Originally Posted by pan6467

Today, my heart goes out to my brethren and sisters in the U.K and around the world that may have lost loved ones or had loved ones maimed.

There is no excuse for this nor is there reason beside someone wanting to cause great harm to innocents.

Today and tomorrow is a day for all to share the tears, the heartfelt sadnesses and the laughter from the memories of the lost loved ones.

After the mourning, we can come out with resolve and find ways to strike back and take out those responsible.

In the coming days, there will be much political grandstanding and sides accusing each other, but we cannot allow our focus to be taken off the cruelty and evilness of those truly responsible. We cannot fight ourselves and divide our houses anymore, the terrorists, the cowards, the evil feasts on that, relies on that and wants that.

It's like the Star Trek episode where the little lighty thing watched as the Federation and Klingons fought on the Enterprise, to where noone truly died they would get back up and fight more. The lighty thing fed on it until Kirk and the Klingon commander realized they had to make peace with each other and fight the true enemy.

Perhaps, that is a bad, or sophomoric analogy, but it is one desperately needed to help remind us who and what we truly want to strike back at....... not ourselves, not divide our house....... instead unite, find compromise and then show the only weakness we have is that of compassion for days like today.

Let us show the resolve of understanding the other side, let us be like the Kirk and the Klingons, and show these people that the more we are attacked the closer we become and the stronger our resolve becomes to find those responsible and bring them to justice......

Without division, without fear the terrorists can never win. With division, inner turmoil and bitterness in our house.... the terrorists feast and thrive.

Which do you choose?