Wretchard on the murder of Stephen Vincent, freelance journalist and blogger, in Iraq.
Whether Sunni killed Shi’ite or Shi’ite killed Sunni, Mr. Vincent knew murder when he saw it. It will be interesting to see whether the media will attribute Mr. Vincent’s death to “guerillas” or to “paramilitary death squads”. But in a sense it will not matter. He was witness to the necessity for honesty and the survival of outrage; conscious of how near death stands to all of us in the workaday world without watchful men ready to give the alarm with just words.
Michelle Malkin has an extensive roundup of reaction, while Ed Morrissey recalls his interview with Vincent a few months ago.
Via NRO; His family asks that donations be made in his name to Spirit of America.
Chilling…
Theodore Dalrymple:
“In an essay about journalism and the attractions of danger, he writes:
I have been sought by the South African secret police for having disregarded the laws of apartheid; I have seen the inside of a Balkan police station from the point of view of someone under arrest; I have been deported from Honduras to Nicaragua as a Communist . . . . There are few exhilarations greater than being completely beyond the reach of anyone who might help you�provided of course that the dangerous situation has been freely chosen and not imposed, and that there is somewhere safe to return to when the excitement has either worn off or become overwhelming.”
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/sum05/beck.htm