Tom Zarek: Underserved by the otherwise excellent writers. Most of the anti-Gaeta sentiment I've heard is empty chatter, calling Gaeta "a coward" or "power mad" or "a weasel." Gaeta knew less than viewers know about Cylons, and from his perspective, indeed, from any logical human perspective of a character in the story, the mutiny and coup were logical responses to: a) a tyrannical presidential-military cliqu e that based its pursuit of Earth on what was originally a flat-out lie b) the centralisation of power in an unelected president ruling by cynical religious manip ulation which drifted into self-deluded fundamentalist zealotry and a messiah-complex c) an Executive who nearly succeeded in stealing an election d) a miltary strong-man who himself overthrew civilian rule, ruled by nepotism, undermined criminal inquiries he himself launched, and made clear he would overthrow any government he opposed e) a civilian-military clique of master-race Cap...
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However, your claim that "most people care about Ledger's death" is quite obviously false. Of 6 billion+ humans, very few have heard of the man. Of those who have, you really have no way at all of measuring how many "care," do you?
As well, you seem to imply that my posting indicates disdain for Ledger or indifference to his death. Neither was my point, and neither can be proven from my remarks.
Furthermore, the point of my post should have been obvious to anyone: news media who dwell on the death of one celebrity who lived a life of enormous privilege, while ignoring one of the largest death tolls since the Nazi death camps, are perpetrating a fraud against humanity.
Had an internet existed in 1944, and a version of me written a similar posting about the death of a movie star then while mass-murder raged across Europe, I wonder if the 1944-version of you would have missed the point just as spectacularly.
Each situation is sad but Heath's affected me more. I won't apologize for that.
Your sarcasm--or perhaps just blatant error--about "6 billion people who died in ... Congo" proves my point. You *should* know more, and you *should* care more. And that you're so proud of yourself that you *announce* you won't apologise, yet you won't even sign your name, speaks to the problems with your value system.
You casually, even proudly, admit that the deaths of 5.4 million African people are of less concern to you than the death of one White person. This is exactly the attitude that the Nazis counted on to continue their mass-murder.
So long as people "care" more for individual celebrities than for the plight of millions of people whose suffering supplies affluent Westerners with the metals and minerals that make cell phones, lap tops, jet engines and jewelry possible, we will a world full of misery and oppression.