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Re: Blog Thread IIIb : Look Who's Blogging Now
VonKleist:
I don't want to get too much into the politics of this but since this week a bomb was found at the central station of former german capital Bonn I´ve been thinking about it a lot. Thinking about Madrid and London mainly.
The device had probably been set to explode via a time-clock but luckily failed to do so. It was made from bottles of propane and a steel tube of ammonium nitrate, as I understand it. I´m not to clear on the specifics but according to the police it would have made for a reasonably sized boom. What a cowardly thing to do, anyway. Ties to the islamistic scene are being investigated and the police are looking for two people that have been cought on the station's security videos.
What boggles my mind is why public transport? On that particular corner of the station at that time of day you would have blown up maybe 5 homeless junkies and some commuters. Why not target the Ministry for the Interior or something? Noo.. poor people it is. Talk about arguing with crazy people.
Carl-E:
But that's the point of terrorism - it can be anytime, any place, anyone. A heavily used public transport station means no one's safe.
Barmymoo:
My dissertation is depressing me. I'm currently gathering statistics on how many prison nursery places there are in the USA, and how many babies have incarcerated mothers. The answer? About 100 places. A metric shitton of babies*. Whatever my conclusions are about whether or not prison nurseries are the way to go, that's a lot of little children who lose their mothers. Add fathers into the picture, or rather remove them from the picture - and that normally is the case: 40% of incarcerated mothers of minor children were single parents when they were arrested, and a large number are arrested alongside their partner or husband - and we're talking tens of thousands of effectively orphaned children.
* This is not the precise term I will use in my paper.
Carl-E:
Welcome to America!
So long as you don't do anything wrong, aren't poor or a minority or make any sudden moves, You'll be OK...
Barmymoo:
Britain isn't a lot better, to be honest. We just have fewer people in prison so the numbers aren't as high. There are still a lot of children losing their parents here.
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