It is very worrying that the media and politicians are talking about: "a
declaration of war" when no one knows who has carried out these attacks. It
will be interesting to see how America deals with the situation if the
perpetrators turn out to be Americans as happened in the Oklahoma incident.
Rob
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From: Paul Broome [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 September 2001 10:59
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: USA
> Maybe such honesty will get me into trouble - but that's how I
>felt, and I can't change that.
Being what one believes as being honest often does David.
It is always a sad day when human life is lost - at the end of they
day these were all people and they all meant something to other
people - husbands, wives, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, etc. No
matter how much the moral outrage felt, and, the retribution this
will lead to (as it surely will), there are many wider issues here
that will need to be addressed, and that as usual, will be glossed
over.
The US yesterday got a taste of what it has dealt out for years. And
as with Yugoslavia or Iraq, it is the people that have paid the price
for their state leaders actions. As David and Simon mention, the
'Third World' (I hate that term) has indeed come to the US - or New
York at any rate. The nation-state that had done more than any other
to promote cultural hegemony and global economic apartheid has now
seen its people murdered wholescale by the actions born of decisions
made in distant countries. People in the vicinity of the attacks (and
probably further afield) will now know what it is like to have social
turmoil and to feel the powerlessness to confront a situation dealt
out by others.
As we all come to terms with the still unfolding drama of yesterday,
we should all be concerned for what is yet to come when the military
act out the US state reprisals. These, I have no doubt, will be
far-ranging and wide. How far will the civil liberties of ordinary
people be curtailed in the name of 'national security', and, how far
will this act of terrorism be used to act carte blanch against any
form of anti-state/corporatist/globalist dissent?
Paul.
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Paul Broome
Department of Geography
Royal Holloway
University of London
Egham, Surrey, TW20 OEX, UK
Tel: +44 (0)178 444 3574
Fax: +44 (0)178 447 2386
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