[Nettime-bold] one more thing

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

  "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing" -  Edmund Burke

The airplanes that terrorists used to destroy the WTC and ruin 
Pentagon were large passenger jets. There were 4-5 hijackers on 
each plane and there was more than 50 passengers and crew 
members on each plane. The hijackers were armed with nothing 
more than knives - exacto-knives, box-cutters to be exact. It 
sounds improbable that the passengers and the crew could not 
overwhelm the hijackers with the ratio of 10:1 in their advantage.

That does however fit into my speculation that Americans learned 
to depend on the rule of law too much. They chose to be less free 
in the name of safety. The risk mitigating rules are preferred to the 
celebrated American personal liberty. Courage is suspicious and 
discouraged, pardon the pun. Common sense is taught to be 
secondary to the regulatory law. And everybody expects the 
authorities to step in. And when they can't, as this was the case, 
then there is a tragedy. But the real tragedy is that many 
Americans accepted to trade off their freedom for security and that 
the events of 9/11 will, perhaps, point American society even more 
in that direction.

ivo

>>A Nationalist is a Globalist who's city has been bombed.<<
(that applies on all cities - Sarajevo, Belgrade, Bhagdad or New 
York)


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