Let’s turn yesterday’s Terrorist Act on its head by holding another Boston Marathon asap.
Moreover, we should challenge these self same terrorists to try it again … but this time we’ll all be on guard.
If we cower and run, they win. If we stand defiantly in the face of their pathetic effort to destroy our will – We Win.
So let’s have another long distance run for the sake of ourselves, our families and our way of life.
And in so doing, let’s call this wicked deed what it is … a cowardly terrorist act that preys on the defenceless innocents.
I suspect the guilty will be found out and prosecuted but at this point there is nothing to suggest it was foreign (e.g. al qaeda) or domestic (e.g. minute men) but regardless, the perpetrators are nothing but cowardly scum.
We cannot allow them to terrorize us. In fact, the only way they can terrorize us, is if we let them .. since terror, must terrorize, to be successful.
I think back to the Brits in the dark days of 1940 when an invasion was expected to be imminent and each night the Luftwaffe bombed the City of London indiscriminately. Their brave citizens went to the bomb shelters at night and in the morning came out to meet the day with strength and determination.
Some say that since then, we in society have lost the will to be able to do this again.
I simply do not believe that.
But we do need some leadership to show us the way. Never mind more screening at airports, rather show us the way in which we can lead our daily lives – normally, but with defiance, in the face of those who would otherwise seek to destroy us.
You Terrorists do your worst and We Will Do Our Best and we will see who of us survives.
As I see it …
“K.d. Galagher’
