If you read just one thing today…
…make sure it’s this by Rachel North:
I watched the video in an annexe to Kingston Crown Court with some of the bereaved families and it made me want to weep, because there was such love, and such hate, which became such murderous poison, as he cradled a sweet pink rose of a child, amongst his laughing friends.
The temptation is and has been to see the 7/7 bombers as less than human, as pre-programmed agents of unthinking evil. Rachel, someone with forgiveable reasons to see it that way, does not.
To process these events in black and white would be the easy, comforting and understandable way for someone having had her experiences and yet she resists that temptation. There are some in power who should be showing the same subtlety.
And then there’s this:
For two years, conspiracy theorists have been saying there is no CCTV of the 7/7 bombers save one grainy shot, (which they say is faked). There is, I have seen it played in a public court. They could have seen it too, if they had bothered to come. It is real, it was always real. Why do they peddle their lies about it?
Go and read.
Posted on April 11th, 2008 at 9:09 am
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Thanks Mr Yogurt
Rachel’s last blog post..‘I have to do this thing for our future’
“The temptation is and has been to see the 7/7 bombers as less than human, as pre-programmed agents of unthinking evil”
Is it ? I’m sure they’re no more or less human than the rest of us. Killing people is a very human thing to do.
But that doesn’t mean that those potential imitators who we catch shouldn’t be nailed to their own front doors.
To understand is not to forgive, unless you’re Rachel of course, who is a fine person.
Laban Tall’s last blog post..“a very unfortunate incident these boys got caught up in”