[syndicate] Living with Fear

[christian skina]

As I see it, it's all about make believe and we all contribute to it.
Take heart and pray that NASA gets more funds so we at least will be able to see that boulder which will one day hit the Earth, before it does so.
I also pray spring and summer will ever come to Holland :-)
Greetings
Chris


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ivo Skoric" <ivo at reporters.net>
To: <ivo at reporters.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 6:05 AM
Subject: [syndicate] Living with Fear


> There is a proliferation of an alphabet soup of new security forces in 
> NYC - different uniforms, acronyms, some of them armed, some of 
> them armed with automatic weapons, indeed - Europe had that in 
> seventies - I remember when I was a kid visiting my mom in 
> Germany, on Frankfurt airport there were always security forces 
> with automatic weapons. They were not in the U-Bahn, though.
> 
> Better example yet may be Croatia, when it was splitting from what 
> was then Yugoslavia, because, unlike in Germany, the fear from 
> the threat there penetrated much deeper. Perhaps, because the 
> threat was greater. And with the fear came the surveillance, the 
> men in uniforms with automatic weapons on the streets, the 
> immense desire for retributive justice. 
> 
> I am really not surprised why the U.S. enjoys support by the post-
> communist bloc in NATO. What I am surprised is why is the threat 
> in the US percieved to be so grave? Iraqi Republican Guard can 
> never do as extensive damage to the U.S. territory as Yugoslav 
> Army could to Croatia. I doubt they would ever reach farther than 
> Oman. 
> 
> But then, U.S. citizens are pathologically obssessed with safety, 
> and they got hit really hard (kind of someone slugs you with a 
> baseball bat right over your nose when you are running), so they 
> are stunned, anesthetized, and as far as elected representatives 
> go, complacent. 
> 
> There should be more snow days, though, and that's the good 
> news. Good news, because it is paradise for snowboarding here in 
> Vermont, and, also, because snow seems to paralyze the 
> government. So, they won't be able to decide to go to war when it's 
> snowing heavily. And the North-East averages the most snowfall in 
> March. 
> 
> There is something horribly wrong with this war, if so many are 
> already against it, and it did not even start yet. To contemplate 
> the risk of loss of innocent life in Iraq, ostensibly to protect 
> innocent life in the U.S. from an 'unspecified threat'?! 
> 
> And it is completely reasonable to fear that armed men in the 
> streets, justified by the threat of terrorism, may be quickly used 
> one day to surpress a peaceful protest. That has been done in the 
> history of the U.S. 
> 
> The U.S. is getting many new restrictions, familiar to the folks that 
> are hailing from behind the 'iron curtain' - like, for example, the 
> 'curtain' was just raised again on February 14, when state police 
> and immigration agents had set up roadblocks near the 
> Lacolle/Champlain port of entry to Canada on I-87N, to stop 
> Pakistanis from fleeing the U.S. and seeking refuge in Canada.
> 
> The U.S. society is getting more militarized with all the unintended
> consequences for the future generations. Teenage guys in a gym in 
> New York city debate about whether they should travel only by 
> cab, since subways are unsafe. Pre-teenage girls in a gondola at 
> Killington speculate what would happen if the wire that carries 
> gondola had been sabotaged.
> 
> So, let us all pray for a lot of snow to fall in the next couple of 
> months.
> 
> ivo
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