June 25th, 2020
July 2nd, 2007
There are some really, really unstable people out there.
Like the people who try to burn down airports and turn themselves into charcoal because they think innocent people deserve to die because they don't follow the same religion and just happen to live in the country where the person in charge decided to take down a murdering dictator.
It's the stupidest freakin' reason in the stupid freakin' world. Seriously.
I mean, I never agreed with the war in Iraq in the first place and yeah, Tony Blair and George Bush shouldn't listened to all the people in their respective countries saying "Erm... yeah, btw... WE DON'T WANNA FIGHT!" but they didn't and I have to say Iraq is a mess. But still, you've gotta give 'em credit for sticking to their guns and they have put on trial some of the worst people in the modern world. I still don't agree with invading a random country, 'cos you think they might have had something to do with 9/11 though. I still reckon it was a knee-jerk reaction by George Bush 'cos people expected somebody to be punished but it absolutely wasn't the way to go about it.
9/11 was obviously a tragedy. It's one of those moments when everybody knows what they were doing when they found out. I was on my way to a Mosaics activity, at school, for example when the older sister of a girl in the activity with me told her the Twin Towers had been hit by planes. I didn't even know what the Twin Towers were. But perched on the edge of the sofa still with my coat on and everything when we got home, it was simply horrifying. I was in absolute shock. I was young, but I knew that the whole world was changing because of that day.
Then 7/7. We didn't have a Geography lesson 'cos we were just sat watching the TV. The bus that exploded was across the square from where my older brother's university halls were at the time. I was so terrified he had been hurt. Luckily he was home at the time... but at first, watching the scenes on the telly, I didn't know that. I thought he could've died. I've walked past the crash site afterwards and seen the flowers for the dead and the buildings around. They looked cleaner than before because they had to wash the blood off. Of all the places in London, something had to happen in the one place I could identify with. I don't know London at all, apart from that one Square...
And now this. Doctors of all people. Not stupid, easily brainwashed people, if you know what I mean. People who know stuff... people who know the human body and still want to destroy it. And even more, from down the freakin' road! The two people arrested on the motorway, the doctor and his pregnant wife, I think, I go past their house on my way home from school with my Dad sometimes. It's just beyond belief. And another one in Chesterton apparently. I just hear all these places I know so well on the TV. From round here... it's one of the quietest areas I know. And there's people in it, people who work looking after us, who want to kill and maim thousands of innocent people...
Why do they think that they will be taken seriously if they blow people up? Do they think that Britain, or the US, or wherever else they attack will just back down? It only makes everything worse... for themselves, as well as everyone else. They see themselves as martyrs. They aren't anything like. There's nothing honorable or good about what they do. Somebody needs to lock all these terrorists up - whatever colour, whatever religion, whatever gender; I don't give a damn who they are or what their excuses are - and throw away the key.
Good luck to the police I say and the new Home Secretary. God bless.

