Today Her Majesty the Queen will join the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair at St Paul's Cathedral for a national memorial service, to remember the 52 victims of the the terrorist attacks in London in July, known as 7/7 ; while in America, Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will visit Ground Zero in New York. Their Royal Highnesses will then move on to inaugurate a new memorial garden for the 67 British victims of the attack on the morning of 9 September 2001.
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The main objective of any terrorist is to effect change on the society that is attacked, by causing death and destruction with maximum publicity. If authorities respond by making changes that reduce freedoms, victory is as a result, handed to the terrorists.
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British Police remain (almost uniquely) routinely unarmed. Every time we see armed police officers on the streets of Britain, that is a significant victory to terrorism.
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Brazilian, Jean Charles de Menezes, shot dead in London by an 'elite' anti-terrorist British police squad was very much a victim of the terrorist atrocities of July this year, as indeed is our whole way of life if the issue of the incident isn't properly addressed by the British authorities.
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Today our thoughts are not only with all the victims of modern terrorism and their families, but also with those that control our freedoms.
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