[spacebandit]

While 9/11 was a "spectacular", in the venacular use to describe it, and most certainly an atrocity.

I wouldn't want to second guess what lessing said but in a way I can understand what she means.

9/11 was a single attack

the IRA bombed, shot, murdered innocent civilians in NI and the British mainland for over 25 years in a concerted campaign of terror.

I can remember what it was like genuinely living month after month wondering if today could be the day you got yours - I lived twice in my childhood years in areas were attacks happened, my father was a service man. In fact in Woolwich I missed the Kinds Head bomb by about 20 minutes. heard the bomb and made my way back up the hill and watched as the soldiers from the barracks across the road were pulling out the injured and covering the dead before the ambulances arrived. The first time in my life I knew what real fear was, and I didn't see the actual incident only the aftermath. But that is what terrorism is all about, and children are the perfect target


Most of the IRA's money, lest we forget... came from America.

yet we didn't have the kind of civil liberty crackdown we are experiencing now, which makes me more than suspect that a lot of the current climate of fear is government created as a form of control.


Having lived through that period, Muslims and Islamic attacks in Britain do not scare me - but what our government is doing in the name of and with the excuse of "protecting" us ........ most certainly does.