Do you think ISIS gives two pins for your pathetic hashtag
prayers and candles.Stop waiting to be slaughtered and
demand our leaders do something"Katie Hopkins.
Mohamed took a truck and drove it into men, women and children celebrating
Bastille day in Nice. He killed 84.And who yet knows of the horrors stillto spew
from hospital wards-lives fractured,crumpled,crushed.
One minute they were jubilant, locals and tourists alike celebrating Bastille day together. The next, lying splintered on the floor.
And the most sickening thing of all - worse than spilt blood, fractured bodies, children with legs contorted out of human control, the reek of death, is our horribly sanitised response to it all.
Pathetic. Predictably impotent.
Evil mowed us down in a monster truck. And we tweeted like lethargic birds between Egyptian cotton sheets.
Celebrities rushed to social media with their message 'not again', designers comforted with a patriotic graphic, tea candles were lit and instagrammed. There will be a vigil in a public square. Again.
A hashtag is born #PrayForNice, exploding into a thousand others as people want to #PrayFor France or #PrayForHumanity, failing to acknowledge the horrible truth that this attack was done in some spurious god's name. You want to pray for Nice? You think religion will help solve this?
Religion and its bonkers side-shoots are the problem.
Politicians tell us to stand united. The Prime Minister of France has said he will not allow the country to be destabilised. President Hollande reminds us terrorism will not be tolerated.
Well big news: France IS destabilised - in a perpetual state of Emergency. We do not stand united. We are divided, we are ripped apart. And yet we tolerate it every time.
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