I'm sure everybody out there in blogistan already knows what great blog design Ogre and I do. If you don't know you should. In fact, take a look at my latest work: American Dinosaur. Would you believe that only ran a meager twenty-five bucks?
The other day I was driving home from work and heard about another failed bombing attempt in England. The bomb was attached to some guy on a bus. It made a loud bang and smoke billowed out of it. Luckily, it did not go off. The terrorist (For those confused by the word "terrorist", just imagine the word "insurgent" in its place.) realized his mission had failed and ran off the bus.
Maybe it was the hour (5:30AM) or maybe they started talking about the weather or something, but I trailed off into my own thoughts. At first I was happy that no one was injured. Nobody died, that's a good thing. The next thing I thought about was how these bastards are running rampant over there. I offhandedly blamed the government's inability to quell the hate speech imams over in England and was about to pay attention to the news again and just roll on home when another thought hit me.
I had suddenly come to the realization that an entire busload of Britoners had looked a known terrorist in the face and firmly planted their collective thumbs up their asses. Did they not realize that a terrorist had just attempted to kill them all? Were they so afraid of the terrorist that they all stood there paralyzed with fear of him? Maybe they're just so apathetic about things they have truly become a nation of sheeple? I do not know why or how they had failed their duties to defend their country but a great opportunity for all of them was missed.
I then turned to myself in contemplation of what I would do in a situation such as this. Surely the individual in question would be mauled almost instantly in America. I'm sure the biggest problem would be keeping him alive long enough for the authorities to arrive. Would we just hold him down? Would we simply kill him? Would we pummel and torture him without regard for what would happen to us? At the time I was thinking these thoughts I had hoped that I would try and torture him into divulging something. As I reflect on this today I'm pretty sure I would simply sit on his chest until the paddy wagon showed up.
I'm sure there are those out there willing to defend these people that failed to detain him. I'm sure some would say that I would have done the same thing as these other people and stood immobilized. To these people I say you may be right. I have never been in such a situation and do not fully know how I would react to it. I would hope I could at least make the simple declaration that may spur others into action: TERRORIST!
...are they really that apathetic?
If you roll on over to my sitemeter you will notice that I have around 29,500 hits since I started it rolling. I was hoping this little number could move up to 30,000 (only 500 more) by or on August 3rd. That shouldn't be too hard considering that's nine days away. at about 60 hits per day I should be there with no problems.
Now, what's so important about August 3rd? Ask around, maybe Jane would know. She was my cherry popper after all.