fickle: (seto: pissing me off)
Fickle ([personal profile] fickle) wrote2007-02-09 08:49 pm

Wiesel attack.

Some days, I really, really hate people.

Elie Wiesel, for those of you who don't know, wrote a very famous book called Night about his experiences of the Nazi death camps. It's an incredibly moving and emotionally honest book. I grew up in Austria, I grew up knowing of the concentration camps and death camps and the atrocities committed, but absolutely nothing brought it home like the way that book did.

It horrifies me to think that even now, so many years after the Holocaust and probably when Wiesel thought he was safe, someone would target him for anti-Semitic reasons. Hasn't he suffered enough already? Attacking anyone based on such a stupid reason is awful but to go after someone that's had to live through an experience like that is the kind of thing that makes me want to scream -- there should be a level of pain that if you endure, you will not have to suffer more.

Argh. Breathing is ridiculously difficult when I'm this outraged.

[identity profile] ryuutchi.livejournal.com 2007-02-10 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
... It happened in my city. MY CITY. Oh. RAGE. You fucking cowardly-ass bastards I AUGH. Hurt. >.

[identity profile] fickle-goddess.livejournal.com 2007-02-11 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. You probably have a good reason to take this personally. >_

[identity profile] daemonsadvocate.livejournal.com 2007-02-10 10:06 am (UTC)(link)
People suck *hugs*.

[identity profile] harmonybunny114.livejournal.com 2007-02-10 10:28 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't sure whether it's for anti-Semitic reasons (you always get random assholes claiming oh-so-proudly that they were responsible even when they weren't) - he's been an active figure working towards peace for a long time now, and as a prominent figure could have any number of idiots forming grudges against him.

That being said, What the fucking fucking fuck?? *grrhissspit*