Precisely, GA. Don’t bother to read anything written by vested interests – it will serve little purpose and hardly further the argument.

Little I have read since my earlier post encourages me to spend anymore time here.:(

“It’s always easy to sit at a PC many hundreds of miles away and pontificate about what should have been and what ought to have been.”

Which is why I find some of the posting on this thread frankly insulting and irresponsible.

Why is it always necessary to pontificate on the details of events like this and analysis of the perpetrators and their motives? We simply do not have enough information to make considered, rational argument.

A bit of googleing will find you everything you need – several times over….;) And whichever way you look at it you will find no case for them – other than from all the vested interests, of course.

Thanks for the tip, Pagen.:) I knew it was on and then forgot!! I will look out for repeats or find it on iPlayer.

Servicemen fall into the category of those who have fought and died for their country – see my earlier post.

Apart from those who know me, I will not be remembered, nor will you.:)

” any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind….”

Yes, a very well known quotation which I have always felt was flawed as Donne never had a tyrant whose death might diminish him. Would he have written those words after Stalin, Po9l Pot, Hitler, Mao and those just in the 20th century?

We are all involved in mankind as was Breivik. But we all have very different roles to play. Some of us will be missed and some not.

I think most of us here feel we owe a debt to those who fought to preserve us from a dictatorial tyranny. I feel no debt towards Amy Whitehouse nor to a million others who I do not know and who died in “tragic” circumstances. I am not sure why any death is more tragic than another, to be honest, except by virtue of the age of the deceased.