T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2003-04-13T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:20:00","slug":"meat-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/13\/17\/20\/meat-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I found three photos that illustrate how quickly a complex human being can be reduced to a piece of meat and all his varied drives reduced to a single post-mortem cause. This the essence of martyrdom, whether it&#8217;s suicide bombers, peace activists, or US troops sent to fight for oil. Before their deaths they have the ability to stand for a great many things &#8211; after their deaths the meat that&#8217;s left is just a political butcher prop on which competing ideologues frantically carve simple, reductionist meanings.<\/p>\n<h5>Before<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/030411\/168\/3rsq3.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Webstore\/Israel%20-%20Sharon%20Declares%20War\/ThomasHurndall00.jpg\" alt=\"British peace activist Thomas Hurndall sits on the floor of a home in Rafah, minutes before he left to participate in a protest at which he suffered a gunshot wound to the head, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2003. Hurndall, age 21, from Manchester, England, had been standing between Israeli troops and Palestinian children when Israeli soldiers opened fire, according to a fellow activist from the International Solidarity Movement who witnessed the scene. He was declared brain dead after arrival at a Gaza hospital.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>During<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story2&#038;u=\/030411\/168\/3rsmy.html&#038;e=7&#038;ncid=996\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Webstore\/Israel%20-%20Sharon%20Declares%20War\/ThomasHurndall01.jpg\" alt=\"A British peace activist going only by the name Alice cries for help as she holds her hand over the headwound of British peace activist Thomas Hurndall, who had been shot in the head moments earlier, at the start of a protest, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, April 11, 2003. Hurndall, age 21, from Machester, England, had been standing between Israeli troops and Palestinian children when Israeli soldiers opened fire, according to a fellow activist from the International Solidarity Movement who witnessed the scene. Hurndall was declared brain dead after arrival at a Gaza hospital.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>After<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/030412\/161\/3rwep.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/Webstore\/Israel%20-%20Sharon%20Declares%20War\/ThomasHurndall02.jpg\" alt=\"Peace activist Tom Hurndall is rushed into Israel's Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva April 11, 2003, after he was shot and critically wounded by Israeli troops. Israeli troops shot the 21-year-old Briton as he was helping Palestinian children cross a street under gunfire Friday, fellow activists and hospital officials said. Hurndall was one of 12 members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who Thursday went to the Rafah refugee camp on the Egyptian border to protest at continued Israeli shooting in the area, said ISM member Nick Smith.\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2003_03_30_WeekArchive.php#92474540\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I found three photos that illustrate how quickly a complex human being can be reduced to a piece of meat and all his varied drives reduced to a single post-mortem cause. 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