I hope this won't offend anyone, but I agree with the
need not to over-react. On 9/11 one of my reactions
(like everyone I had many) was to think that the
government should simply state that the loss of .001%
of office space (or whatever), .001% of the US
population, and four airplanes was, in any rational
analysis, not a crisis, and go ahead with business as
usual. Of course that's just what the corporations
did, except for the ones directly involved with
war-profiteering, who thought it was Xmas in
September.
What I thought of today was the lovely statue of
Ghandi in Tavistock Square. Peace to all.
--- Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I remember a policeman being cross-examined in the
> Scarman inquiry into Red Lion Square retorting that
> only one had died
>
> What has happened is plenty to get excited about.
> It's just that, I suggest, the excitement is best
> contained gesturally so that the idiots responsible
> who did not kill themselves gain less satisfaction
>
> The dead are out of it and the only loss now is ours
> because, I believe, the dead are dead and know
> nothing. But the wounded are many; and in many cases
> their suffering will not end.
>
> The other thing to get excited about is the length
> of time it took them to deal with what you rightly
> say is a relatively small set of incidents. We might
> reflect what it'll be like when we are subjected to
> a nuke or other nasty
>
> L
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thursday, July 07, 2005 7:13 PM
> Subject: Re: London calling
>
>
> Nothing to worry about Patrick. Radio 5 has been
> calm and brilliant all day.
> This has been expected for months but they havent
> really killed very many.
> Look at Madrid. Nothing to get excited about.
>
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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