On all the news channels, newspapers and media, it seems that we in England at least have sunk to a new low! A plot is uncovered to strike at the heart of our democracy, religious zealots hijacking the cause of religion to turn the mainstream majority into a frenzy of hatred. We are at the highest state of alert, with all the forces of national security and state machinery being turned against the suspected perpetrators of such an awful plot.
Sounds familiar, it could be any day since 9/11 or 7/7.
Worse, there are many who celebrate! They party, they commemorate that the thought of this potential outrage, this terrorist atrocity, this audacious attempt to set citizen against citizen, to fuel racial and religious hatred the world over. It is truly a scandal. And yet there is the potential for these horrible people to be remembered long after the meaning of what they believed in, that which led them to believe in their hearts that the ends justified the means, to enter into the collective memory and be celebrated, to be glorified, not vilified. The people of New York, of Mumbai, or Darfour, will remember crucial dates for ever, the dates etched into their hearts with sadness, with memories of innocent loved ones lost in ultimately pointless acts of evil. Time heals these wounds, it appears. Let us hope so.
London and Britain remember too, what could have been the greatest terrorist atrocity of all on these shores, had it succeeded. 5/11.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot. Are we guilty as charged?
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