Sunday, January 14, 2007

Terrorism and every day life

Don't think it can happen to you? Imagine, you are going about your life, walking down the street to get a cup of coffee. Or you are taking your kids to see a movie on a Saturday afternoon. Or you and your family meet at a restaurant for a nice mothers day dinner... Then, out of nowhere, Boom, flying glass, metal and wood pepper your face, you feel the hot stickiness as a trickle of blood forms on a cut... Smoke is all around, you can hardly see, the air is so thick that you start coughing... In the distance you hear a faint cry... It sounds like a child... Oh, god is it your child?? Where is your child... You start to panic... You are frantic now, you cant see, you stumble around on your hands and knees in the smoke, the shattered glass on the floor digs into your knees, but you don't care... You have a one track mind... You draw closer to the faint cries and discover that it isn't your child, it is an old woman, dying... You frantically look on desperate to find out if your own child suffers the same fate...

Ok, back to reality.... Guess what, it can happen... It has happened already to thousands of people... People who were going about their daily lives, minding their own business... People in New York, London, Madrid... How long before it hits home and things like what I described above happens in your city?

Here is a video of what happens...


Don't be naive enough to think that it cant happen in your home town... All the people in this video did wrong was to be minding their own business in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is from a surveillance camera in the Madrid airport taken only a few weeks ago.

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