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Thank you Anni. A voice of reason.
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
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More info. The passengers did take action. It seems one passenger yelled, "stop stabbing him, you low life bastardo'!", and upon hearing this, the other passengers became incensed, wrestled him to the ground, and held him until police arrived, whereupon the vigilantes demanded the shouter be charged with hate speech. Cool.;-)
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If the guy was wrestled to the ground during the stabbing, when did the head come off?
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More info. The passengers did take action. It seems one passenger yelled, "stop stabbing him, you low life bastardo'!", and upon hearing this, the other passengers became incensed, wrestled him to the ground, and held him until police arrived, whereupon the vigilantes demanded the shouter be charged with hate speech. Cool.;-)
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Issodhos Tsk, tsk. You used pronoun ambiguity to disguise a swipe at the famous or infamous tendency of Canadians to attack hate speech before it becomes hate action. Iss bad!
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Canadian beheading victim's family asks to grieve in peace A sentiment I share. Why is this news? Why is it taking up so many pages of responses? It is sad, it is rare, it is unfortunate, but is it newsworthy? I don't see it as a topic of levity or gloming on tangential prejudices to make a point. It just happened. And nothing anyone on the bus did would have made a difference to the victim, or likely change the possibility for any future victims of similar attacks. I suspect we will find that the attacker suffers from untreated schizophrenia, but that won't change the reality of the families involved who have lost a loved one senselessly.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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...p.s. By the way, it would have only taken one gun -- or the crowbar -- or multiple hands.:-) Perhaps it wasn't "Flight 93-ish" enough to unite the other passengers...who were perhaps more in a "Kitty Genovese-ish" mode/mood. 
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And nothing anyone on the bus did would have made a difference to the victim, or likely change the possibility for any future victims of similar attacks.... So, I should wll not bother to take my refresher if First Aid, especially the CPR portion? I disagree. While there's life there's hope.
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...p.s. By the way, it would have only taken one gun -- or the crowbar -- or multiple hands.:-) Perhaps it wasn't "Flight 93-ish" enough to unite the other passengers...who were perhaps more in a "Kitty Genovese-ish" mode/mood. I have to agree. How can a bus load of people allow someone to get beheaded? Did they all run off of the bus or something, or did they stay on it while this was happening? I think it's a duty by just being a human being to take action of some sort.
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