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| Posted On: | 04-Mar-2005 |
| From: | Sven Zoerner [s.a.z.....de] |
| Subject: | Re: [roatan] Crime |
I feel somehow that since nine eleven this is scratching on the soul of many US-Americans. I can understand it somehow. The United States have been an "island of security" at least regarding outside attaks ever since. Now with nine eleven the unhurtable giant has become vulnerable at least in his mind. Actually nine eleven was an undiscribable cruelty. But on the other hand: terrorism was already arround. It was there long time before nine eleven. Maybe it didnīt hurt the United States that much before that date. But other countries have had to live with suh problems since a long time. Have a look at Spain and the basque region (ETA), north island, the german RAF Problem from late 1960īs to late 1980īs, Palestina/Israel, and much much more. In fact terrorism was a risk at any time for uninvolved people anywhere for a long time already. And in my opinion there is no prevention against that despite awarness and conflict deescalation and conflict solution. Every security network has holes which are big enough fanatic and prepared terrorists. When US-President George Bush was in my home town Mainz, Germany. The whole city stood still. No traffic, no workers in Mainz Downtown for an whole day. Even the economy of the wider Rhein-Main Area did work as it would be a bank holiday. Mainz was a high security area with more than 10.000 german policmen and about 1000 FBI and CIA security specialist arround. the highways, the river Rhine, the Trainbridges where closed several hours. Did it help ? For god sake nothing bad happened to George W Bush. Actually i think it was because there was nobody there who really wanted to harm him. Proof ? A small boat from a greanpeace activist crossed the closed rhineriver under the bridge while the presidential limousine crossed the bridge. Police did catch them a few minutes later, but if they would have had terroristic plans and a bomb to bomb the theodor heuss bridge in the moment when Bush crossed the road, nobody would have prevented that. Another thought to this: Do you think the new security guidelines after nine eleven what have helped anything against the nine eleven terrorists ? Actually they donīt. Its a little harder, but far away from impossible to bring a carpet cutter or even a plastic blasting agent into a aeroplane. Finally: Roatan is not a symbol which does mean anything to Al-Qaeda like the World-Trade Center Towers have been. There is no honduran underground group (at least i am aware of none) which is working against US-American or other ideas which could find a sysmbol to destroy in Roatan. So the actual risk of a terroristic attack is low. Of cause itīs not zero. But its never zero. Angst is originally a german word. I fear that the american culture, which has a great number of ideals and ideas which many humans in and outside america share by there free will and which are probably the best possible solution for leaving together on this planet, makes the meaning of "Angst" part of there culture. I especially have fear that "Angst" will destroy the great parts worth to follow suitet(?)/emulated(?) of us-american culture and substitute them by "Angst" and "Angst"-Reactions. Not having Angst is (imho) the base of the pursuit of happiness. So donīt have Angst. But be aware and act appropriate against real risks. But donīt overreact and enclose yourself. This just will be followed by others fearing you and will develop and atmosphere of Angst which makes the risk of bad things a lot higher. Paradise (if there is any) means hard work to let it stay paradise. Even (or even more) on a tropic island. just my two cents. kind regards Sven Zörner R> I whole heartedly agree with you. For the past couple weeks we have had R> people spouting off about the island and am tired of the negativity from the R> "experts" many of which do not even live here. R> There are plenty of things wrong here and there. Tell you one thing, the R> chances of a terrorist attack here are all but none. Talk about living in R> fear. R> Congrats also Phil on being elected to the National Realtors Assoc Board as R> Vice President. R> Larry http://www.roatanet.com To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roatan/ roatan- : | |
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