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Originally posted by jonasha
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Benjamin Cazenoves posted an update on Facebook from inside the theater: “Alive. Just some cuts. Carnage. Bodies everywhere.”
Mr. Pearce told CNN that he saw two of the men enter and begin to fire randomly. He said the gunmen wore black and said nothing. They simply fired indiscriminately into the crowd. Mr. Pearce said that when he walked out into the street, he saw 25 bodies on the ground.
“It lasted for 10 minutes, 10 minutes, 10 horrific minutes when everybody was on the floor covering their heads and we heard so many gunshots, and the terrorists were very calm, very determined, and they reloaded three or four times their weapons,” Mr. Pearce said.
At around 10 p.m. the gunmen began rounding up survivors, holding them as hostages as dozens of police officers massed outside. For more than two hours a tense standoff prevailed, with more and more police arriving at the scene, enlarging the tense perimeter around the music hall in the city’s 11th Arrondissement.
“I saw these two crazy guys arrive — they started firing on everybody,” a witness named Yasmine told BFM television. She heard one of the men shout, “ ‘What you are doing in Syria, you are going to pay for it now.’ ”
Yasmine began to cry as she recounted what she had seen. “I’ve never seen so many dead around me.” She was shot in the foot.
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Omg ![cries](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v232/korn0818/ATRLSmilies/45ab1e3e.gif)
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This is important.
Citizens of first world countries can better insulate themselves from these kinds of attacks by holding their leaders accountable. Major world powers have and continue to play a role in some of the most horrific atrocities around the world, but we don't hear about them so we don't think they exist.
For example, ask yourself why in Rwanda they've embarked on an aggressive campaign to switch the entire education system to English and effectively purge the country of French. What could the French have possible done to warrant the expulsion of the French ambassador from this country?
What else have they done since? What are the Americans (and allies) really up to in the Middle East? What kinds of disturbances have they precipitated in the name of "justice, equality, and liberty"? You may come to find that the use of the "Oh! Freedom!" rhetoric to justify meddling in external affairs parallels with the rhetoric of "Oh! Allah!" that these extremist use to justify their acts of terror.
it's easy to speculate on these problems from one angle, but you'd be surprised to find the reality is people are living things kinds of tragedies everyday at the hands of our corrupt governments.
#staywoke