I signed because I can't quite imagine what else I could do. Join hands with people who get on a tube platform and then a train in a crowd of other people with the fixed intention of blowing them all to pieces? Who know that some of the people will die slowly in agony and terror and suffocation? Join hands with a fascist regressive misogynist homophobic religious tyranny? No, I think not. No 'grievance,' no 'injustice,' no identity, no community, no rage, no frustration, no 'devout faith,' no respect for the Other - nothing makes the actions of July 7 anything other than a nightmare from which we all need to awake.
Ophelia Benson
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