I admit it, I'm one of those people that generally suffer from pacifist tendencies, and though I find it tempting to agree that it's a good idea not to give them the satisfaction of publicity, I have the sneaking suspicion that people would notice something a little different about New York.

(I have a little vignette in my mind of a couple of junkies walking out of the St Marks Place street market and saying, "Hey...didn't there, like, used to be something over there, man?")

As an amateurish and reluctant student of history I've always suspected the motives of those that bang the drum and trumpet a call to arms.  They either make money out of it somehow, or are responding to some base instinct without satisfying much of a moral imperative.

I generally believe human society to be much hardier than we realize, it can withstand tremendous injury, previous wars are a testament to that effect.  It's amazing to me how we have been able to survive so long, and recover from so much.  I don't believe in killing people, not even those with the
blood of innocents on their hands.  And yet for me, there are some rare acts that are not forgivable, not negotiable, and not acceptable.

So, in a circumstance such as this, I sadly applaud the fury of the civil spotlight, fiercely seeking to rabbit them out from the rocks they've crawled under, and dispassionately or not, administering whatever 'correction' is necessary to ensure it can't happen again in my child's lifetime.

What they have done is commit inhumanly gross genocide, and vicious annihilation is the minimal response.  They've made it clear, at least to me, that it is us or them.  I say them.

HH

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