Of profiteering hotels and scared Americans.
It's nice to know that in the face of yesterday's bomb attacks in London, the closure of the transport system and the massive human suffering, hotels in the area were kind enough to triple their prices for those unfortunate enough to be stuck in London. Yes, profiting from human suffering is alive the thriving in London.
Commuters said they were appalled, and thousands chose to walk for hours to reach home rather than stay the night in a hotel. £80-a-night hotels shot up to £250 a night. Nice.
What's truly sad is that despite published statements today indicating no link to Iraq, no link to Al Qaeda, no link to muslims and no evidence of suicide bombers exists (ie. it could very easily have been the IRA), America has knee-jerked into panic again. Why is it that Americans panic so damn easily? The news last night told us how local law enforcement had stepped up vigilance on the tram system here in Salt Lake City. Then they interviewed a few people, all of whom expressed the same sentiment : they were worried about using public transport and didn't think it was safe any more. The report finished by saying that Londoners were now living with the new reality of being more vigilant. I've got news for you - Londoners as with most people in England have been used to being vigilant for decades thanks to the IRA.
Oh come ON! People in London, where the attacks actually happened, are using the tubes and buses today just like they did two days ago. Yet people in white-bread America are afraid of using their own public transport system? Why? Why do Americans panic like this? Is it a symptom of 4 years of fear and oppression from B*sh? Are people really so brainwashed now that they're afraid of everything? I hate to break the news to you, but if you live in America and are afraid of using public transport based on a bombing in a different country (where IRA bombings are common), then your president has done a far better job of terrorising you than any extremist group could ever hope for. You're afraid to step out of your front doors because the "President" and his stranglehold on the mass media have programmed you to believe everything is dangerous. That in itself is a truly sad state of affairs.
One Man And His Blog expresses this sentiment perfectly with a quote from the supposed attackers and a photo of the clearly panick-stricken English waiting for a train the next morning. Click here to see what I mean. The Americans are in a fit of panic. The English are not. Yet the attack took place in England.
What's worse is that when I express this sentiment, people say to me "oh but you didn't have 9/11 in England." No, we didn't. Instead, we had to live through 20 years of IRA dominance, sometimes to the tune of 2 bombs PER NIGHT. 9/11 was tragic, yes, but tell me how many terrorist attacks on Americans, inside America, have happened in the last 20 years. (ie. not including the African embassy bombings). 10, 20, 30?
No. The original attack on the WTC, Oklahoma City (which was an American in case you'd been brainwashed into forgetting that), and 9/11 (the official version of events of which is now so shaky that I doubt that the government is a squeaky clean as they'd like us to believe). That is three events.
Now look at the history of the IRA in my posts from yesterday. Sixty in the same time period. The simple fact of the matter is that the average American has no idea what terrorism is. Be thankful that this is the case. I hate to think what America would be like if there were bomb attacks inside America at anything approaching the frequency of IRA operations, if everyone was vigilant to the point of suspecting any and every person of being a potential terrorist, and every unattended bag as being a bomb. That's the reality of life in England and has been for decades. It's actually one of the many factors we considered when leaving the country.
Commuters said they were appalled, and thousands chose to walk for hours to reach home rather than stay the night in a hotel. £80-a-night hotels shot up to £250 a night. Nice.
What's truly sad is that despite published statements today indicating no link to Iraq, no link to Al Qaeda, no link to muslims and no evidence of suicide bombers exists (ie. it could very easily have been the IRA), America has knee-jerked into panic again. Why is it that Americans panic so damn easily? The news last night told us how local law enforcement had stepped up vigilance on the tram system here in Salt Lake City. Then they interviewed a few people, all of whom expressed the same sentiment : they were worried about using public transport and didn't think it was safe any more. The report finished by saying that Londoners were now living with the new reality of being more vigilant. I've got news for you - Londoners as with most people in England have been used to being vigilant for decades thanks to the IRA.
Oh come ON! People in London, where the attacks actually happened, are using the tubes and buses today just like they did two days ago. Yet people in white-bread America are afraid of using their own public transport system? Why? Why do Americans panic like this? Is it a symptom of 4 years of fear and oppression from B*sh? Are people really so brainwashed now that they're afraid of everything? I hate to break the news to you, but if you live in America and are afraid of using public transport based on a bombing in a different country (where IRA bombings are common), then your president has done a far better job of terrorising you than any extremist group could ever hope for. You're afraid to step out of your front doors because the "President" and his stranglehold on the mass media have programmed you to believe everything is dangerous. That in itself is a truly sad state of affairs.
One Man And His Blog expresses this sentiment perfectly with a quote from the supposed attackers and a photo of the clearly panick-stricken English waiting for a train the next morning. Click here to see what I mean. The Americans are in a fit of panic. The English are not. Yet the attack took place in England.
What's worse is that when I express this sentiment, people say to me "oh but you didn't have 9/11 in England." No, we didn't. Instead, we had to live through 20 years of IRA dominance, sometimes to the tune of 2 bombs PER NIGHT. 9/11 was tragic, yes, but tell me how many terrorist attacks on Americans, inside America, have happened in the last 20 years. (ie. not including the African embassy bombings). 10, 20, 30?
No. The original attack on the WTC, Oklahoma City (which was an American in case you'd been brainwashed into forgetting that), and 9/11 (the official version of events of which is now so shaky that I doubt that the government is a squeaky clean as they'd like us to believe). That is three events.
Now look at the history of the IRA in my posts from yesterday. Sixty in the same time period. The simple fact of the matter is that the average American has no idea what terrorism is. Be thankful that this is the case. I hate to think what America would be like if there were bomb attacks inside America at anything approaching the frequency of IRA operations, if everyone was vigilant to the point of suspecting any and every person of being a potential terrorist, and every unattended bag as being a bomb. That's the reality of life in England and has been for decades. It's actually one of the many factors we considered when leaving the country.
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