If you have been living in a cave, then read this.
Somehow I managed to make it until almost 11 AM before I heard anything. The one morning I chose the I-Pod over NPR. What a shame. This just makes my stomach turn. Civilians died once again for no apparent reason. Those people were killed for decisions they had absolutely no say in that were done by their government. This was clearly planned since the G8 summit took much of the police force off patrolling the streets and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Olympic announcement had something to do with it.
I guess Bush’s proclamation “if you are not with us, you are against us” goes both ways, because the terrorists obviously see Britain as an equal partner and worthy of being attacked. The worst part is events like this bring out a side of me that I absolutely hate. As someone who always advocates peace and common ground discussions instead of outright violence, if you could strap an AK47 on my back and you could point me towards the people behind this, I wouldn’t hesitate for one second to unload every round into them. That scares me. That is NOT me.
It doesn’t scare me because I’m capable of that level of vigilante justice. It scares me because there are far more violent people who will use this to feed the fire and divert the anger everyone is feeling right now to further their cause. I’m sad today because the worst act humanity is capable of has cost more than 30 innocent people their lives. On top of it, I just want some blood and vengeance. If I knew who to fight, I would. Unfortunately that mystery is what keeps fueling the violence on both sides
Somehow I managed to make it until almost 11 AM before I heard anything. The one morning I chose the I-Pod over NPR. What a shame. This just makes my stomach turn. Civilians died once again for no apparent reason. Those people were killed for decisions they had absolutely no say in that were done by their government. This was clearly planned since the G8 summit took much of the police force off patrolling the streets and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Olympic announcement had something to do with it.
I guess Bush’s proclamation “if you are not with us, you are against us” goes both ways, because the terrorists obviously see Britain as an equal partner and worthy of being attacked. The worst part is events like this bring out a side of me that I absolutely hate. As someone who always advocates peace and common ground discussions instead of outright violence, if you could strap an AK47 on my back and you could point me towards the people behind this, I wouldn’t hesitate for one second to unload every round into them. That scares me. That is NOT me.
It doesn’t scare me because I’m capable of that level of vigilante justice. It scares me because there are far more violent people who will use this to feed the fire and divert the anger everyone is feeling right now to further their cause. I’m sad today because the worst act humanity is capable of has cost more than 30 innocent people their lives. On top of it, I just want some blood and vengeance. If I knew who to fight, I would. Unfortunately that mystery is what keeps fueling the violence on both sides
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