First I want to thank the Bull Shido forum for allowing people to join and post on this topic even though we are not practicing martial artists, but simply humans affected by the video.
I just spent the last 5 hours reading every post of the investigation thread and most of the posts in this thread. I greatly respect the work the members of this community have done in seeing an unethical event with in your peer group and are attempting to correct an injustice. I applaud your efforts.
I am posting because I think I have something relevant to add to your investigation but don't want to assume to much by posting in the main thread.
First, I am of BJB's generation so I know what I am looking at. Second, I was a nurse at a V.A. hospital and took care of Viet Nam era and WW2 era vets so I understand the mind set of a man who has seen combat. And last, I grew up with a sociopath who abused me badly and have PTSD which helps me see something more in this video.
A couple of corrections to comments in the investigation thread: No, the man who got the beat down is not dressed strangely. LOL He was dressed perfectly normal for a "Mowtown Generation" young man. He would have fit in the black communities answer to the "Hippy Generation." That leads me to the other misconception, this was not a race issue, it was a class conflict. Anyone dressed like this man was, would have engendered a powerful reaction form a Viet Nam vet due to the awful reaction they got from "Those Damned Hippies" when they returned home.
Let me very clear, nothing I am about to say excuses or condones this event in any way, it just might help folks have some deeper understanding.
Anyone, and this applies to returning Vets to this day, who has been in brutal combat has got to find inside of themselves a vicious animal. In Viet Nam is was primal jungle, hand to hand combat to the death. No bell rang to end a round. Your life depends on your ability to be cut throat and be part of a disciplined pack that has a code of honor. Not civilian honor but warrior honor.
In all wars some who make it back, never really make it back. Motorcycle gangs like the Hells Angels started with WW2 Vets. They needed to keep their pack of warriors together. That's what I see in that video, people who are doing what we see in the middle east as "honor killings." (not to say a killing happened here) I have seen that look on mens faces before, the distain for the pretender warrior.
Call it sick, and it is, but it is also men who got a switch turned for a war and it never shut off.
So I ask you to temper your inquiries with insight, and make sure those men are never allowed to guide young minds again. Or at least not unless we are under attack by a ruthless enemy, then .. then you might need them.
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