Northwest passengers certainly HAD a scare, a BIG one when a Nigerian national, a young man of 23, attempted to set off some kind of explosive device held between his legs (!!) on a flight from The Netherlands to Detroit, Michigan. What kind of dedication to a cause, what kind of depression, what kind of sickness would allow any person to attempt such a thing? In short, what was he thinking? Only 23 and fully aware (I suppose) that he was at least killing himself and every man, woman and child on board that aircraft. A monster? No...a mad killing machine. It would take much rehearsal, much training, much forethought and insight to do such a thing...and it takes something else...desperation. He is (I presume) guilty of the attempted murder of 288 others and his own attempted suicide. What kind of humanity did this young man possess? Could you do as he did? If so, may I suggest a rapid trip to the nearest shrink to have your head examined. A Prozac sir or madam, a priest, a good steak dinner with a loved one...like your mother ( oh no, not THAT!), a meeting with a certifiably SANE human. What's it LIKE to be so desperate? To lack that amount of humanity? I can't imagine it, yet many are and many live with it day after day. Maybe it's a wonder there aren't MORE of this incidents, there are MANY you know, it shouldn't be a surprise. Bombings occur all over this world, damn Mr. Nobel anyway ( http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Alfred_Nobel.htm ).
This 23 year old man HAD his whole life in front of him, maybe it was only going to be an average to poor life but it was one, and if he lived to an average (In Nigeria) age of 47...he was half way there. Time for a wife, a child or two or three, a house, a farm, a goat or 4...or become a successful businessman, doctor, engineer or bus driver...sure, why not (the list is long I fear) but this person-of-interest chose to end his life at 23 in the belly of an airplane along with everyone else on board. Pretty bleak. Pretty bleak. He'll have a trial the outcome of which will be a life sentence in some god-forbidden hell hole somewhere in the US, a Federal Penitentiary I suspect. Deserves it? Oh yes, he deserves it if anyone does. Lonely places those prisons, 3 walls and iron doors clanking shut, not for me brothers and sisters, not for me or YOU, for him though, for him. In later days we'll learn of his life, his struggles, his family, his friends and his conflicts and his choices. He made them, he'll get to live with them too now that he survived his own bombing attempt. How can this be prevented when such desperation, such pervasive evil exists in this world of ours? It won't be the last, how could it be?
What can we do to cause these folks that would do these heinous acts to reconsider (at least) and turn away from violence in the search of political change. That's what it's all about isn't it? Frustration that the other team is in charge and we (the perps) want to be the boss instead...and there is no other way than this? No other way? Education, hard-work, moving to where Life is better for us...none of this is enough? I guess not for this 23 year old Nigerian fellow, his life and its enumerable possibilites are over.
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