Stomping on an Anthill

Well, the BBC World News is taking about stock prices of travel and tourism companies going down. Goess that means there's no more news about this worth reporting as of now.

It's funny how it's becoming clear that a simple attack on the underground system is more effective at engendering fear than if they had tried to attack the actual G8 summit. Attacking the leaders makes people want to rally around and support their leader, because he is a symbol. If someone asassinated George W. Bush, despite everything else, he would be seen as a hero by most Americans. But an attack on people hits much closer to home, when you think 'why is the government carrying out actions that are resulting in me and my loved ones being put in danger when we're simply going about our lives?'

It would have been a bigger 'gesture' to have attacked the G8 summit, but it's more effective, if your aim is to create fear, to plant the idea in people's minds that they are no longer safe. And what do their leaders do? They continue on with the conference where they discuss how to carve up the rest of the world and divide the spoils, while the people absorb the blowback.