tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post8467962623562617453..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Why Communicate?Gus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-70571067505442745802011-05-05T15:43:13.945-06:002011-05-05T15:43:13.945-06:00Thanks for the kind words and for mentioning the e...Thanks for the kind words and for mentioning the earlier precedent of releasing photos of dead mobsters (and how it was done). I had not been aware of that.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-32799433615059547792011-05-05T15:19:06.154-06:002011-05-05T15:19:06.154-06:00Good analysis of faulty premise behind not showing...Good analysis of faulty premise behind not showing photos of OBL dead, for fear of offending anyone's sensibilities. I'd not grasped explicitly before how this worry over offending theocratic/superstitious/primitive mentalities had become pervasive and overt in the present Administration, and accepted by many others as reasonable. <br /><br />As someone on the radio remarked J.Edgar Hoover and the FBI released many photos of dead mobsters (blood washed off, of course, but plenty of bullet holes) throughout the 1930's, perhaps longer. Those photos were intended to deter and to announce that the FBI had scored one on the gangsters.<br /><br />The present occupant of the White House has no desire to do either. <br /><br />Roxanne A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com