July 11, 2005 - Yet if we bombed Bagdad we'd expect them to be thankful for "liberation"?
I'm writing this now because I'm getting fed up with our government and media being so arrogant in response to the London bombings which happened last Thursday.
When the government proposed a war in Iraq, Britain's population protested against it, no one wanted it to happen, especially as more lies and deceit were uncovered. When a population is unjustly brought to its knees, like an animal trapped in a corner by its preditor, there's only so much it can take before having no choice but to fight back. If the animal has taken so much beating that it cannot fight back, the animal will have to depend on a nearby member of its species to come and defend it.
This scenario was realised last Thursday. The endangered species fought back for survival, killing (as the current figure stands) 52 people, and injuring around 700 more. 752 of Britain's innocent population were directly affected by the bombings which were in a retaliation for a war these people never wanted. We all kow who to thank:
I would have thought that these bombings would teach us a lesson. I thought it would make people think like Iraqi's. Sure, a large number of us now live in fear not knowing when the next bomb's going to be, or where, or who will be taken down as a result of its explosion and sure, a lot of us are thinking "but we're innocent people, we don't deserve this". But people fail to care about the fact that for the last few years, people in Iraq have been living like this every day. Sure we're innocent, and not only are the Iraqi people, but think of all the people currently in Palistine, Dafur and Guantanamo Bay. Even though we're innocent, London had just as much reason to be bombed as any city in Iraq. The people who were killed had just as much right to be killed by terrorists as people in Iraq have the right to be killed innocently by us.
Let me add the fact that even though both groups of people have had equal rights to death, I'm not saying that they deserved to die in any sense of the word. They had by far greater rights to live, just on the count of being innocent civilians; neither parties have deserved what came to them. I'm not a pasifist, but I firmly believe this slaughter of both side's shouldnt be happening, but we're going to be terrorised for as long as we terrorise other, and for what cause?
Why would I have thought these bombings would teach us a lesson? Well lets look at the Madrid bombings:
In 1442, the Spanish ruler decided to be make Spain a strictly catholic country, like what was going on in Britain at the time. As s reult, Muslims and Jews were forced to either convert, or were killed/exiled.
When the police arrived in the car park outside the Madrid bomber's place of residence, they blew up the appartment block with themselves in it. Among the wreckage, the police found a recording of 3 hooded men, saying "this is for 1442". What did the Spanish government do in response? They pulled their troops out of Iraq. They relaxed immigration laws against North Africa and the Middle East. They gave more religeous freedome to everyone, including non-Muslims and non-Jews.
As a result of this? Spain hasn't received a single bomb threat, and many immigrants in Spain, particularly morrocans, now say (and Iquote from a morrocan): "I used to have extremist views about spain, as have many others, but now I respect it as a nation".The way i see it, both sides have succeeded in this case. The terrorists got what they wanted, and Spain is now at peace, and will probably never hear from terrorists again.
Spain has had an identical history to Britain as far as terrorism goes. We've never been attacked by middle easterners, or "Islamic extremists" until this one off occasion, but we've always known terrorism in the form of the IRA (Irish Republican Army). Spain has never been attacked by middle easterners or "Islamic extremists", but has always known terrorism in the form of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), a group of people who want to see the Basque country become a republic, free of Spanish and French rule.
The difference between the two nations is how the nations responded to the attacks in their capital cities. Spain got it right, we however, have fallen down the same line as the US did, and it is for what i am about to mention that got me started on this rant.
I'm fed up, sick and tired of seeing and hearing the government, politicians and the media saying that the people that bombed London are a group of terrorists who are jealous of us, jealous of our civilization, our freedoms, our way of life and our democracy. What do they try to achieve by this arrogance? I know that these are not the reasons. The reason we get bombed is because we're bombing others. they're trying to show us what its like. It's because we've screwed them over. These "terrorists" are probably people who as kids had their families killed and homes destroyed by our actions across the world.
There's one thing that these people should be jealous of: our security, the fact that we're perfectly safe because the western world is the tough kid on the block. they are'nt jealous of our way of life. Look into Iran's political system and tell me the middle east envies ours. It's identical to ours! They too have two houses, like we have the house of lords and house of commons. They have an elected leader picked every five years. Take your head out of your arse and learn something about culture and civilization. You will learn that the Middle East is far more cultured and civilized than Europe. Afterall, the Middle East is where civilization started.
And what are we going to achieve with this arrogance that for some reason the middle-eastern population should be jealous of us? I know what, just more and more bombs, more innocent deaths, until something clicks, and someone with some power reaslises that we now know what it's like. If we just listened to the terrorists demands and adhered to them, we would be like spain is now. Instead, our government and media insist we live our lives, carry on screwing the world over, and make it look like our victims are the bad guys.
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