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Post by racechick on Jun 29, 2015 17:32:08 GMT
One can't help but be moved by the horrific scenes of the beach attack in Tunisia. People gunned down whilst lying on sun beds on holiday. A poor lady today said she saw the gunman with a massive gun shooting anyone who moved. So she couldn't run, she played dead, and she felt him coming nearer to her and he stopped to change his magazine right next to her then carried on shooting. She survived but is so traumatised she could hardly speak. A couple gone there to renew their wedding vows, dead. Thirty Brits dead, innicent holiday makers. It's hard not to hate people who do this, and by association , the religion that drives them.
And France also. A factory blown up and the manager beheaded. That's just across the motorway from where I stay near Lyon when travelling down to the Alps.
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Post by Wß on Jun 29, 2015 18:01:37 GMT
It's hatred that causes the behavior in the first place. It's their hope that there will be retaliatory hatred because that fuels the cause and all it takes is one person willing to make that "sacrifice" for the world to lose its liberties.
We had one man shoot 9 people in a church here last week, different religion, different cause, willing to make the same sacrifice for the cause. Only by changing the foundational issues will we take out the rug from under the various causes that convince these terrorists of their righteousness and our infidelity and sins.
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Post by pistnbroke on Jun 29, 2015 21:34:48 GMT
Religion was a tool used by the rich to control the masses in a bygone era. It is out dated and out moded. People now manipulate it to their own ends.
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Post by LRW on Jul 7, 2015 8:04:22 GMT
I cant believe 7/7 was 10 years ago!
That was a surreal day.
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Post by pistnbroke on Jul 7, 2015 8:32:24 GMT
It seems a lot longer avo
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Post by LRW on Jul 7, 2015 9:02:54 GMT
Really? Time is a funny thing - sometimes things seem to have only happened yesterday but at the same time feel as though so much has happened since.
I know that doesn't make sense.
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Post by Wß on Jul 7, 2015 10:57:01 GMT
Really? Time is a funny thing - sometimes things seem to have only happened yesterday but at the same time feel as though so much has happened since. I know that doesn't make sense.We've come to expect that from you. I think that the world has become a different place post September 11th 2001. I also think that the terrorist mindset wanted it to become a different place. The very goal of terrorism is to force you to alter the day to day living that you're accustomed to through increased aspects of militarism thereby make your world seem less safe. The reality however is far from that, terror is good business and good for government.
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Post by pistnbroke on Jul 7, 2015 13:22:25 GMT
I am sure the VA has never been so busy
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Post by Wß on Jul 7, 2015 13:34:31 GMT
What's the VA?
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Post by pistnbroke on Jul 8, 2015 17:32:54 GMT
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Post by Wß on Jul 8, 2015 19:15:05 GMT
I thought you were talking about something British. Sadly, don't know how much you know about the VA but the Government doesn't seem to fund them nearly as well as they fund other military programs actually. From poor record keeping to woefully antiquated facilities to simply providing poor quality treatment specifically to PTSD and other not concrete issues. That's what always gets me about the 'Merica mentality. We've got the best military... year right. Best at spending half a billion for another F22 Raptor, but try to get a tenth of that to renovate a medical facility and see how un 'Merican that is made to be.
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Post by pistnbroke on Jul 9, 2015 20:46:25 GMT
It is a lot better that the British treat us Vets. I have mates with PTSD and all they get is a "how is it going?" every 6 months. The only contact I have had with anyone official since leaving 2 years ago was an "oh we paid you slightly too much in you last month please send us a cheque with the money you owe us"
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