Next time you hear the phrase 'collateral damage,' I want you to leap up out of your chair and start screaming Too boat-rocking for you? Too impolite? People will question your sanity? Your urbanity? .. You get to scream. The dead are very quiet. Perfectly polite. Perfectly polite are the collaterally damaged. You get to scream the scream they can not. .. Doing what’s right ain’t comfortable, ain’t polite. Solidarity of the living. The civil right to remain unmaimed..

goldsworthy helbeck crags cumbria 

Well, if every damn one of us leapt up and started screaming any time we heard some obscene mealy-mouthed insane euphemism like collateral damage, may be we could make a dent in their denial systems that lead to mutilated children – not collateral damage – children mutilated.   more »