A letter to the terrorists 



I read this at the London News Review and think it's awfully apt. The sort of thing I wish I'd written myself.

What the fuck do you think you're doing?

This is London. We've dealt with your sort before. You don't try and pull this on us.

Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you're trying to do, it's not going to work.

All you've done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don't get rewarded for this kind of crap.

And if, as your MO indicates, you're an al-Qaeda group, then you're out of your tiny minds.

Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we've got news for you. We don't much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We'll deal with that ourselves. We're London, and we've got our own way of doing things, and it doesn't involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.

And that's because we're better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we're going to go about our lives. We're going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we're going to work. And we're going down the pub.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

Watching the news this evening I was filled with pride as a Londoner. If the same thing had happened in New York or Washington DC there would have been panic, everyone would have rushed home and shops and businesses would close. But we're slightly more stoic than that. Perhaps it's 30 years of conditioning by the IRA, but the way London calmly went about it's day was a tribute to why nutters with semtex will never win. I'll bet the pubs are packed tonight.
 

Posted: Thu - July 7, 2005 at 07:36 pm        

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