Remember

[Rooster]

52 people died in London on this day last year.

For what?

[Foxhound]

idiocy, that's what. I wish those terrorists would realize that they're not getting anywhere with the whole thing. the whole thing makes me sick.

[Holyman83]

Was that the train bombing or I'm I thinking of something else?

[Moddex]

The train bombing was in Madrid Espania.

[DesertFoxCat]

From the Wiki:

The 7 July 2005 London bombings were a series of coordinated suicide bombings that struck London's public transport system during the morning rush hour.

At 8:50 a.m. (BST, UTC+1), three bombs exploded within 50 seconds of each other on three London Underground trains. A fourth bomb exploded on a bus nearly an hour later at 9:47 a.m. in Tavistock Square. The bombings led to a severe, day-long disruption of the city's transport and mobile telecommunications infrastructure.

Fifty-two people (all of them civilians) were killed in the attacks, as were the four bombers, and about 700 injured, of whom about 100 required overnight hospital treatment or more. The incident was the deadliest single act of terrorism in the United Kingdom since Lockerbie (the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which killed 270), and the deadliest bombing in London since the Second World War. More people were killed in the suicide bombings than in any single Provisional IRA attack (in Great Britain or Ireland) during the Troubles.

Police investigators identified four men whom they believe to be suicide bombers. These are the first suicide bombings in Western Europe. As of April 2006 it is believed that the bombers acted alone on a shoestring budget, although al-Qaeda did claim responsibility after the bombings.

The bombings came while the UK was hosting the first full day of the 31st G8 summit, a day after London was chosen to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, two days after the beginning of the trial of fundamentalist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, five days after the Live 8 concert was held there, and shortly after Britain had assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. The bombings were on the anniversary of large-scale racially motivated rioting in Bradford four years previously.

We really got to teach these people better ways to air their grievences, preferably ones that they can see work.

[Moddex]

Oh, that train bombing... Yes, I remember indeed... I was at first thinking the train bombing that was caused by terrorists...

[penguinita]

p'raps this is more suited to 'world events' rahter than 'anything'?

[Liberal Cynic]

Oh, that train bombing... Yes, I remember indeed... I was at first thinking the train bombing that was caused by terrorists...

I think this one was caused by terrorists too, but I'm not sure.

[Zaaphod]

p'raps this is more suited to 'world events' rahter than 'anything'?

'Tis. Been moved.


Anyway.. I don't know what I can say about what happened in London last year. It was a terrible thing.

[Liberal Cynic]

Life is not without suffering. Sadly we must go day to day knowing this will happen, It is our right to care or not to. It is a common thing taken how ever one takes it. We must hope for the best and try to believe that it will turn out good, because the things in life you shouldn't believe are real, and the things you should believe are not alway true. It is your choice what path you choose, and regardless there is no wrong path.

[Moddex]

Right and wrong, good and evil, these are conceptions and opinions we must understand. There is now proof that either one can be accounted on something as fact, thence, we must coexist in the masses as who we are, not what we think we should be, morally, or factually. We can choose to precieve who we are, but not others as there are more than one interpretations of other individuals. In short, we do not live to judge based on opinion, but live to progress. Time is eternal, but we live a finite life time. Make the most of your life, but don't take it for granted. Look at their loss as everyone's loss and gain from it. The world lost 52 potentially perfect beings. Let's cherish their potential and understand the loss.

[Tum0spoo]

I'm not touching the ethics of this with a 9 1/2 foot pole.
I will of course take a moment and hope that all those people are haveing a peacfull afterlife.

[Tabris_The_17th]

For nothing, that's what. That was a very sad day indeed.

[Liberal Cynic]

In many cases one countries patriot is another's terrorist. It is just another concept of perspective. We fail to see the world in anyother eye except our own. If we cannot even see ourselves in another view how are we supposed to judge others. If we can only see one side of a subject how can we tell what's right. If you were to look at a cube at only one side you would say it is a square, but look at it at all angles you see the whole picture, you don't see something wrong or right. This is the ability many people lack, specificly the people we vote to put in charge. This is in many reasons good and bad. Sometimes the best leaders are stupid, because it makes them honest. So just another example of dark and light. So all in all no ones death is ever in vain, for vain is just as relative as right or wrong. They died for a reason, one this is neither right or wrong. Though at my stand point, no right is given to harm others, just because one harms you. Taking on man's eye for an eye he took does not justify the action, but lower people to be just as the criminals. It is best to take the world as it is. And stand for something you believe, because you have got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.

Edit: Man, Do I feel phylisophical today.

[Rooster]

I do understand why they did what they did, and I'm not patriotic in the sleightest.

That's why I made sure this was the strip preceding the 7/7 one;



I got a lot of flack from friends saying "why do a tribute to 52 people when thousands of other innocent people die each day?"

My answer is this; The strip is not JUST about the 52. I'd been meaning to make a serious strip about the world's problems for a while, but when I realised it was the 7/7 aniversary, I used that as an excuse to draw one. Also, one of my friend's friends was hurt in the attack, so that hit it home for me.