My favourite quote by one of Boston’s Irish Citizenry.
In my recent Blog, I worried that the people of the United States might cower in fear as a result of this past Monday’s double bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Thank goodness I need not have – especially as it related to the good folks of Boston.
I heard a handful say that they would never participate in a marathon again but the overall reaction was to ‘carry on’ in the face of adversity; they were not going to allow themselves to change their lifestyle due to horror inflicted by psychos.
It is indeed encouraging to see that such character is alive and well south of the border. I know that it still is in Britain and most certainly Israel. I suspect it lives on in Germany and Japan but as for the rest, it is a long past memory. And when I say that, I also suspect that Canada would find itself in the lesser group. Fortunately, we have not yet been tested to know for certain.
Take Young Trudeau for instance. In his first real interview …this with Peter Mansbridge the day after the bombing he had this to say:
‘we must look to find the underlying cause for the bombings’.
No we don’t…even the man who currently occupies the White House finally came out and called it was it is “Terrorism” and you do not deal with terrorists nor do you seek to find out its root causes.
Suffice to say it is mad men out to harm innocents and defenceless for their own disturbed purposes.
When I wrote my most recent Blog I indicated that I thought the bombings were done by either domestic whackos or foreign al qaeda agents and in the scheme of things it did not matter too much to me who was involved since Terror is Terror whoever the perpetrator.
Just released FBI photos of the two likely suspects show them to both to be lily white and have all the markings of domestic youth. I think we’ll soon know their identities and why they decided to do what they did.
But that will be cold comfort to those who died who suffered horrendous physical and mental injury.
I do not believe in the death penalty per se but could be convinced of its applicability when it comes to Terrorists. At the very least these two, if and when they are caught, will spend a lifetime in jail and will have lots of time then to reflect on the root causes.
For the rest of us, we have to get on with living.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
