h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I know many of the h2g2 readers and writers are from Europe. If any of you from Britian, France, and Germany lease be carful

Just nuke it from space.

To make sure.

allah akbar

Please be careful and don't panic. They are trying to get the situation under control.

Hold on hold on...

Can we have a quick raising of hands? Yep? OK, Hands up everyone who is panicking?



I think you're alright there jzzy. is our motto around here, after all. Thanks for dropping by though.

LOL! I 'm sorry for over reacting but I don't want those countries to go through what United States of America went through on 9/11

I wouldn't want anyone to go through what Vietnam went through at the hands of the americans in the vietnam war, but hey... Power talks.



I'm sure everything will be alright in the end. Worrying about it is pointless. Any of us could die any day and so long as people are aware of things like unattended baggage in train stations and so on and report it, that's all anyone can do.

Living in fear of a possibility is no life at all

Sad fact of life, humans don't get on with each other very well. Religion gets in the way. Stop all this "my god's better than your god" nonsense and we might just see a little less trouble in the world today.

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9/11 was just one day

and you have been living with the fall out for 9 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army

we had near enough 35 years of it

and the fallout is still happening

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_IRA

With a little funding, I believe, from our American cousins. How ironic.

See, religion is just an access point for Power. Power is the root of all evil. Money, religion etc. are just ways and means of getting/showing it

I've cracked it!! Powerpoint is the Access of all evil. These people Excel by their Words!

Microsoft is therefore the anti-christ!!

Hoom, thought I posted here last night.

I wanted to congratulate the OP on the concern for their fellow homospaiens.

I was also gonna go with this one as it's not IRA centric:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain

As you should note we've had our "9/11" in July of 2005.



In the wake of that on,e Hootooers went ahead with our London summer meet indulged in what we dubbed "drinking against terrorism".

It's just how we do things over here.


I'd also like to point out that the US has had terrorist incidents prior to "9/11".

That didn't involve the military or Guantanamo being used to deal with the the threat to national security presented by radical Catholicism, radical republicanism, racism which were in varying degrees motivators in the Oklahoma bombing, and in the Atlanta Olympics bombing and numerous other incidents.

>> I've cracked it!! Powerpoint is the Access of all evil. These people Excel by their Words! <<

The Outlook's bleak.

RF

The Outlook may be bleak, but we have the Powerpoint to present against all challenges we may be faced with.

Your right we have had other terrorist attacks but none as devastating as 9/11, well unless you count the Pearl Harbor bombing.

It's mildly disturbing that you're bragging about the size of yours.

RF

I'm not trying to brag, sorry that it seems that way.

We shan't count Pearl Harbour, as that's a state targeting a military target, although morale sapping was probably an expected external success.

More apt would be Hiroshima or Dresden, both carried by our alliance, as examples of states applying terror.


I wouldn't dispute that "9/11" was more devastating in terms of direct lives lost, direct economic impact (indirect: two wars funded by borrowing, good men like Pat Tillman killed), and impact on opinion than any of the prior domestic events.

The direct impact of "9/11" was an order of magnitude greater than what had come before.
The indirect losses and order of magnitude greater again, weren't inflicted by the terrorists, but by both our governments.

The response to terrorism is not to be disproportionately effected or affected. For the people not be afeared and the governments to be permitted to exploit that fear.