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The Religious Right's Battle Against Hate Crime Laws

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Spare O'Lake2/12/2010 9:02:07 pm PST

re: #477 Charles

I agree. It’s not propaganda and there’s nothing wrong with that photo. It was taken by a photographer embedded with the US military. It’s a factual portrayal of an event.

It’s a portrayal of an innocent civilian, who has obviously been forced to take off his shoes and who is obviously being terrorized at gunpoint and under blinding lights, by the US army.
The inclusion of the phrase “who was not detained” doesn’t quite defuse the prejudicial impact of the photo, IMHO.
Factual or not, it is still propoganda.