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We're body-snatchers, because we came and incarnated into these human bodies, and now we are leaving these human bodies behind. These are the words of Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, recorded in a farewell video shortly before group members committed mass suicide in 1997.
Handicams are valuable tools in human rights work, but they can also be used for nefarious purposes. This affordable, accessible technology has been used by right-wing militia groups to make training videos, by cults like Heaven's Gate, and by terrorists to record their missions and recruit new members.
Think how skillfully Osama Bin Laden has used a camcorder to make his case. He always looks in control and lording it over wherever he is. All that has been achieved by being pretty good at performing for a camcorder.
There is a potential downside to this tidal wave of bad things that these little cameras allow us to experience. They are terribly disturbing tools of vicious propaganda as well as shedding light in dark places, cautions documentary filmmaker Leslie Woodhead.
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