The recent news about the foiled terrorist plot in the UK has left me enraged, frustrated and desperate. Not because of the actual facts - kudos to Scotland Yard for stopping this particular batch of would-be martyrs - but because of the incredible amounts of fear, uncertainty and doubt the media and authorities are creating. Instead of rejoicing that deaths have been prevented, what is happening is exactly what the terrorists wanted. People are afraid, international air traffic is in chaos, and all over the world headlines are filled with it.

We are handing victory to these terrorists. We are doing their work for them. They don’t need to succeed in blowing stuff up anymore, they just have to get caught and we’re doing the rest.

Especially in light of the paper I linked to in my previous entry, what is happening now is enough to boil my blood. Can’t the media see what they are doing? Don’t the authorities realize that by imposing these ridiculous ’security’ measures they’re creating the same chaos that the terrorists wanted to create?!

We should all calm the fuck down.