Stuff

[lizziec]

I wanted to mention something on this journal about



my dad who would have been 58 today. This brings with it its own difficulties and grief but owing to the events in London today I don't feel that I can possibly wallow in it. Instead there is a teeny mention of this wonderful man, my father, Phillip Robert Overal, who is still greatly missed by his family.

As for London, the dead and injured were just ordinary people doing ordinary things. They were people who were thinking about the weather, or work, or what was for dinner tonight and that is the tragedy that hurts so many people but I will not grieve for them. Instead I grieve for the people who are left behind and the years of pain they face.

Despite the attacks today I still think ID cards are a very bad idea, as is the further removal of our human rights. That is the only way in which the terrorists will win.

Comments

[bleandweller.livejournal.com]

ID cards: agreed wholeheartedly.

[barakta]

I wondered what the "I wish it had been tomorrow" was about earlier, and had meant to ask if this was a special anniversary. I don't think you get much more special, or should I say personal to you than this.

Each person is important to those who knew them (and many who didn't), each will be remembered in a variety of different ways. Lets hope good memories of the people who died as a result of today will live as long as those good memories of your dad to you. I will also be thinking of the families and friends and their pain. :(

Natalya

p.s ID cards, too damned right. Not sure how they'd change this, like they didn't change Madrid.

[ukcdaz.livejournal.com]

ID cards would not have prevented this. Only the searching of every single person boarding a bus, train or other form of public transport would have any hope of stopping this kind of attack from happening, and that, I think, is both politically and financially unviable. ID cards will be an expensive way for the government to monitor us more, and they probably won't work anyway given the governments track record with IT projects. They should employ Canterbury graduates.

[bethanthepurple.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard of him he sounded like an amazing man. These things are never right or fair. See you on IRC if you want a shoulder hon.