Caitlin Johnstone:
It's like everyone's standing around watching a man beat a small child to death at a restaurant.
"Should we do something?" someone asks.
"You saw the kid throw food at the guy," someone replies. "The man has a right to defend himself."
"It's a fight. Bad things happen in a fight."
"Yeah, the boy shouldn't have started a fight he can't win."
And yeah, maybe it's true the child did set his father off by throwing food at him.
Maybe the child did so fully knowing that it would send the man into a murderous rage, because the man had been horrifically abusing the child his entire life.
Maybe instigating a physical confrontation in full view of the public was the child's last desperate attempt to expose the man's depravity, in the hope that everyone would finally see what's happening and do something to stop the abuse.
But nobody's stopping it, because the man has spent years charming and befriending everyone in town — or frightening and intimidating them if that's easier.
So now everyone's watching a grown man beat a child to death and pretending they're watching a fight, when they all know deep down what they're really watching is a cold-blooded murder by a cold-hearted man, who should have been stopped and locked away a long time ago.
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