A new hope

Do you think there comes a point where people who consider themselves freedom fighters go, "shit, I'm a terrorist"? Do they suddenly realise that they have hurt people for something that although they may believe in it, the majority don't?

There always seems to be a small group trying to impose it's beliefs on everyone else. Whether it's religious, political or personal. They are never wrong, everyone else is. Therefore whatever they do is justified. Actually I agree with bits here. Just because it's a belief of a minority (in the numerical sense not racial, although this could be the case also)doesn't make it wrong. My problem is in the way you make yourself heard.

I guess we are back to extremists again. I understand, really I do, if you believe that much in something then can you sit by and let something else happen? Why sit back and let a group get away with it? Why let a subset of humanity get away with something you "know" is wrong. In fact Why not subugate them and invade Poland, right?

Some things are worth fighting for but as soon as you step over that line you pollute your cause. You are no longer a freedom fighter, you are a terrorist. You shit on the very thing that was good and honest about your cause.

I have seen a lot of crap, 11/9 (get used to it septics we put the day first), the london bombings, some events in Iraq and a lot of animal rights nutters. All this stuff seems to result in people getting away with shit that should set them apart from humanity. They have left behind part of the stuff that makes you a fully rounded human. It seemed that all the time people just got away with stuff that was plain wrong.

BUT...

There have been some glimmers. Remember Lindy? She went to jail for abusing prisoners of war (terrorists or not, deserve it or not, we have to play by the rules or we are just another terrorist organisation), ditto with that arsehole Moussaoui (personally I felt a death sentence would have been kinder than rotting in jail for the rest of his life) and now the guys that stole a corpse have been shit canned.

You must remember this? They robbed a grave and stole the corpse and used it "to blackmail the owners of a guinea pig breeding farm in Staffordshire, 150 miles north of London."

Can you imagine the pain this must have caused the family. Yes, they supplied guinea pigs for animal testing. Should this have been stopped? Maybe. Protest. Lobby parliament. Bite the bullet and work for it. Remember this is a democracy you will get what the majority wants if you don't like it you could head the fuck off to another country.

Anyway three guys got twelve years, one woman got four years. Nice to see that occasionally the law catches up with the terrorists and punishes them.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/05/11/activists.sentenced.ap/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/4762481.stm


PS Personally, nicking a body, even one of a relative isn't that upsetting. As an athiest I see a dead body as a lump of meat, nothing more.

Actually thinking about it you'd think everyone would feel that way. For the religious it's the home of the soul (or important bit) which leaves when the person dies. To me it's the seat of consciousness which is lost once the person dies. Either way the thing that made them the person you cared about is gone. It's one of the reasons why I believe in organ donation.

Actually why the hell do people not donate, while we are on the subject. If you are an athiest why would you care. If you are religious I bet you get extra brownie points for helping someone to live with something you certainly don't need anymore.