panic on the streets of...
Aug. 9th, 2011 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perevisionVery upset, unhappy and fearful about what's happening in my favourite city right now.
If you want to hear some balanced and well-thought-out posts on the riots, here they are:
http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/08/1004737/-London-Burning:-Police-Now-Deploying-Armoured-Vehicles
All I can think of is 7/7, when I would rather walk home than take the Tube or bus. In many ways, this is worse. This isn't a faceless malevolence, a "foreign" evil (and the 7/7 terrorists were citizens too!). These are Londoners. And it isn't even safe to walk home. In some places there isn't anything left to come home to.
And I still want to be there. I want to help. I want to witness. I want to make sure my friends are safe. I want to Do My Bit.
Hang in there, London. You can get through this. My love and thoughts are with you.
If you want to hear some balanced and well-thought-out posts on the riots, here they are:
http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-london.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/08/1004737/-London-Burning:-Police-Now-Deploying-Armoured-Vehicles
All I can think of is 7/7, when I would rather walk home than take the Tube or bus. In many ways, this is worse. This isn't a faceless malevolence, a "foreign" evil (and the 7/7 terrorists were citizens too!). These are Londoners. And it isn't even safe to walk home. In some places there isn't anything left to come home to.
And I still want to be there. I want to help. I want to witness. I want to make sure my friends are safe. I want to Do My Bit.
Hang in there, London. You can get through this. My love and thoughts are with you.
