Judging by my countries response you would have thought that it was a national holiday. I guess to some people, it is. I can sympathize with the families who lost loved ones on Sept. 11th 2001. To them, I'm sure a certain amount of justice has been served, and hopefully a decent level of closure has been felt. However, I am utterly sickened by the thousands of people gathering across our country belligerently cheering and glorifying this man's death. Needn't remind them that they are behaving the same way this man's supporters acted after 9/11. I choose to not celebrate violence of any sort...
I don't kill bugs
I don't poison rats
I don't eat meat
I don't support the death penalty
I don't believe in war
and I certainly don't agree with people cheering over the murder of a murderer.
I don't believe in most things, trust me, but my belief in nonviolence is one of the most persistent driving forces in my life. I'm saddened that we are unable to unite as a society to be rise above what happened today.
Rather then end this blog on a sad note, I'll leave you all (the 3 of you who actually read this) with some food for thought, from the man himself. I think he verbalized what I'm trying to say here in a much more intuitive way..
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