7/7 anniversary

[Keith Richards]

two minutes silence at midday today everyone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5153678.stm

[Ace42X]

When do you intend to observe silence for the hundreds of thousands of dead in Iraq? By my calculations, you'll need to observe 64 hours continuous silence for them, proportionately.

[ms.peachy]

Way to mix apples and oranges, Ace :rolleyes:

[Ace42X]

Way to mix apples and oranges, Ace :rolleyes:

How d'you figure? Give me one good reason why these people deserve 2 minutes silence, whereas people in Iraq who have died for pretty much the same reasons, don't.

In both cases UK foreign policy is directly to blame, in both cases innocent people were needlessly slaughtered. The only difference is that within five years, terrorist attacks on the English mainland have killed less than a hundred people, when as many Iraqi civillians are being killed over there daily. If we were to observe a comparable amount of silence daily for them as we do for "our" casaulties, maybe this whole sodid atrocity wouldn't be still unresolved, and Uncle Tony wouldn't be sitting on his throne mocking the very notion of being tried as a terrorist.

[ms.peachy]

Uh huh. So, let's just never honour any innocent victims of anything ever, then.

[Pres Zount]

I think a minutes of voodoo chanting would do more good.

[Ace42X]

Uh huh. So, let's just never honour any innocent victims of anything ever, then.

Makes more sense that making a broohaha over an arbitrary group of people solely because the media tells us we should. "Honouring" these people cheapens the deaths of the millions of other people who die all over the world every day. What, precisely, is special about them, other than having a commendable preference for public transport?

Unless you personally know someone who was involved in this, or who was effected by this due to them knowing someone involved, then this is nothing but pretentious histrionics, just like the embarrassing travesty that was the fuss when Diana died.

This sort of social masturbation disgusts me, making a mockery of *real* mourning and concern, and replacing it with cheap amateur theatrics and sentimentality. It is a vindication of Baudrillard IMO.

[DroppinScience]

You're also forgetting to have a few days of silence for the starving kids in Africa, Ace.

How short-sighted of you to only think of the Iraqis.

[Ace42X]

You're also forgetting to have a few days of silence for the starving kids in Africa, Ace.

How short-sighted of you to only think of the Iraqis.

Exactly. To quote the Cybermen: "There are people dying all over your world, yet you do not care about them."