|
medpundit |
||
 |
 |
|
Thursday, July 07, 2005UPDATES: Tony Blair: "It is important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. Whatever they do, it is our determination that they will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear in this country, and in other civilised nations throughout the world." Charles Arthur: Brutal - without warning, on people innocent of anything except being somewhere. Pointless - because it will stiffen the resolve of people not to be cowed by this. Inhuman - to conceive this, to plan it, to hold it in your mind and work towards a day when you carry it out, you've really lost the empathy that makes us human. The view from the hospitals. London Mayor Ken Livingstone: "This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful; it is not aimed at presidents or prime ministers; it was aimed at ordinary working class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christians, Hindu and Jew, young and old, indiscriminate attempt at slaughter irrespective of any considerations, of age, of class, of religion, whatever, that isn't an ideology, it isn't even a perverted faith, it's just indiscriminate attempt at mass murder, and we know what the objective is, they seek to divide London. They seek to turn Londoners against each other and Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack," said Mr Livingston. He then had a message for the terrorists who had organised the explosions. "I wish to speak through you directly, to those who came to London to claim lives, nothing you do, how many of us you kill will stop that flight to our cities where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another, whatever you do, how many you kill, you will fail." RandomReality, a London EMT: I think we had a lot less calls than we normally have, I was sitting on station for longer than normal until I, and another manned an ambulance and took a maternataxi to an Essex maternity department. Once the shock had settled, I started to feel immense pride that the LAS, the other emergency services, the hospitals, and all the other support groups and organisations were all doing such an excellent job. To my eyes it seemed that the Major Incident planning was going smoothly, turning chaos into order. ...The medical staff at the BMA building did their best to save their 'civilian' staff from looking at the carnage that was left from the bomb on the bus. More on the British Medical Association building. posted by Sydney on 7/07/2005 08:24:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
|
