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Aneirin -> RE: Magazine raises questions over 3 detainee deaths (1/22/2010 8:25:22 PM)
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Exactly, Could, but more likely as they are now, be an inspiration, a reason and proof for disgruntled people to commit atrocities for, to the disgruntled, politicaly inspired or radical whatever, the incarceration of innocents is a reason to fight, kill and die for, it is the same the world over and history recorded.
Subway and London bus bombings, past IRA bombings, yes, in Britain, we have suffered terrorist actions before now, the present threat is nothing new, we have had cities bombed, meeting places, churches, parades and memorials bombed, the innocents are always the victim, but it was political hay for the IRA cause. All through my childhood and youth, when I could understand what the news shows were on about, all I remember is reports of IRA and what atrocities they had committed lately, who had been machine gunned, where had a nail bomb gone off, how many innocent people going about their business harming no one had been killed or maimed. My time in the forces, the threat was the Irish Republican cause, the Islamic extremists, who were they ? Now with the IRA largely tamed and they repentant on their old ways and making headway with the civilised way of doing things, we have a new bogeyman in our midst, another threat to contend with, the misguided Islamic extremist. But of those that have committed atrocities in this country, they have been investigated, hunted and brought to the law, those guilty have been incarcerated, and unfortunately some of the innocent, to be released later, set free and compensated, if any amount of money can be a substitute for humiliation and loss of freedom.
You see, that might be the difference between the US and the UK, we have suffered terrorist actions and threat for many years, we have been there, we know it, but now instead of those who speak with an Irish accent being suspect, it is the darker skined or follower of Islam who receives suspicion from some, perhaps the radical and disgruntled of our indigenous people.
Could it be even, whilst the US is it seems running around the world like a headless chicken trying to counter the threat it now personally feels, Britain is thinking hey shit, we have been here before, hey ho, carry on as normal and deal with it as it comes. There are even people still living that experienced Hitler's Blitz, my neighbour being one of them, her with tales of bombs raining down on a near nightly basis, not knowing if they would be alive to see the morning.
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