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catsidheThe morning after the Olympics celebrations. The day the G8 meeting started. 8:50am, the peak of rush hour.
I don't really give a flying fuck what religion they profess to follow, what they are are evil fucks.
I will lay a bet, though, that no Iraqis were involved. Oh, they will be given as a reason, but Iraqis have other things on their plate. Just a point.
There is hope for humanity, though, in the response of the Londoners. There was no panic. There was no running around screaming. There was no getting underfoot. Those who could help, did. Those who couldn't got out of the way. Triage did its thing. The dead weren't even counted until all that could be done for the living had been. Blair gave a quick statement with as much information as he had, then got into a plane to London ASAP. George W. kept his mouth shut. The parliament did what it could. The London Emergency Services went above and beyond. Even reports of the actions of the Train drivers was that they were calm, collected, and kept people as calm as possible while evacuating the walking wounded. Maybe there's hope for us as a species yet.
The question is: Now what happens?
I don't really give a flying fuck what religion they profess to follow, what they are are evil fucks.
I will lay a bet, though, that no Iraqis were involved. Oh, they will be given as a reason, but Iraqis have other things on their plate. Just a point.
There is hope for humanity, though, in the response of the Londoners. There was no panic. There was no running around screaming. There was no getting underfoot. Those who could help, did. Those who couldn't got out of the way. Triage did its thing. The dead weren't even counted until all that could be done for the living had been. Blair gave a quick statement with as much information as he had, then got into a plane to London ASAP. George W. kept his mouth shut. The parliament did what it could. The London Emergency Services went above and beyond. Even reports of the actions of the Train drivers was that they were calm, collected, and kept people as calm as possible while evacuating the walking wounded. Maybe there's hope for us as a species yet.
The question is: Now what happens?
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Date: 2005-07-07 06:18 pm (UTC)Warren Ellis on the other hand - sent out a wonderful email to his mailing list - shall i cut and paste it?
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Date: 2005-07-07 06:45 pm (UTC)I know someone else on my flist who will want to know about this....
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Date: 2005-07-07 06:53 pm (UTC)From: WarrenE@aol.com
To: badsignal@lists.flirble.org
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:25:56 EDT
bad signal
WARREN ELLIS
To answer a ton of email and
forestall some more: I wasn't in
London today, and I'm fine.
Right now, it's looking like seven
explosions, 150 injuries, two dead.
The dead count is obviously going
to go up -- the bus had its bomb on
the top deck, and it butterflied it --
but they're still bringing live bodies
out of the tube stations. Blair,
standing with the G8 leaders as he
made his statement, has of course
been given a political gift.
Those of you trying to contact
London friends and family should be
aware that the mobile phone system
is still locked down in parts of the city.
I'd remind my foreign readers that,
although it's been a while, this sort
of thing is not something we're
unused to over here. There's not
going to be a lot of freaking out from
the generations that remember
explosives in litterbins and bomb
threat drills in office blocks. It was
part of the fabric of life for a very
long time.
Oh, here we go; footage of Blair
being lifted out of Gleneagles by a
military chopper.
See, if Paddy Ashdown had become
Prime Minister, he'd be in camo
gear, carrying a machine gun and
clambering into an Apache, proclaiming
that he was off to personally hunt
down and kill Osama. I think the
country really missed an opportunity
there.