Norway Bombing

[IAN 2411]

thir....Losalt...

I think you misunderstand me, i never meant that we should change the way we live because of these outrages. I only meant the there is now no safe haven anywhere in the world. As i said even the most hollowed of places is a potentential target. The UK never changed its way in all the years that the IRA was using the mainland as a target, and in the free world i dont expect anyone else to. There is no harm in being wise and being careful.

Be well IAN 2411

[leo9]

thir....Losalt...

I think you misunderstand me, i never meant that we should change the way we live because of these outrages. I only meant the there is now no safe haven anywhere in the world.

There never was. In the early 20th century people were scared of Nihilist bombers. In the 16th century the fear figure was the "murder-burner", the arsonist. (In cities of tarred wood and thatched roofs you didn't need a bomb to create a massacre, just a torch.) Greek and Norse legends include tales of people who were possessed by gods or demons and ran wild killing everyone in sight. There is a minute but real possibility that the next person you meet will be looking to kill you, for political or religious or psychiatric reasons. You either live with it, or stay home and hide under the bed.

[Thorne]

There is a minute but real possibility that the next person you meet will be looking to kill you, for political or religious or psychiatric reasons.

The reasons don't really matter. They are all insane to one degree or another. Politics and religion only give some people an excuse, in their own minds, to kill strangers. Or even friends and family. It's only when the insanity becomes institutionalized, as in religion or governments, that the reasons begin to make a difference, and even then only to those who are doing the killing. The dead don't care. The survivors care only for revenge (or justice, if you prefer.)

[thir]

thir....Losalt...

I think you misunderstand me, i never meant that we should change the way we live because of these outrages.

Ok

I only meant the there is now no safe haven anywhere in the world. As i said even the most hollowed of places is a potentential target. The UK never changed its way in all the years that the IRA was using the mainland as a target, and in the free world i dont expect anyone else to. There is no harm in being wise and being careful.
Be well IAN 2411

Then again, the UK, along with many othere countries, have now changed their laws, quite considererably, in ways that do threthen to kill democracy while, in my opinion, not putting much of a brake on terrorists.

One wonders why now, since, as you say, it wasn't done in all the time of the IRA.