Another day, another desperate act of terrorism. I listened to this once again and felt the horror but it is becoming commonplace...
The ease of driving a vehicle at speed into a crowd of people is very frightening. It is emerging as the desired way of killing by virtue of its randomness.
The fact that the person driving the vehicle is almost always killed in the process is clearly not stopping them. They become martyrs not killers.
And yet it would be too easy to become timid...too easy of being scared of walking about in any large city.
When I cruise I often walk around large cities...
It is part of the joy. And it still will be.
The people perpetrating these crimes want us to be frightened...
It is interesting that the same method of killing was used by people of the far right wing in America...
Any person who is unhappy and feels sidelined by society has this means of killing at their disposal.... and until they drive directly at us there is no way of spotting them in advance...
I will try not to let it prevent my perambulations in the future but I suspect another layer of distrust is being added to all our consciousness.
It's a strange world but it's where we are now.
Lord hear our prayer....
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1 comment:
When we consider the 30+ years of Irish Terrorism, we survived and perhaps the current spate will last as long, although it has deeper roots.
The ability for terrorists to radicalise young men and women from a distance using social media if the thing that needs to be tackled. Those companies and groups who operate secret encrypted channels have a responsibility for this and need to be held to account.
It will take a concerted effort world wide to close those channels down, and to be ongoing. The so called 'Dark Web' needs to be closely monitored and those who use it be invstigated thoroughly, as the only reason to conduct business in that way has to have criminal undertones.
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