Terrorising the Innocent
Aug. 10th, 2011 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caliente_ukThe news in the UK has been in the forefront of my mind over the last few days.
Thankfully, the rumours that rioters had attacked Birmingham Children's Hospital proved to be untrue, although I do know that they could hear the rioting going on outside and were understandably terrified. Some staff were even too frightened to leave the hospital at the end of their shift, so decided to stay overnight in the hospital.
This is a *childrens* hospital we're talking about for goodness sake! Filled with sick children and their families! I know from experience how stressful it is to have a sick child, and have spent many a night myself in that very hospital, so I can only imagine all too well how those poor children and their families felt to hear the rioting going on outside. It really is heartbreaking.
It's the terrorisation of ordinary people like this that truly makes my blood boil. Looting is one thing, but why cause such devastating damage to property? Why terrorise innocent people?
It's mind boggling.
And now three people have been killed in Birmingham.
Where's it all going to end?
Thankfully, the rumours that rioters had attacked Birmingham Children's Hospital proved to be untrue, although I do know that they could hear the rioting going on outside and were understandably terrified. Some staff were even too frightened to leave the hospital at the end of their shift, so decided to stay overnight in the hospital.
This is a *childrens* hospital we're talking about for goodness sake! Filled with sick children and their families! I know from experience how stressful it is to have a sick child, and have spent many a night myself in that very hospital, so I can only imagine all too well how those poor children and their families felt to hear the rioting going on outside. It really is heartbreaking.
It's the terrorisation of ordinary people like this that truly makes my blood boil. Looting is one thing, but why cause such devastating damage to property? Why terrorise innocent people?
It's mind boggling.
And now three people have been killed in Birmingham.
Where's it all going to end?
