This functions as a mirror, asking whether we will metabolize these deaths as fuel for deeper embodiment, integrating the shadow of institutional violence so that it transforms into wings of light or remain hypnotized by the surface story, thereby consenting to the very forgetting these men, however flawed, refused.
In the non-dual view, even the apparent silencing is consciousness exploring itself through the most extreme polarities and the true “whacking” is the moment we stop outsourcing our knowing to any authority and reclaim the sovereign capacity to feel, beyond all official scripts, when the veil has been torn.
Also, don’t forget the 12 scientist that have disappeared or died too.