Lest We Forget.
On Thursday, 37 innocent people, minding their own business, going to work, were killed, 700 or so more injured, because someone didn't like what their Prime Minister was doing in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What bothers me most about this is twofold: 1) People have been left without family members, without friends - to mourn. Needlessly. Pointlessly.
2) No one is going to learn a goddamned thing from this. This is going to be just fuel for the fire.
2) Cont'd: All this incident does is give more power and justification for violence to the same biggots who started the whole mess in the first place. This is just another example of nonsense Blair can use as justification to push his agenda, killing innocent people overseas with the aid of his compadres, which will in turn result in more terrorist attacks on innocent people, which will in turn result in more justification for 'The War on Terror' (which kills innocent people), and so on and so forth to infinity.
The tragic bit is that the process is not Darwinian. No one that should be getting killed is actually getting killed.
Bush is still broadcasting weekly, spewing his evil.
Blair is still as big-eared and satan-like on television as ever.
Bin Laden is still somewhere, up and about, on dialysis, probably... but around.
The world is no better a place now then it was in 2001 when this 'War on Terror' began (in fact, I'd argue it's way worse) - which begs the question - couldn't there have been a better way (isn't there a better way?) to fight terror then with bombs on innocents, eliciting more anger, more terror? This approach (bombing into submission) clearly isn't working, why not try something new?
Wouldn't a more effective approach be better diplomacy so that the entire freaking world didn't hate your goddamned guts (rightfully, because you killed a whole slew of their people like cowards from the sky, not even giving them a chance to fight you back in any way - being the most powerful nations in the world and all) so much they wanted to blow up some of your innocent civilians? And isn't there any way you can blow up the politicians who are ruining your lives instead of wasting fire-power on regular average Joes who clearly have no sway as far as fighting wars in your country is concerned? I mean, take this incident for example. Blair isn't going to pull out of Iraq 'cause you killed 37 Londoners on their way to work. So all you did was kill some people. And, guess what? Not in the mix? BLAIR. So the exercise was totally futile.
Just like this rant.
I don't know who I'm directing these questions at. Clearly it's not at Bush or Blair, because their interest is clearly not to end terror. They need terror to scare people into letting them do what they're doing.
It's clearly not directed at the terrorists - these people are angry, and possibly chemically unbalanced (like their Western politician counterparts), and they believe violence will somehow solve something.
On both sides, the violence is directed at innocent people, who had nothing to do with anything. So, my questions are directed at those people, I suppose: The innocent.
Because neither guilty side seems to notice the disconnect, I'm throwing these questions out there to those people, who, like me, are just sitting around, watching the shit hit the fan all around them, wondering when the police will show up and break up this raucous party - because just one more dance with the lampshade on his head is all it will take for Bush to literally bring the house down.
I'm throwing this idea out to them, that violence begets violence - proven, AND NOBODY IS TELLING ANYONE TO STOP. We're all sitting around waiting for the cops that no one's called, for the hero that isn't coming.
It's time someone stood up and yelled:
IT'S MAKING ME DIZZY.
I WANT TO HURL.
STOP THE FUCKING RIDE.
Otherwise, am I supposed to live in fear because retards are running the world?
That seems silly. Tragic. And completely and utterly hopeless.
All it takes for evil to prevail in this world, is for good men to sit by and do nothing.
Lest We Forget.
July 7, 2005.
What bothers me most about this is twofold: 1) People have been left without family members, without friends - to mourn. Needlessly. Pointlessly.
2) No one is going to learn a goddamned thing from this. This is going to be just fuel for the fire.
2) Cont'd: All this incident does is give more power and justification for violence to the same biggots who started the whole mess in the first place. This is just another example of nonsense Blair can use as justification to push his agenda, killing innocent people overseas with the aid of his compadres, which will in turn result in more terrorist attacks on innocent people, which will in turn result in more justification for 'The War on Terror' (which kills innocent people), and so on and so forth to infinity.
The tragic bit is that the process is not Darwinian. No one that should be getting killed is actually getting killed.
Bush is still broadcasting weekly, spewing his evil.
Blair is still as big-eared and satan-like on television as ever.
Bin Laden is still somewhere, up and about, on dialysis, probably... but around.
The world is no better a place now then it was in 2001 when this 'War on Terror' began (in fact, I'd argue it's way worse) - which begs the question - couldn't there have been a better way (isn't there a better way?) to fight terror then with bombs on innocents, eliciting more anger, more terror? This approach (bombing into submission) clearly isn't working, why not try something new?
Wouldn't a more effective approach be better diplomacy so that the entire freaking world didn't hate your goddamned guts (rightfully, because you killed a whole slew of their people like cowards from the sky, not even giving them a chance to fight you back in any way - being the most powerful nations in the world and all) so much they wanted to blow up some of your innocent civilians? And isn't there any way you can blow up the politicians who are ruining your lives instead of wasting fire-power on regular average Joes who clearly have no sway as far as fighting wars in your country is concerned? I mean, take this incident for example. Blair isn't going to pull out of Iraq 'cause you killed 37 Londoners on their way to work. So all you did was kill some people. And, guess what? Not in the mix? BLAIR. So the exercise was totally futile.
Just like this rant.
I don't know who I'm directing these questions at. Clearly it's not at Bush or Blair, because their interest is clearly not to end terror. They need terror to scare people into letting them do what they're doing.
It's clearly not directed at the terrorists - these people are angry, and possibly chemically unbalanced (like their Western politician counterparts), and they believe violence will somehow solve something.
On both sides, the violence is directed at innocent people, who had nothing to do with anything. So, my questions are directed at those people, I suppose: The innocent.
Because neither guilty side seems to notice the disconnect, I'm throwing these questions out there to those people, who, like me, are just sitting around, watching the shit hit the fan all around them, wondering when the police will show up and break up this raucous party - because just one more dance with the lampshade on his head is all it will take for Bush to literally bring the house down.
I'm throwing this idea out to them, that violence begets violence - proven, AND NOBODY IS TELLING ANYONE TO STOP. We're all sitting around waiting for the cops that no one's called, for the hero that isn't coming.
It's time someone stood up and yelled:
IT'S MAKING ME DIZZY.
I WANT TO HURL.
STOP THE FUCKING RIDE.
Otherwise, am I supposed to live in fear because retards are running the world?
That seems silly. Tragic. And completely and utterly hopeless.
All it takes for evil to prevail in this world, is for good men to sit by and do nothing.
Lest We Forget.
July 7, 2005.
posted by captain obvious at 11:30 p.m.
7 Comments:
Have you totally forgotten what we are? Have you forgotten that humans hate. Humans are jealous, humans are irrational and hungry for violence no matter how much we ignore it. (or maybe thats just the men). The only reason we have somekind of peace now is because everycountry owns a weapon of such destruction that our entire race would be doomed to extiction if we used it.
I dont justify any act of violence that anybody does and i certinely do not condone Bush's war in Iraq and the terrorist attacks in London. Nonetheless I do not think that it was Bush's fault that the world trade center got bombed. The fact of the matter is that innocent people have been teh target of violence inf WWI or maybe even before then but it hasnt really been recorded before that time. Innocent people that live in the country that you are fighting against are the target becuase they fuel the Blairs and the Bushs. Thats why in WWII America bombed Dresden and why Germany Bombed Britain. Violence will continue until we are no longer human. Im sorry for having such a bleak world view but, it hasnt been proven otherwise.
i believe the term u are looking for dunja is "SHOCK AND AWE"
the tactic used to "REDEEM" countaries from their "PLIGHT"!!!
u.s.a attack countries claiming they have nukes, yet, the only country in history to use a nuke on anyone has been the u.s.a themselves
You don't have the manpower or the firepower to fight what you perceive is your oppressor. What do you have? Willpower. The will to blow yourself up and innocents along with you for your purpose.
The sad truth is that terrorism IS an effective way to cause change. It can make victory taste bitter and it can send a message to the world about your purpose and your determination.
And terrorism is nothing new: A terrorist is just the modern day freedom fighter who fights for the enemy. Isn't it ironic that if he fought for the 'other side' in today's world, George Washington would be considered a terrorist? A full circle; the oppressed has become the oppressor.
The count's higher now, in the fifties I believe. It's totally tragic, and the real scary part is, we're next.
Under my expertise, I think Toronto and specifically the TTC will be the next target. I'm looking at Union and Bloor/Yonge Station as two very possible targets. Frightening isn't it?
you're stupid, canada will never be a target
There's no need to call anyone names - if you can't be constructive, don't comment.
Thanks to everyone else for contributing to the discussion. I wanted to get people talking. Awesome.
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