Enjolras (capable d'être terrible) (revolutionary) wrote in thedoorway, @ 2013-06-26 09:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | !network post, combeferre, enjolras |
Yesterday, Batignolles, the 17th arrondissement of Paris was attacked. While details and speculation are still flashing across the news, what is known is that it was a suicide mission, and that at least ten people are dead. Ten innocent people. My Paris is no stranger to this brand of violence. In February and September of 1986, Paris bombings killed hundreds, during the second World War 68,778 civilians were killed in France by Allied and German bombs. Before explosives, there were guns and bayonets and guillotines. Before that...
I understand that the payment for change and progression is blood. I understand that that is how it has always been and as much as I hoped and believed and prayed for change, it is not yet that perfect world without death that we are living in now.
But one citizen's death is too many. There are those who give their lives and those willing to lay down for the greater good of the people at his back, but life should not be taken, should not be stolen from the men, women and children who have done nothing wrong. And while I can, and do, advocate the need for more walls to be taken down and more freedoms be awarded to all people regardless of race, creed or income -- the cities of tomorrow can not be built on the skeletons of innocent citizens as those before have been.
And whoever is responsible is not innovative, is not glorious and is not enlightened. The deaths of innocent people have branded him a coward, regardless of his goals, and if I had the opportunity I would execute him myself.