http://cluster.othermaps.com/2-days-later mediated space etc. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:45:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://cluster.othermaps.com/2-days-later/comment-page-1#comment-895 Page’s Page » Blog Archive » Best Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:42:04 +0000 http://cluster.othermaps.com/?p=260#comment-895 [...] If this really is true, then the following text is one of the signs of humanity at it’s best: On the day of the attack, one of the first people interviewed was a barrister who had very narrowly escaped one of the attacks. He was clearly in shock, but talked at some length about what he had seen and been through. At the end of the interview, the reporter asked him if he thought the bombs were set by Islamist terrorists. His response was something like ‘I’m a barrister. We shouldn’t judge before all the evidence is in’. And when asked what he thought about the poeple who had done this, his reply was ‘Pity them’. The reporter was surprised. ‘Why pity them?’. ‘Because anyone who is capable of such a thing deserves pity.’ [...] [...] If this really is true, then the following text is one of the signs of humanity at it’s best: On the day of the attack, one of the first people interviewed was a barrister who had very narrowly escaped one of the attacks. He was clearly in shock, but talked at some length about what he had seen and been through. At the end of the interview, the reporter asked him if he thought the bombs were set by Islamist terrorists. His response was something like ‘I’m a barrister. We shouldn’t judge before all the evidence is in’. And when asked what he thought about the poeple who had done this, his reply was ‘Pity them’. The reporter was surprised. ‘Why pity them?’. ‘Because anyone who is capable of such a thing deserves pity.’ [...]

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