"I watched as the anxious man on the bus...."

from JoeUser Forums

".....kept going into his bag"

That from an eye witness on the double decker bus that blew up in Tavistock Square, London. Link

Had it come from the likes of The Sun (which is a decent enough light read but sometimes a little alarmist and not really credible) I'd have discounted it.

But, it's from The Independent.  A newspaper that usually has it's facts straight and it's ducks in a row.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

If you read the article, you'll see that the BMA building was reported to be 'dripping with blood'.  A little exaggeration?  No.  I saw pictures of it earlier, and at first I thought it was shrapnel that has sullied the facade....until I looked a little closer and read the accompanying interview.  It WAS blood.  No exaggeration.

It's things like that, scenes like that, that I want to shove in the face of Jacque-ass Chirac and ask him then what his policy is.  I would like to take anyone who thinks that America had it coming on 9/11 or that Britan had it coming today, and stand them in fromt of that building and ask them then if ANY of the owners of that blood 'had it coming'.

Earlier today, I was sad.  I still am.  But that sadness is fading, and it's being surpassed by anger.  A small fury, smoldering in my stomach.

Fuck them.  Fuck them all. Fuck every last Al-Queda member, fuck the sympathsizers, fuck the hangers-on and the wanna-bes. 

Fuck 'em all.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's all just really horrible.

But if it can be used constructively...to unite the country and emphasize the importance of human relationships as well as refocus Britain's (and America's) efforts to fight terrorism...then tragedy has become triumph, though at a heart-breaking cost.

Thanks for sharing this.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

But if it can be used constructively...to unite the country and emphasize the importance of human relationships as well as refocus Britain's (and America's) efforts to fight terrorism...then tragedy has become triumph, though at a heart-breaking cost.

I saw a picture earlier of a Jewish man on the streets of DC, holding a simple piece of white card with the words 'Today, we are all British' printed on it.  It struck me that...well, that he was right.  Today, the streets of London knew no creed, no religion, no color.  Blacks, whites and in-betweens, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jews, Rastafarians and Athiests....they all came together in front of a common enemy.  People were helping each other...people who wouldn't have given the person they were sitting next to the time of day in the seconds before the explosions...they were helping each other away from the carnage.

They thought that they would divide us.  They failed.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
This sort of thing truly hurts, deep at the bottom of your soul. I can write about it. I can write a poem dedicated to the people who died. But nothing I can do now can save these people.

I feel sick.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

They thought that they would divide us. They failed.

They sought not to divide, just terrorize, so that the civilized world would run and hide and cower before their barbarity.  IN that, they totally failed to take into account the horrors that England has faced in the past.  They fought an enemy 60 years ago that targeted civilians then as well.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
This sort of thing truly hurts, deep at the bottom of your soul


Man's inhumanity to other men will do that to a person....

scares me to think of leaving Texas for D.C. next week....


Dude, you can't think like that. Seriously. I grew up in 1970's and 80's England when there was the constant IRA terror threat...in fact, I remember having gone to the Tower with my big bro for the day and him picking me up and running with me because we had to evacuate becuse of a bomb threat. If we had though about no-where being safe (which it wasn't, really) we'd never have gone anywhere or done anything. You have to be defiant, you have to show these fuckers that you're not going to be intimidated by the likes of them and you have to go about your daily business in spite of their actions.

that, they totally failed to take into account the horrors that England has faced in the past.


Yeah, they forgot that we faced Hitler and his Nazi's and we came through that.

Feel free to call if you need to vent.


I'm going to, probably later today....