Don’t get me wrong, though. Osama bin Laden is gone and that is a good thing for the world. But I think our immediate reaction to the news, as well as many people’s current craving for brutal assassination photographs exemplifies an inappropriately zealous reaction. The Salon article gets it right when it advocates the following: “[O]ur reaction… should be the kind often exhibited by victims’ families at a perpetrator’s lethal injection — a reaction typically marked by both muted relief but also by sadness over the fact that the perpetrators’ innocent victims are gone forever, the fact that the perpetrator’s death cannot change the past, and the fact that our world continues to produce such monstrous perpetrators in the first place.”

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-Colleen

P.S. Be enjoying you're an alum and not having finals right now!

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/05/03/quotes.twain.mlk/index.html?hpt=T2

I’ve seen others posting that quote by MLK and I think it fits really well. I hope that this continues to make us feel united as it did the other night on the quad, but you are right that it is crucial we now lead and act by highest example.

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” –Martin Luther King, Jr

(as is written in Slayter)

I can’t speak for my peers, perhaps some were indeed celebrating his death, but I do know that not everyone was, and therefore I do not think it is fair to generalize that to this campus gathering as a whole.

great for all that he’s off the planet – an event worthy of reflection, if not joy. now let’s ground ourselves in remembering an America that leads – and acts – by highest example.