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I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25138]

Thu, 07 July 2005 12:53

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

The incidents in London this morning have been unpleasant, but are really not unexpected. Anyone would have expected London to become a terror target with the Olympics being awarded yesterday. Add that tothe G8 Summit and attempts to disrupt that, and you have prime publicity for malefactors.

In the UK we are used to bombings from WW1 (few) WW2 (many, and yes we bombed too) and the IRA (funded by Noraid, mostly). We tend to react with initial shock and then ignore it.

Our hearts are with the victims and families.

[Updated on: Thu, 07 July 2005 13:01]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25139 is a reply to message #25138]

Thu, 07 July 2005 13:34

cchd

Getting started

Registered: May 2004
Messages: 16

My thoughts go out to everyone affected by this.

I'm still trying to contact my cousin David who works in the centre of London and I've e-mailed the rest of my relations and colleagues in the UK to check that they're OK.

What can one say?

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25140 is a reply to message #25139]

Thu, 07 July 2005 14:11

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

In general the incidents themselves are not huge compared with the enormous size of London. Current news bulletins show a surprisngly small number of casualties of all sorts, which is fortunate, except if you are one of them or know or love one.

I know I sound detatched over this. That is the way we have always handled this type of atrocity, and I pray will always remain the way we handle it.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25142 is a reply to message #25140]

Thu, 07 July 2005 17:52

Getting started

Location: Norn Iron
Registered: May 2005
Messages: 8

timmy wrote:
>> I know I sound detatched over this. That is the way we have always
>> handled this type of atrocity

After 30 years of attacks form the IRA I think everyone in the UK has realised that doing anything other than getting on with things only plays into the hands of the terrorists. All this will achieve is filling a few day's news papers, nothing will change for Londoners or the rest of the UK.

"I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality."

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25143 is a reply to message #25142]

Thu, 07 July 2005 19:04

Jim Pettit

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Location: United States
Registered: June 2005
Messages: 121

I'm very sorry about your killed and wounded. No number is too small for a family that lost a loved one or had a brother maimed. I hope you don't forget so easily...like sheep in the slaughter house. Confused

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25144 is a reply to message #25143]

Thu, 07 July 2005 19:13

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13796

We don't forget. But we have had many decades of rubbish like this. We simply are coldly angry. The main thing we do is not allow it to interfere with our lives.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: I don't really want this to become a topic [message #25145 is a reply to message #25144]

Thu, 07 July 2005 19:28

On fire!

Location: Worcester, England
Registered: January 2005
Messages: 1560

see

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/005167.php

whuich says it far better than I ever could.

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King

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