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[camwyn]

*eyes the LONDON news this morning*

Oh, fucking hell.

NOT COOL, YOU HEAR ME? NOT COOL.

quintus? May I have permission to come over there and exercise my prerogative as an American to be an arrogant violent bastich at the people responsible until they whimper and bleed from new and innovative places?

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[camwyn]

Urf. Here I must revert back to my LJ entry of 19 April:

...men who thought that by unleashing ammonium nitrate hell upon a building full of people whose only crime was being part of a System, they could change this country for their idea of the better. I'm told they were under the impression that striking at the government in an openly violent manner would cause people all over the rest of the country to rise up alongside them and overthrow that System. Could be that's what they thought. Could be they thought other things. I dunno. All I know's what I read in the papers, and see on the Web, and hear on the radio and see on TV. I've never been inside those two heads. I've seen a lot of vileness in my life and I don't much want to add more if I don't have to. I do know this, though.

The men who did this thought they were accomplishing a very great thing. Or at least a very important thing, whether it was particularly big o great or not. They thought they would be part of making something critical happen. Maybe they thought they were heroes for it, in their own way. Heroes get remembered.

These guys don't deserve to be.

These men were brass-balled cowards. They weren't afraid to kill for what they thought was right, but did they kill people who had offered them violence? Nope. Did they pick a target that was capable of defending itself? Nope. Did they attack someone whose death would stop some kind of critically important policy, or whose absence would make it immensely difficult for the System to continue doing the stuff that they thought was so wrong? Uh-uh. The Murrah Building was stuffed with bureaucrats and families. Important bureaucrats, maybe, but not exactly the kinds of people who could set national policy forward or back by their actions. Lousy target. Lousy tactic. Lousy strategy. And the guys who blew it up thought they'd be starting off the most important war of their time by doing it...

Find the killers, un-speak their names, remember the deeds.

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Hear hear. Remember the deeds, so that they are never repeated again.