True story: When I was 14 I went to Spain for the 6 week school summer holidays. On my own for the first 3 weeks, then my folks drove up with my best friend for the last 3 weeks. My bff gets sea sick on a swing so she wisely made sure she had travel tablets for the overnight ferry crossing, however she was still sick a couple of times towards the end of the crossing. Flash forward to 3 weeks later when it's time for us all to go home my bff doesn't take her tablet, because it didn't work right?... Wrong!
From the second the engines started on that ferry to a good few hours after we got home she was sick as a dog almost non stop. The tablets had worked they were just unable to stop it completely.
My point: Another horrendous act has been committed in Barcelona. These subhuman beings have evolved from making bombs (which need instructions and ingredients, which are traceable) to stealing/hiring/using their own vehicle (something that is done everyday all over the world by all manner of people). Tiny little well placed acts of lunacy that are hugely effective in creating dissent and fear among decent human beings.
But I keep seeing these comments on social media - "the government's must do something" - What is this "something" of which you speak? And I know there's going to be some small minded muppet out there who'll spew the usual crap they gobbled up from some newspaper named after a planetary body about refugees blah blah. But honestly...something?
How much of an ego must you have to assume that you know exactly what the government and it's agencies are or are not doing? Do you honestly think that organisations around the world see these acts of terror on their turf and just shrug and say "Meh, could have been worse, anyone for tennis?"
I have no idea, but I'm willing to bet there are several dozen, if not more, men and women undercover right now. People who've given up their every day lives to risk their lives on the ground to help prevent these tragedies. Unsung hero's we will never hear about because if they tell us, they tell them.
And, we will never know of all the tragedies that have been prevented because of them, but I'll bet there have been quite a number of them as well!!