[SOC] 9/11

[Paul Bartlett]

I heartily concur, Chris.

Another couple of thoughts from a Brit...

The company I work for (SuperH) is incorporated in the States.
Last September 11th, we had a sizeable contingent over from San
Jose for the three-monthly 'ops-review'.

As the news unfolded after lunch, our American colleagues were
visibly shell shocked at the pictures coming through (BBC website).

The horror of the images was bad enough, but I was seriously
surprised at the way our American colleagues reacted.

The Brits in the office had had more than enough experience of the
activities of the IRA (who I believe have killed more people in the last
30 years than died in the WTC) and seemed to have had an air of
sad acceptance (along with a good deal of anger), whilst the
Americans amongst us exhibited pure disbelief that such a thing could
happen on the continental US.

My thoughts are with the families and friends of those who lost their
lives in New York a year ago tomorrow.

Paul

p.s. I was about half a mile away from the Caterham Arms on
28 September 1975 when the IRA exploded a bomb there
targetting the Guardsmen at Caterham Barracks.

p.p.s. Please don't use a daisy cutter; there are some quite nice
buildings around Finsbury Park.

p.p.p.s. If you're tempted to contribute funds to such organisations
as NORAID, please don't.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Redding" <chris.redding@g4pdj.freeserve.co.uk>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: [SOC] 9/11


> Gentlemen,
>
> It had to come round, and we all knew that 9/11/2002 would be very
> difficult. It goes without saying that our thoughts of the vast majority
of
> us will be with you on this deeply
> emotional day.
>
> Like most of the civilised world, the UK will of course be observing a
> minute's silence at the exact anniversary of when the first plane hit the
> World Trade Centre. (of course it will be early afternoon here, just
before
> 2pm).
>
> Unfortunately, the UK's 'enemy within' (the fanatical Al-Muhajiroun group)
> are staging a commemorative rally in Finsbury Park, London, and along with
> some other 'anti-everything' elements, they have stated their intention to
> disrupt the silence.
>
> Like yourselves we have freedom of speech here, but like most other basic
> human rights it can be 'twisted'.
>
> Apart from the anti-American angle, there were of course a small number of
> Brits (about seventy) also killed on 9/11, and this is also regarded as an
> insult to their surviving dependants in the UK.
>
> Personally I would round the lot up and ship them to Cuba, where you would
> be welcome to use them for target practice along with the rest of the
> so-called 'Tipton Taliban" brits that you have there.
>
> But I just thought I would get my apology in first, in case (as is very
> possible) it causes a riot and appears on your TV news. I appreciate how
> this would look to us if the planes had fallen on London, and we were to
see
> similar people being allowed to pervert freedom and 'celebrate' the
> anniversary of 'Holy Tuesday' - as they call it - on the streets of NY.
>
> Chris, G4PDJ
>
> "Grief is the price we pay for love". (QE2)
>