Church meeting fixed for Clarke

Thank you very much for your words: I am passing any links and comments back to my Dad who is very pleased and grateful.

Rachel's father quoted on her blog.

"I have a question, my daughter was feet away from the 7/7 Kings Cross bomb, and she and some other surivors have said they are not angry with the bombers, but with the Government, because there was no public enquiry. Why is there no public enquiry?"

Did I read that correctly? Rachel is not angry with the bombers, the fanatics that murdered nearly 60 of her fellow Londoners? Her ire is directed not at murderers who were responsible for this atrocity but at the government because there has not been a public enquiry.

You read right; the bombers are dead. They no longer exist. Hatin gthem only increases my sense of injustice and suffering. To move on, I have to let go of thei idea of revenge or hatred of the attacker. Because they are dead, this is easier.

Meanwhile, the Government, whom I trusted and supported and voted for let me down by lying to me, and mishandling the situation in Iraq, bringing in draconian lrgislation and making political capital out of acts of terror. This makes me angry, and this I do not forgive. I am not alone in this viewpoint. I have not yet met a single survivor who is angry at the bombers, but there is much anger at the Government. Not all survivors are angry, but many are. My father was doign justice to that by asking a question we would like answered: why is there no public enquiry?

Just wanted to ask, why does everyone think that the government doesn't want an enquiry? Is it simply because they don't want to be blamed because of the iraq war, or is there another factor involved?

Rachel,

It seems that you have been using your survivor status to push a certain political agenda. Tell me, you must feel a least a modicum of anger at the murderers of your fellow passengers. I mean it certainly ruined Sir Geldof's pathetic call for a million anti-globalist ninnies to descend on the G-8 summit and tie up the police with their pitiful narcissist preening: the papier-mache Bush and Blair puppets, the ersatz ethnic drumming, etc. If no anger, am I to surmise that you feel their actions were justified and they had legitimate grievances? For instance the Zionist occupation of Palestine, the war in Iraq the Crusades?

Rachel

"The greatest outrage in peacetime Britain surely deserves to be properly addressed so that we can begin to understand why it is that segments of our British Islamic young people are becoming so radicalised that they can contemplate the mass murder of innocent fellow citizens?"

Your father seems a very sincere man, but I'm afraid he is terribly ignorant of Islam.