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Jun. 10th, 2009 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireShooting at Holocaust Museum Kills Guard
I can't believe people are more worried about the prisoners in Guantanamo and our Muslim neighbors than the hate filled home variety terrorists in our backyards.
Back in 1998 I visited the Holocaust museum during a week spent in DC. What I remember most was the intense level of security, the overwhelming sense of horror and the peculiar smell of death in the room displaying mounds of shoes and other belongings left behind.
It's so hard to see these things - the murder of Dr. Tiller, the nasty tirade at KRXQ and a murderous rampage by a hateful old man - without wanting to strike out. In the face of such violence, it is hard to hold back. Part of me doesn't want to be the better person in these moments. I want to hit someone, hard and in the face.
I can't believe people are more worried about the prisoners in Guantanamo and our Muslim neighbors than the hate filled home variety terrorists in our backyards.
Back in 1998 I visited the Holocaust museum during a week spent in DC. What I remember most was the intense level of security, the overwhelming sense of horror and the peculiar smell of death in the room displaying mounds of shoes and other belongings left behind.
It's so hard to see these things - the murder of Dr. Tiller, the nasty tirade at KRXQ and a murderous rampage by a hateful old man - without wanting to strike out. In the face of such violence, it is hard to hold back. Part of me doesn't want to be the better person in these moments. I want to hit someone, hard and in the face.
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Date: 2009-06-11 04:08 pm (UTC)I tell ya, when he finally dies, they're going to have to bury him somewhere totally secret (so secret even the family doesn't know) to prevent people from holding an ABBA-themed dance party on his grave...