Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/03

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Subject: [Leica] What would you do if this happened to you?
From: sdp35 at cwazy.co.uk (sdp35)
Date: Sat Apr 3 18:22:53 2004
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On Apr 3, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Jim Laurel wrote:

> All the security in the world can't protect us from determined 
> terrorists.   I have been through security at Ben Gurion a few times, 
> and yes, the Israelis are better at this than we are.  But there are 
> simply too many ways to wreak havoc and it's impossible to cover all 
> the bases.  The new security procedures don't make me feel on whit 
> safer.
>
> We have to ask ourselves how we are going to protect ourselves from 
> terrorism.  Do we really keep ourselves safer by eroding our own 
> freedoms and investigating everybody's private lives?

Sure, when it gives the reactionaries an excuse to nibble away at said 
freedoms while it keeps anybody from having to answer the really hard 
questions....

> Or does it make more sense to look at the real causes of terrorism and 
> how government policy is contributing to those causes?

Like this one.


In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] What would you do if this happened to you?)