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Difficult to believe that it's five years since the London Bombings - spooky driving along the M25 and seeing signs "London Closed" an fleets of ambulances being escorted on the hard shoulder by Police - something was very, very wrong. I listened to most of it on the radio that night in Belgium. Strange times indeed
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I wish this terrorist act wasn't known by the name "7/7 bombing" - it's not as very descriptive, and it's hard to keep track! It was a "bad do".
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It was indeed a 'bad do'....however, 52 (IIRC?) people were killed that day which is a tragedy for those involved, but, since then, approximately 13 THOUSAND people have been killed in RTAs on UK roads. Which rather puts it into perspective in the grand scheme of things. You don't hear of memorial services each week for the same number of people that are killed in, mostly avoidable, RTAs....:-((
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Not a good analagy though.
No-one goes out on the road with the intention of killing someone.
The intention on 7th July 05 was to kill more than one.
It was a deliberate and well planned act.
Pat
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And since then, 15 THOUSAND people have died in accidents in the home.
And 45 THOUSAND people have died from obesity.
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If an invading force should kill my innocent loved ones then i shall extract the most hideous revenge i can before they get me too.
This view in no way supports those that committed the London atrocities.
The foul regime of bullying those who don't heed to our way of hypocritical democracy into submission by invasion will always have dire consequences, reaping whats sown.
Asian and Middle Eastern peoples generally support one another and value family and like, something Westerners seem to have abandoned in favour of the worship of mamon.
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Yeah, and millions have died worldwide in wars and from malnutrition and preventable diseases. But they weren't all murdered at once in a pointed fashion by a modern type of environmental lunatic, a whole organised group of the monkeys in fact. That, in a way, is what is being commemorated.
It was a bad do, but one that is well worth thinking about. How do people get like that? Can anything be done to make such behaviour rarer? Or is a new kind of universal psychic surveillance the way to go?
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7/7 Fifth anniversary. - FotheringtonTomas
