Trucks are the latest threat to the world. They are
mowing down people. There seems to be something wrong here. Even our liberal
media, who btw are the last word where truth is concerned, are worried:-
And if our liberal friends are worried, that means there
is really a problem. Something is wrong with trucks in Western Europe.
Vehicular terrorism. That’s what the world’s latest
problem is.
In the latest incident of vehicular
terrorism on Apr 7th, a stolen beer truck rammed into a crowd of
people in a popular shopping district in Stockholm and then rammed it into a
department store, killing four people and injuring 15 others .“Sweden has been
attacked,” Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said “This indicates that it is an act
of terror.” (Quite a bright conclusion)
How can a nice liberal beer carrying truck mow
down people with such impunity? Whats disturbing these trucks? Why can’t we
peer into their minds, err, engines to find out what ails them?
It all started when an angry truck
killed 84 people in Nice, France during the 14th July
celebrations. Maybe it was a sore truck that found fireworks
threatening. Maybe it found French patriotism threatening. Maybe it was a
poor Renault truck which felt marginalized by Mercedes and Scania trucks.
Now let’s get one thing clear before
we investigate the root cause:-
Not all trucks are bad. Not all of
them kill people. Most of them just deliver cargo peacefully. While its true
that they honk a lot and terrorize car and bike drivers, only a very few end up
crushing cars and bikes. Lets not demonize all the trucks because of the bad
deeds of a few trucks. And most importantly, trucks have no religion.
We cant look at all the trucks in the
world with hate and suspicion just because three of them wrecked havoc in
Germany, France and Sweden. The poor things are already traumatized.
Why don’t we go ahead and address the
real concerns of the trucks? I mean, have you thought of the alienation they
feel when they see people preferring buses and cars and SUVs to them? There
might be something bad in the diesel or spare parts that are replaced in them
which might be causing such problem. We must not blame trucks for these
murders, I mean, bad servicing by the privileged white male mechanics might
have misguided them.
The reason here is economic and
psychological (and not religious, as noted earlier, because trucks have no
religion). Maybe these trucks need better jobs that will dissuade from ramming
into crowds. Maybe one day a week should be reserved for people staying indoors
and no cars or bikes on the streets so that the trucks can have their fill of
speeding.
Marginalizing these religion-less
trucks and limiting their economic opportunities have horrible consequences as
we saw in Nice.
We must remember that trucks have the
foremost rights on the world’s diesel and grease.
We must show trucks respect and vacate
all good parking lots to them. All trucks, no matter where they come from,
deserve their own garages where they can go to pray. Don’t call their garages
as ghettos.Trucks need space you see. You have no right to demand that they mix
with buses and cars.
Long live vehicular harmony.
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