[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Richard Stallman: Thousands dead, millionsdeprived of civil liberties?

[Richard Sewell <richard@jarkman.co.uk>]

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
richard@jarkman.co.uk	
Phone: +44 (0)1495 762385	Mobile: +44 (0)7973 775743


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