is this country going a bit overboard in responding to the attacks?

[Johnny Canuck3]

i knew you'd find me in the end!!

I'm not going to respond to that.


p.s. That's a Hudson's Bay blanket in the background. And Molson Canadian isn't bad for mass produced beer.

Too bad english girls can't hold their liquor over here.

 

[camouflage]

Funny how we don't have a Europe wide two minute silence every time 57 Iraqis die in a bombing.

Spot on, fuckin aye.

 

[kained&able]

don't think anyone is over reacting to be honest. We haven't even bombed a country yet.

can't complain about more green space in london really tis a good thing and we aren't building a 4 story double decker bus to shove in the bombers faces.

seems to me that everyone is just getting on with normality just a bit more apprehensivly then normal.


dave

 

[Badger Kitten]

The cold state of the British has bordered on cruelty in comparison with the emotion and solidarity the Spanish displayed. It is as if the human significance of what happened had been annulled. Seen through the British media, London recovered its pulse the morning after the attacks and put forth an image of normalcy, even indifference... [In Madrid] Two days after the attacks, millions marched on the street in rabid pain. In the UK, no one has mobilized a march.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/07/08/internacional/1120832853.html

Thursday


12pm: 2 minutes silence on the streets.

6pm: Vigil in Trafalgar Square.


I'm going there with other people who were involved. I don't think we will however be displaying attacks of 'rabid pain', though, more just well fucked off and sorry for the dead/injured and their families, and marking the anniversary so we can move forward afterwards .

A bit like this, see

 

[Stavrogin]

in the aftermath of last week's horrifick attacks, it seems to me that this country's going a bit ott in its response. the establishment of memorial gardens and a europe-wide silence indicates some sort of dianafication of the event. now, if this was entirely unexpected, and we knew it was a one-off, then perhaps it would be fair enough. but when, as seems more likely, this is the first in an occasional series i feel that it's an exaggerated and foolish reaction.

i'm all for people grieving in their own way and for people to find some sense of closure as they will. but will there be the same response next time? or the time after that? frankly, the murder of fifty - seventy people - whilst never nice and always (hopefully) shocking - does not demand that everyone lose their sense of perspective. and that sense of perspective seems to me to be being lost.

It's not that they're over reacting... more that we've been led into a default response dictated by precident as opposed to the event itself...

This media is obviously the main culprit

And HOW did these bombings turn into a multi-faith love fest?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Thursday


12pm: 2 minutes silence on the streets.

6pm: Vigil in Trafalgar Square.


I'm going there with other people who were involved. I don't think we will however be displaying attacks of 'rabid pain', though, more just well fucked off and sorry for the dead/injured and their families, and marking the anniversary so we can move forward afterwards .

A bit like this, see

Personally, I think the response of the british has been remarkable and quite amazing. It does you proud.

The spanish are a different people, and react differently. I don't see their way as wrong, however, just different.

Perhaps I understand the british response more, coming as I do from a country with anglo saxon roots.