A Letter to the Terrorists, from London

I have been very encouraged by the Brits lack of panic regarding this attack. Would that we Americans would adopt this attitude instead of running around like Chicken Little fearing everything and seeing danger where there is none. Face it, we are not safe and Dear Leader has done nothing to make us safer. There isn't an army or police force large enough to protect us from this. There is no "fighting the terrorists there so we won't have to fight them here."

So, let's get on with our lives and work on the stuff we can control. Like, oh, the causes that breed this sort of response. Choke off their source of recruits by actually changing the way we engage the rest of the world. Most especially, let's stop thinking and acting as though our power and wealth gives us ownership rights over the rest of the globe.

From the London News Review, July 7

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.

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