Posted on 05/26/2017 12:11:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
British band Oasis' 1995 hit Don't Look Back In Anger took on a whole different meaning for a particular crowd in Manchester on Thursday morning.
Traffic was halted as the city's residents assembled in St. Ann's square for a memorial event honouring victims of the Manchester Arena bombing on Monday. The crowd gathered around the floral tributes and fell silent at 11am to observe one minute of silence.
After a minute had passed however, a lone lady began singing to herself. The crowd, upon hearing her, started following her lead, before bursting into a sad, poignant rendition of the hit single. Watch the video here:
Videos of the moment quickly circulated around the internet and made its way on news sites.
Online however, many users on Facebook criticised the crowd's stance, debating that anger should and rightfully be expressed.
Some also saw it as a sign of disrespect to those who had passed, stating that such a response after family members and loved ones had suffered was simply illogical.
Others felt that such a pacifist response was downright weak.
But there has also been occasional praise for what the crowd did, with some Facebook users echoing the message of peace and forgiveness evoked in the video.
Users criticised attempts by netizens to incite more anger, which they saw as only serving to encourage extremists and perpetuate the cycle of hate and violence.
Elsewhere however, an image has emerged of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force (RAF) with the defiant message, "love from Manchester <3", scrawled on a missile bound for an airstrike against ISIS.
The RAF had responded to confirm the authenticity of the photo, amidst speculation that the photo was a hoax.
Rational, honorable, ETHICAL people are rightly very angry... at the terrorists themselves, at all of their many enablers and apologists, at all of the weak minded weak willed Leftards who refuse to fight back properly.... yes, there is plenty to be angry about, and anger is part of a rational, moral response to terrorism.
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its mighty waters.
The struggle may be a moral one or it may be a physical one, or it may both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglass
BOTTOM LINE: EVIL, IN ALL ITS FORMS, MUST BE RESISTED BOTH IDEOLOGICALLY AND BY “AGITATION” (in the instant case, WAR)!
The alternative is submission.
The ARABIC word for submission is — ready? — ISLAM!
And to those of you who respond that Douglass was talking about SLAVERY, SO AM I!
Its name is ISLAM!!
The Western world in general and England in particular is afflicted too much obsession with singing and popular music which can turn a nation’s red blood to dishwater.
English clowns either serious mental health exams or they are terminal with suicide syndrome.
Anglo-Saxons have become the biggest pansies of Europe.
I guess it wasn’t part of the Materplan.
These people have no shame.
Forwarded to some of my Blue Badger friends.
I think a better song would be Bury Our Heads in the Sand.
Did you draw that??? Or was it pre-existing?
Missiles for ISIS are fine.
I want to see Merkel, and about 30 other public figures, hanging upside-down in front of a gas station. They are the real murderers of Manchester, Paris, etc.
Step 7 is next.
It’s vent art. Steal at will.
Here we go again, candle light vigils singing about brotherly love, dont hate, we all have to get along UNTIL THE NEXT ONE, and then they will have candle light vigils singing about brotherly love, dont hate, we all have to get along. PEOPLE DESERVE THE GOVERNMENT THEY GET
Best post yet.
All these memorials, candle-lighting ceremonies, remembrances, vigils, etc., do nothing to prevent this in the future.
Acknowledge your anger, then harness and direct it to prevent more of this. Stop cowering and apologizing to predators who plan to eat you for lunch.
Another leftist, liberal, sentimental bit of hogwash. WHAT CYCLE? They murder. Then they murder again. Then they murder again. Then they murder again...
You know, we've got something in common, me and you. You know that? I must have been a couple of years older than you. I saw my brother stabbed through the heart right on our doorstep. He weren't much of a villain what skewered him. Willem, the lad's name was. He ran off before anyone could spit. And I just stood there, watching my brother die. Here's the funny part. I can't picture my brother's face anymore. But Willem, oh, he was a nice-looking boy. He had good white teeth, blue eyes, one of those dimpled chins all the girls like. I would think about him when I was working, when I was drinking, when I was having a sh t. It got to the point where I would say his name every night before I went to bed. Willem. Willem. Willem. A prayer almost. Well, one day, Willem came riding back into town. I buried an axe so deep in Willem's skull they had to bury him with it. Willem's horse got me to the Wall and I've been wearing black ever since. That'll help you sleep, eh?
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