There is some old superstition that Friday 13th
is unlucky. The origin is unclear and is deemed by most folks who use logic as
their yardstick to be a load of slurry. That has all changed. Forever more,
Friday 13th of November will be remembered as the date on which the decent
citizens of Paris were butchered and maimed in their own beloved Capital city.
At Stade de France at 21.21 three explosions were heard on the perimeter of the
ground. It is believed that this terrorist act took the lives of three people.
This was just the beginning! It was followed by
four more sets of attacks by bomb and bullet culminating in the slaughter of 87
concert goers at 21.49 near Le Bataclan Boulevard Voltaire. In 40
minutes eight terrorists killed 129 innocent civilians and maimed another 200,
many of these critically. It was the worst atrocity in Europe since the Alcalá
de Henares-Madrid bombings in 2004 when 191 persons from 17 countries were blown
to infinity by the same terrorist source.
All sorts of theories are emerging now just as
with the Russian airliner that blew up over Sinai in Egypt recently. I have
long espoused the view that if any man is ready and willing to die in
committing an atrocity of this nature he is virtually impossible to stop or
anticipate. The 911 bombings in New York at the World Trade Centre was another
one of these mass murders when 3000 people perished as was the Lockerbie
Bombing of a Pam Am flight in 2003 when 270 souls were blown to bits. These
mass murders will undoubtedly continue as there is no security system in the
world that can prevent them.
Bono, the fool, described the massacre as an
attack on ‘music’. What a plonker. I repeat that if I wished to walk into a
disco anywhere in Europe with a cache of guns and grenades and was happy to be
among the victims there is nothing to stop me committing wholesale carnage.
This is why I take off my hat to Australia. No bullshit there about an
inclusive society. Their immigration security system is the best in the world
and nobody gets the benefit of the doubt. Proper order.
In this respect Ireland is a joke but will
probably escape atrocities of this nature and magnitude because we are of no
consequence on a global basis. If the Gendarmes of France and their Military
are helpless in these situations can you imagine how the Irish Police Force and
the Army would fare out? Better off to have the disciples of Baden Powell who
at least have an appropriate motto to govern their members; ‘Be Prepared’.
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