Pierce writes: "Something awful has happened in Paris. Out of it will be
born something awful in the collective mind and the collective heart and the
collective soul."
Police patrol near the Eiffel Tower the day after a series of deadly attacks
in Paris. (photo: Reuters)
France's Retribution Will Be Swift and Harsh, as Will the Inevitable
Reaction, and as Will the Retribution for the Reaction.
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
14 November 15
Air travel used to bestow a kind of immunity. Wheels up into the blackening
sunset, and the world couldn't touch you. The office couldn't call. Nobody
could find you. It was a three-hour recess from the news and cares and pain
of the world. Of course, this odd place of solace has gone the way of free
baggage check-in and actual food in coach. The technology has given the
world a longer, deeper reach. So, if you choose, you can sit on a plane over
a dark, anonymous planet and get the news of an impeccably organized murder
half a world away.
French radio reporter Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when
gunmen entered. Two men dressed in black started shooting what he described
as AK-47s, and after wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot
them again, execution-style, he said. The two men didn't wear masks and
didn't say anything. The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd
inside the small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who
escaped. He said he saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor. The hostage
situation at the Bataclan continued early Saturday. One of the explosions at
the Stade de France outside Paris appears to be a suicide bombing, a Western
intelligence source receiving direct intelligence from the scene told CNN's
Deb Feyerick. A dismembered body, consistent with the aftermath of an
explosion from that type of device, was found at the scene, the source said.
There is no question that it will get worse as they move toward dawn in
Paris. There is no question that it will get worse as the days turn into
months and the months into years. Barbarians have laid siege to an entire
European city for one of the first times since Rome fell. The body count
will climb. The retribution will be swift and harsh, as will the inevitable
reaction, and as will the retribution for the reaction. And the events of
the day will be fed into the armored, blind triviality of the ongoing
American election, and into the utterly corrupted American political system,
and into the carefully cultivated timidity and faithlessness that all of
these things have combined to make out of the American democracy over the
past 15 years. Something awful has happened in Paris. Out of it will be born
something awful in the collective mind and the collective heart and the
collective soul. I wish I weren't so sure of this, but the planet looks
awfully black from up here, and it doesn't look any different if you close
your eyes.
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France's Retribution Will Be Swift and Harsh, as Will the Inevitable
Reaction, and as Will the Retribution for the Reaction.
By Charles Pierce, Esquire
14 November 15
ir travel used to bestow a kind of immunity. Wheels up into the blackening
sunset, and the world couldn't touch you. The office couldn't call. Nobody
could find you. It was a three-hour recess from the news and cares and pain
of the world. Of course, this odd place of solace has gone the way of free
baggage check-in and actual food in coach. The technology has given the
world a longer, deeper reach. So, if you choose, you can sit on a plane over
a dark, anonymous planet and get the news of an impeccably organized murder
half a world away.
French radio reporter Julien Pearce was inside the Bataclan theater when
gunmen entered. Two men dressed in black started shooting what he described
as AK-47s, and after wounded people fell to the floor, the two gunmen shot
them again, execution-style, he said. The two men didn't wear masks and
didn't say anything. The gunfire lasted 10 to 15 minutes, sending the crowd
inside the small concert hall into a screaming panic, said Pearce, who
escaped. He said he saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor. The hostage
situation at the Bataclan continued early Saturday. One of the explosions at
the Stade de France outside Paris appears to be a suicide bombing, a Western
intelligence source receiving direct intelligence from the scene told CNN's
Deb Feyerick. A dismembered body, consistent with the aftermath of an
explosion from that type of device, was found at the scene, the source said.
There is no question that it will get worse as they move toward dawn in
Paris. There is no question that it will get worse as the days turn into
months and the months into years. Barbarians have laid siege to an entire
European city for one of the first times since Rome fell. The body count
will climb. The retribution will be swift and harsh, as will the inevitable
reaction, and as will the retribution for the reaction. And the events of
the day will be fed into the armored, blind triviality of the ongoing
American election, and into the utterly corrupted American political system,
and into the carefully cultivated timidity and faithlessness that all of
these things have combined to make out of the American democracy over the
past 15 years. Something awful has happened in Paris. Out of it will be born
something awful in the collective mind and the collective heart and the
collective soul. I wish I weren't so sure of this, but the planet looks
awfully black from up here, and it doesn't look any different if you close
your eyes.
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