I can’t stop reading nor thinking about what happened in Nice, 84 people dead, 200 injured and still some unaccounted for.
Bastille Day is the French Fourth of July, and it’s hard not to imagine a tragedy like the one this past Thursday, happening here.
I ask you, when did humanity take such flight?
This man who killed all these people, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex on wheels, careening at top speed, wasn’t even a member of ISIS, or any known terrorist group. He was just a commoner, for lack of a better term, with inexplicable hatred in his heart.
What do we know about Mohamed Lahavier-Bouhel?
He was 31, divorced, a father of three who still killed ten children during his repulsive rampage, kids mowed down like dolls unable to even attempt to protect themselves. The one saving grace is knowing, their last hours on earth were spent in joy and jubilation, if that’s even a comfort.
I truly can’t wrap my brain around such violence, a friend said, I should be used to by now, especially after witnessing 9/11.
I don’t ever want to be used to something so foreign to love and human decency while I’m still of this world.
Susannah
I hate to say this but you’d better find a way to become inured. Nice won’t be the last. Indeed, now that terrorists have seen how “effective” and “easy” it is to use a lorry for instant carnage, and that it is virtually impossible to defend or legislate against, you should expect many more. Sorry.
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I don’t want to think about what will happen next. I know you’re no fan of prayer, but that’s the route I’ll take…to pray, hope and expect a better world where peace still has a say.
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Folk have been praying for thousands of years: look where that’s got us.
We live in democracies. Our politicians are accountable. Let’s demand change.
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Pray changes things, believe it or not.
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Let’s not argue on your birthday.
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We can agree to disagree. It’s America, at least on this end, after all. 🙂
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Susannah, these senseless killings are truly incomprehensible. There is no way to understand why or how someone can be so filled with hate.
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I read what I could about him, but there isn’t much. He kept to himself, had a moody, lonely presence. One paper said, how handsome he was, like that held any weight. I don’t care if he looked like Cary Grant, something profound set him off. So disturbing Skinny, so terribly disturbing.
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There are no words.
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I know that. 😡
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Sometimes we have to accept that we will not get an answer, which is easier said than accepted. I feel a heightened sense of anger and just plain ole fuckery everywhere I go. The worst of people seem to be at an all time high. Hmm … I wonder why.
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I know, and it’s getting worse. Now they’re saying he planned it for a year. See, when someone doesn’t care about his own life nor his young son’s who will now grow up not only with no father, but the stigma of what his father has done, it’s a scary ballgame. Imagine, randomly running down all those people like they were rats. Can’t wrap my brain, what’s left of it, around it still.
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