It’s one of those days, isn’t it? Not quite a 9/11 moment, but definitely a Madrid railway station, 7/7 and Tunisia moment. When you think that nothing else can shock you, something awful happens that shocks you even more. Today we mourn with the good citizens of Brussels.
It is, yet again, the slaughter of the innocents carried out by cowards with no conscience and no moral compass. What on earth goes through the minds of those who inflict such carnage upon people with whom they personally have no argument? Is there really a God so bloodthirsty and evil that He could possibly be pleased with murder in His name? Some people obviously think so.
It’s another terror attack and, guess what, terrorising is what these people want to do. And will we be terrorised into changing the way in which we live our lives? However brave we want to sound, we will change. The authorities will introduce still more security systems, which will never be fully foolproof, and we will not all of us go to the same places we used to visit. No one is going to Tunisia, or Egypt, and wherever we are we will have concerns in the back of our minds, until memories of the last outrage fade, we relax a bit and then we get another Brussels.
The cowardly terrorists, the suicide murderers and the shooters, only need to get lucky once, if luck is what you call killing innocent people. We need to be lucky every minute of every day.
In the digital age, images of carnage are never far away. Gruesome mobile phone images and videos appear almost immediately on social networks, one British newspaper showing an image of a woman covered in blood with some of her clothes missing. The taste test doesn’t apply, no responsibility from the editors, it’s a semi-undressed woman, shocked, wounded but alive. Tell me why she deserves this image of her in great distress to appear all over the world.
I’m rambling, I know. My thoughts are a jumble of confusion, a mess of thoughts from which I cannot paint a coherent mind’s eye view.
Yes, I am shocked again when I thought I could not be shocked anymore. Man’s inhumanity to man seems to know no depths, although having said that the vast majority of people will be appalled and disgusted as I am; those who have lost family and friends even more so. Hell on earth has just started for some people. I just wish there was a real hell for the perpetrators of these attacks to go to.
