Blame it on Les, he started it 
Les seemed to blame a car* for pedestrians' death (sorry, Les, I know you didn't mean it that way).
Which, in turn, reminded me of the similar attempt just a few days ago by the NYT to blame airplanes for 9/11. Which is done in the same spirit as Omar's quote - to minimize, trivialize, obfuscate, and obscure the real perpetrators behind 9/11: not cars, not planes, not "some people," but radical Islamists.
* SUV, the link to the Extreme weather thread
Isn't that interesting?
It's exactly the technique employed by the gun lobby: it's not guns, it's people kill people.
And it's people who should be banned from owning guns; they (guns) serve no purpose but to kill, whereas vehicles of all types, land, sea and air are what our civilization today depends upon: mobility.
Funnily enough, that's exactly what the Brexiteers are trying to achieve: immobilise Parliament; prevent discussion, restrict mobility of the people; obfuscate about the entire lie that was sold to the poor old ignorant (if only of the facts) voting public; misrepresent the European standpoint at every turn by demonising its negotiators in true, Brit red top manner.
In other words, build up as much national hatred and misunderstanding about the other "side" as you can stoke in order to divert from the facts of the case, and cover it in multiple folds of a cloak of confusion until the public screams out for it all to stop! Then, when the public's on its spiritual knees, bully through your original intent. Democracy at its best, no doubt.
And until people are educated enough to think for themselves, it will ever be so.
Everything, it seems, is connected with everything else.
