Dreadful news from London today. But you know all about that of course.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lives will have been irrevocably changed by this, if you count the extended families and friends of those killed, suffering from burns, who've received amputations or who've been just plain traumatised through their involvement.
As usual, I expect the media to go into overdrive now and, no doubt, by tomorrow night, I'll be sick of hearing about it.
The people will just get on with it though - as it should be.
One of my reactions was - this happens in Baghdad every day and all it merits is a "today in Baghdad, 40 people were killed in a car-bomb attack and now, here's the latest on what David and Victoria Beckham are up to..."
So let's get things into perspective.
Why is it such a huge outrage that this happens in London but hardly causes an eyebrow to be raised if it happens in Iraq?
We are at war and so it's to be expected - indeed all the experts are now saying it was inevitable this would happen - ok so why the big shock?
But why are we at war?
Some websites are already suggesting that it was covert western secret service groups who carried out a "false flag" attack on their own people so that further incursions into our freedom could be pushed through.
I saw reference made in the media today to the bombing in Bologna in the early 1980's. It is suspected by people as respected as ex Italian Premier Aldo Moro, that this was carried out by right wing facist groups with ties to Western Governments to force the Italian people to accept greater measures against left-wing political groups which held views contrary to the mainstream....
After the destruction of the World Trade Centre in 2001 and all the anomalies regarding what actually happened that day and in the lead up to it, I have doubts about almost every major event that happens which allows our governments to further erode our rights.
Do have a look around this site which compares the events of September 11, 2001 with those of 27 February 1933...http://www.oilempire.us/911.html
"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Goering
Anyway, watched another two episodes of Star Trek Enterprise then surfed the net. A trojan appeared on my security sweep of the computer - I hope I zapped it before any damage was done to the system.
I trawled through other blogs till 2 am, bookmarking several to my favourites but not the one that was headed up "Ian's Blog - this will be read by my family and friends and by other people who know me and by creepy weirdos trawling the net" - that was a bit too close to the bone.....
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