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.
This will do more to stop the bastards than singing a 20 year old pop tune.................
Stupid, suicidal Brits.
Be not angry at your new masters. Bareth you your bottoms for them, and boweth down in submission, for your government hath welcomed your replacements, and hath deemed them worthy of killing you.
A song from a band consisting of two brothers who no longer even speak to each other.
Guess they are still looking back and angry about it.
Maybe someone should play them a song.
They have no clue, sharia types are their replacements.
They should look forward in anger to drive them out!
Now THAT’S an appropriate response!
“Don’t look back...” This happened a few DAYS ago! I’d say, “Unbelievable”, but it’s not a bit surprising to me.
Even that won’t do much when fired halfway around the world. It’s going to take being really mean to them at home. Like forcibly removing them. Pretty much all of them.
Especially when it involves innocent kids. If a person is an adult and wants to get blown up by imported terrorists, good riddance to them I say. But when it gets innocent kids killed, that is nothing short of pure evil. Every last adult Brit that is inviting this into their country are absolute scum of the earth, no different than these Islamo Nazi psychopaths
>> “Don’t Look Back In Anger”
The pathetic attitude that facilitates the terrorism.
oh please.
This is what they should be singing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oGbuA69sAM
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drums
There is a life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Vive Les Deplorables!
No, look forward to the next terrorist outrage, when you'll have a brand-new chance to not look back in anger.
Is there any evidence that crushing your enemies perpetuates a "cycle of hate and violence"?
In fact, is there any evidence for the EXISTENCE of a "cycle of hate and violence"?
I'm usually quite welcome in Berlin, Hamburg, Tokyo, and Hiroshima. Any "cycle" was quite effectively terminated in 1945.
May the Brits do likewise.
Reminds me of when GWB called folks trying to monitor the Southern border....vigilantes.
Defend yourself or die. No one else apparently will.
Hopefully that gets into enough noggins over there real soon.
All the candles, flowers, photos, Teddy bears, concerts—they are all rituals the “elite” encourage to “deal with”—i.e., NORMALIZE—the Muslim invasion.
The only non-stomach-turning response to the Muslim invasion is to string up Western heads of state and other traitors, and to begin the expulsion of the invaders.
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