| Richard Sewell on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:35:08 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Richard Stallman: Thousands dead, millionsdeprived of civil liberties? |
At 08:51 18/09/01 -0700, Steve Cisler wrote: >I would be interested to hear opinions from nettimers who are not >Americans about how they perceive our level of security was up until >September 11. When you were in the states did you feel things were >lax, oppressive, or about the same as your home country? From the point of view of a UK resident, it seems about the same. I can carry a penknife on a plane, my passport gets scrutinised when I arrive, and so on. But I'm not sure that security is really the issue here, in that this attack was carried out in a way which tighter security would have great trouble preventing. The physical ingredients - trained pilots, sharp objects - are not so rare or so inherently warlike as to be controllable. - Richard Sewell [email protected] Phone: +44 (0)1495 762385 Mobile: +44 (0)7973 775743 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold