We don`t get people speaking up like that in the UK , I for one liked it.
It is lucky for us, so very rare for the UK to be in the midst of a terrorist attack. I can`t even imagine what it is like to be even a few miles away from something that has happened. And it happens to other people in places where they thought they were safe too.
I remember working in a company that had departments in Debenhams Stores in Bedfordshire in England years ago. Working as a temporary manager in two of them I had to implement some of the security measures that Debenhams employed. One of which was a full search of the area we used looking for hidden items. One of the items I prayed not to find was an IRA bomb and thank Christ I never did.
I was aware that there was a possible situation that could occur where I was and if not there somewhere else, to someone else. That situation was not me being paranoid but a reality that could happen any day. Like other situations in life the fear that precedes anything whether it happens or not is very real.
I was not all that young but I was quite naïve in part. I knew what things looked like, I knew what they did and who would have done it had anyone found anything of that kind. That was all my experience then.
From then until now the world had changed quite drastically. My view of the world change too with the added bonus of being diagnosed with PTSD on top of it all. The only reading material that seemed to help me was about people who were in the armed services, the emergency services, people who had been kidnapped, all who had been in terrible situations, somehow survived and got PTSD. It helped me see how others got through the day.
As time went by there were more traumatic incidents for me to over come and in the world things seemed to worsen considerably. Also as all these things in my world and the world in total were unfolding the more tolerant of people in general I became, even people around me doing things that I once I found annoying. I became more at peace in that sense of toleration and acceptance. But I began to anger easier in situations where people and animals were abused, terrorised, where ever they were, where ever they came from.
I once shouted at a man in the town centre during a market day which included stalls from around the world. The previous one had included a Native American clothing stall. The owners had put up a Tepee, they blessed everything that was sold also gave some of their money to a charity. This man ridiculed these peoples traditions and their beliefs. I lost my temper instantly and let rip at this person. No one intervened. No one called the police.
I don`t usually start yelling at someone and humiliating them so they walk away I felt he deserved it. Maybe he learned a lesson, maybe he didn`t but I know what it is like to feel so strongly that you let go and verbally rip in to someone for their disregard of humanity. Isn`t that freedom of speech after all ? Isn`t that standing up for what is right ?
