Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Yep, I was wondering when someone would connect that and that is one of the distinct differences between Americans and British, for we have had in living memory, another country attacking the civilian population with war machinery, for the Blitz was a war on the people of Britain, designed I believe to demoralise the British people. We have also suffered terrorist action long before the current Islamic activities so it could be said, the British are used to it, so it's not anything really new for us, we just deal as we always have.
But then all of a sudden the American mainland is the subject of a terrorist attack and off people go like headless chickens and we wonder what's going on, it's as if all eyes on us we have been attacked. Now the WTC being the WTC that is world trade centre we took to be an attack on the economic world, so we were included in that world, and many of our citizens died there, but it became apparent someone had a particular beef with America in particular because of the other targets and aircraft used. But regards our prior history of terrorist actions against our population we wonder where were America's eyes when our people were being shot and blown up in shopping arcades, pubs and days of national pride. The bomb that was detonated in the town of Warrington, I have personal experience of that, and believe me it scared the shit out of me and I was a few streets away from the detonation.
One thing I do remember from the time was a general feeling of distrust of allies who were known to be funding those who attacked our civilian population via an organisation called Noraid, but also at the time the terrorists were being funded by so called rogue states, Libya amongst them, so where was the difference between the rogue states and those we called allies.
From my birth in 1967 right through to the 1990's, terrorist actions against us was forever in our minds, because it was real,it was happening and it could happen anywhere and we were all very aware, so much so with certain events in certain locations a shark watch scheme was implemented, a watcher who stays off the booze and watches people that come in.
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha
Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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