Crime and Terrorism Today.
Today I was in a Halfords store when about seven young men in hoods came in and robbed it as customers and staff stood watching. People were wise, dont do anything unless someone is being threatened. One never does know what weapons they have concealed.
Here in London we waited almost four years after 9/11 for promised terrorist attack, as world knows now it came on 7/7
I felt anger that robbers today got clean away that no-one was able to stop them. I'm British and therefore gun shy, I dont want guns on our streets, but since 7/7 we have seen lots in hands of police. It seems the only way foreward is more arms, more willingness to use them, more force being allowed in law and order and defence! At time of robbery I felt, why is a store this large not defended, why is security guard not armed, why is there no protection for all the people in here? If those guys had guns, and many criminals round here do have them, then they could have shot anyone without any problem! I find this frightening, and as a citizen I feel naked and defensless in face of determined armed crime!
I travel daily on Londons transport system aware that another terrorist attack could come any day. I feel that only stiff resistance, armed response to terrorism, is only way ahead. I also feel we have to hurt them bad, to, yes be cruel, be tough, make them wish they had never started out to attack us.
But I'm also a christian, and genuinly abhore violence, yet I do beleive state has that right, the right to kill to defend its citizens, the right to be cruel to protect the inocent. I dont wish this, but I see it as the only way ahead!
Someone has said to me, "Could be this be God's judgment on two countries, USA and UK, that He has blessed so much, and who have turned away from him?" I dont know the answer, but its certainly possible. I know Britian has turned from its christian roots in a massive way, the church is often mocked and Bible standards are brushed aside, this does sadden me. Yet the people I work amoungs, The Transport Police, the Railway folks, are the salt of the earth, the best you could get to know! So I still beleive there is a lot of respect for God in this nation, even if respect is lacking for the church, which gets sillier and more wimpish each day, as the world gets more evil and dangerous. Today people are looking to the state for answers as church has failed miserably to have any kind of sane voice!
Here in London we waited almost four years after 9/11 for promised terrorist attack, as world knows now it came on 7/7
I felt anger that robbers today got clean away that no-one was able to stop them. I'm British and therefore gun shy, I dont want guns on our streets, but since 7/7 we have seen lots in hands of police. It seems the only way foreward is more arms, more willingness to use them, more force being allowed in law and order and defence! At time of robbery I felt, why is a store this large not defended, why is security guard not armed, why is there no protection for all the people in here? If those guys had guns, and many criminals round here do have them, then they could have shot anyone without any problem! I find this frightening, and as a citizen I feel naked and defensless in face of determined armed crime!
I travel daily on Londons transport system aware that another terrorist attack could come any day. I feel that only stiff resistance, armed response to terrorism, is only way ahead. I also feel we have to hurt them bad, to, yes be cruel, be tough, make them wish they had never started out to attack us.
But I'm also a christian, and genuinly abhore violence, yet I do beleive state has that right, the right to kill to defend its citizens, the right to be cruel to protect the inocent. I dont wish this, but I see it as the only way ahead!
Someone has said to me, "Could be this be God's judgment on two countries, USA and UK, that He has blessed so much, and who have turned away from him?" I dont know the answer, but its certainly possible. I know Britian has turned from its christian roots in a massive way, the church is often mocked and Bible standards are brushed aside, this does sadden me. Yet the people I work amoungs, The Transport Police, the Railway folks, are the salt of the earth, the best you could get to know! So I still beleive there is a lot of respect for God in this nation, even if respect is lacking for the church, which gets sillier and more wimpish each day, as the world gets more evil and dangerous. Today people are looking to the state for answers as church has failed miserably to have any kind of sane voice!
posted by Chaplain Gentles at 12:57 PM
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