What's Glenn Greenwald doing to help those missing girls?

[Drunken Irishman]

My guess is nothing. Unless it can help him sell a book. Then he'd be all over it.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. Journalism for fame & profit

part of the new globalization...

[Obnoxious_One]

19. Speaking of profit! Check out who sponsored this event.

[Archae]

2. There is nothing he CAN do.

None of us, least of all Obama, can do diddly squat to help those girls.

They are in the hands of vicious fundy Muslim radicals, the only (and I say *ONLY*) person who can do anything is the head of that Boku Harum group.

[Electric Monk]

9. +1

[pnwmom]

15. Obama can provide drones to do surveillance, as well as other military assets.

It's just not true that Obama couldn't help, if the Nigerian government wanted him to.

[baldguy]

35. B..b..b..but ... DRONES ARE THE EEEVEEELL!!

[arely staircase]

3. bullshit

He is putting the blame where it clearly blongs - with Obama. And then he will sue those girls for all they are worth.

[Egnever]

10. Thanks Obama

[L0oniX]

49. +1

[Cha]

4. Fuck all.. but, he jumps right in.. "asshole" and all.

[arely staircase]

8. asshole first nt

[Cha]

13. No doubt.

[Cha]

17. not just any asshole.. "And that’s what Glenn Greenwald is: an asshole. An insufferable, pompous ass

-hole."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024928178

[1000words]

5. Mud!

[Spazito]

6. Yep, you nailed it....

he doesn't give a crap about those girls, he cares about how he can use their tragedy to further his agenda. He is despicable.

[OilemFirchen]

7. I don't think he has any obligation to help anyone.

That said, at the very least he could avoid exacerbating the situation and contributing to their misery.

Fuckhead has no filters, because he has no conscience.

[Cha]

14. You're right.. GG has no obligation to help anyone.. but being an asshole is high

on his list.

[Adrahil]

37. An Obligation? No. But Why the fuck would he shit on people who DO wanna help? NT

[JI7]

11. he used the missing girls for his own agenda and it's pathetic trying to see people defend it

"oh, what he meant was.................."

[JayhawkSD]

12. I actually didn't realize he was still around.

He has become so impressed with himself that he became his own medium, and I thought he had sort of disappeared up his own asshole.

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R

[Obnoxious_One]

18. What are you doing?

I hear that America is going to say some compassionate and sympathetic things. But in the end Nigeria doesn't have any valuable resources so too bad...

[maddezmom]

26. Yeah Nigeria has no valuable resources

[JI7]

27. funny because i have seen some now say that we "suddenly" got interest because of the oil

as if nobody knew about it before just because the conspiracy theorist didn't know about it.

[maddezmom]

33. Yep

[Obnoxious_One]

47. I didn't know about, I'm shocked they must be selling their oil cheap

And not putting up too much resistance to Chevron, BP, Exxon, etc. Which is good. I'm glad that we don't have to demonize them and make up reasons to bomb another country or support a coup.

[Hekate]

30. Really? Wikipedia is your friend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria

[Obnoxious_One]

43. wiki, tells me that those resources are to hard too control

And that is why the country remains poor.

But the Ukraine. Now there's a beauty, no drilling required just take possession of the pipeline and watch the return on my investment of blood for oil roll in.

[NuclearDem]

42. Uh, you're kidding right?

OPEC member, 12th largest producer of oil and 8th largest exporter, and as a result, the single largest economy on the continent.

[Obnoxious_One]

44. awesome, we should find a reason to bomb them then.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. I don't really see that neo-colonialist intervention by Western powers is the answer.

Especially not when it looks set to open a new front in the war on terror. (Boko Haram, let's not forget, are radical Islamist insurgents.) We're just now pulling out of Afghanistan, should we be sending troops to Nigeria as well now? And there's something very paternalistic in the whole idea of "hey, you're obviously totally unfit to handle this yourself, so can we send in some troops to do it for you?"

And it's really amusing to see so many people who are adamantly against military intervention of any sort in Syria cheerleading for sending troops to Nigeria, now. I suppose if Assad were kidnapping schoolgirls people would think differently.

[Hekate]

29. Somehow the Nigerian govt had the wherewithal to post 6,000 troops in Abuja for the big conference

... but nothing for the missing girls until there was an international outcry. (Repeating what I've read here -- stats or gossip, you decide.)

Regardless of whether the Nigerian government is incompetent or merely corrupt, they did not bestir themselves significantly when those girls were taken and their school burned to the ground.

Maybe a few well-placed SEALS could be of assistance, you know? Or maybe this is the kind of occasion where a drone would be appropriate. Just not whole armies.

[Bluenorthwest]

38. Of course, Boko has been doing mass murders at schools regularly for months now and Nigeria did

nothing and the US certainly did nothing. The Nigerian government has engaged a pogrom against the gay population, the US did nothing. Post about it on DU and what you got was silence.
So this pretense that this crime is a new thing, that DUers who are outraged did not virtually sleep through at least 4 other school attacks killing dozens at a time is sort of hard to witness. Boko has killed thousands of people. Thousands. Torched dorms full of boys. Sprayed crowds with gunfire. Nigeria did nothing. Goodluck Jonathan and his wife are corrupt. They have had people protesting the kidnapping arrested. They are thieves, bigots and they practice genocide. I see folks here say 'if President Jonathan asks for help, we should thank him for letting us!'.
I wonder if the US will provide search teams and thus free up the Nigerian forces to continue their recent priority of rounding up gay people? Would DU support that? Should the US help directly in the pogrom, if Jonathan asks us to? 'We should thank him!'.

[m-lekktor]

21. maybe he will post and sad and pouty picture of himself holding a sign on twitter!!1

[Tarheel_Dem]

22. Sibel Edmonds calls it "Checkbook Journalism". I'm still waiting on his USSR expose.

[psiman]

24. It'll be a cold day in Brasil by the time that comes out

It cracks me up when people call Glenn a journalist; the man is a shyster-turned-internet-gadfly who exploited a short term association with the Guardian (a generally reputable newspaper) for fame and fortune.

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. What cracks me up is when people brag about his "awards". If I had a pet billionaire...

I could probably get him to buy me nice things too.

[Hissyspit]

53. You just have nothing, do you?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/nigeria-hashtags-wont-bring-back-our-girls-bringbackourgirls

'Dear world, your hashtags won't #BringBackOurGirls'

Thanks for your concern but calling for America rather than Nigeria to take action does more harm than good, says Jumoke Balogun

Simple question. Are you Nigerian? Do you have constitutional rights accorded to Nigerians to participate in their democratic process? If not, I have news for you. You can’t do anything about the girls missing in Nigeria. You can’t. Your insistence on urging American power, specifically American military power, to address this issue will ultimately hurt the people of Nigeria.

It heartens me that you’ve taken up the mantle of spreading “awareness” about the 200+ girls who were abducted from their school in Chibok; it heartens me that you’ve heard the cries of mothers and fathers who go yet another day without their child. It’s nice that you care.

Here’s the thing though, when you pressure western powers, particularly the American government, to get involved in African affairs and when you champion military intervention, you become part of a much larger problem. You become a complicit participant in a military expansionist agenda on the continent of Africa. This is not good.

You might not know this, but the United States military loves your hashtags because it gives them legitimacy to encroach and grow their military presence in Africa. Africom (United States Africa Command), the military body that is responsible for overseeing US military operations across Africa, gained much from #KONY2012 and will now gain even more from #BringBackOurGirls.

MORE

[Tarheel_Dem]

56. You mean, I don't have a pet billionaire? I already admitted that.

[Hissyspit]

23. What are you doing?

Besides making stuff up about Glenn Greenwald on a message board?

[L0oniX]

50. [phone]

[Whisp]

28. What a nasty little shit that one is.

About as low as one can go - the turd hit bottom with this one.

[Hissyspit]

52. Bullshit.

Faux outrage misrepresenting what the point of his tweet was.

But you really don't care, do you?

[Douglas Carpenter]

31. EVen more importantly, What's he doing to help the Democratic Party? NOTHING!!!

[Douglas Carpenter]

32. while 90% of people here on DU are working night and day to release those poor girls!!

[elias49]

34. Yeah. Absolutely. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

36. THIS

[Bluenorthwest]

40. What did the OP do in Feb, when more than 40 children were burned to death by Boko in a dorm?

Or when a very similar mass murder of children happened in September, or the one in July? Boko has killed thousands of people, what did DU or the OP do about that?
This is not a new event, it is the most recent event in a long chain of brutal crimes against humanity going back months and years.

[Iggo]

39. Same thing you are. Maybe a little more.

[Bluenorthwest]

41. And you, what are you doing? This OP is stunningly incomplete without a report of your righteous

actions. Because anyone who'd post this while they were also doing nothing to help would be a hell of a hypocrite.

[Capt. Obvious]

45. Posting on DU

[randome]

46. He doesn't need to do shit.

But apparently he can't keep his big, narcissistic, Libertarian mouth shut. If you're not going to help, Greenwald, just shut the hell up.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)[/center][/font][hr]

[Hissyspit]

54. Do you ever take your own advice?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/09/nigeria-hashtags-wont-bring-back-our-girls-bringbackourgirls

And he's not a Libertarian.

[L0oniX]

48. Jeeze ...Did you get up from the wrong side of the bed this morning?

Vitamin B can help.

[Arkana]

51. Wait, what did he do?

[Maven]

55. Obviously not important #hashtagging like you!

Like, OMG!