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azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-12 01:46 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2001-09-12 01:46 pm
If you hurt innocents, then who's the terrorist?
Terrorism does not justify violence. Terrorism justifies justice: maybe not swift, maybe not direct, but once the target is finally found, then justice will be given.
Not a life for a life. There are not enough guilty parties to exchange on that level, no sense in making a martyr. In my cruel anger, I would wish that each guilty party should feel upon himself the exact agony he or she dealt out, whether directly or indirectly. The excruciating death of those thousands upon thousands of people, those they should feel. The fire, the choking dust, the terror as the airplane aimed for the building, the terror as the airplane loomed and crashed, the agony in the hearts of friends, neighbors, lovers, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts and uncles as they saw, or heard. The free-fall out the window. The shock, the endless replay on the television screen. All these, they should see, and feel, as if they were those who were sinned against.
That would be justice.
Not a life for a life. There are not enough guilty parties to exchange on that level, no sense in making a martyr. In my cruel anger, I would wish that each guilty party should feel upon himself the exact agony he or she dealt out, whether directly or indirectly. The excruciating death of those thousands upon thousands of people, those they should feel. The fire, the choking dust, the terror as the airplane aimed for the building, the terror as the airplane loomed and crashed, the agony in the hearts of friends, neighbors, lovers, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts and uncles as they saw, or heard. The free-fall out the window. The shock, the endless replay on the television screen. All these, they should see, and feel, as if they were those who were sinned against.
That would be justice.