Leon Kuunders on Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:12:47 +0100 (CET) |
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RE: <nettime> some thoughts from the lowlands about terrorism.. |
And to reflect on this story: isn't it strange that not a single passenger of the train walked up to the two guys to ask them what they were doing? Nobody got in touch ... we accuse others for living in freedom. --Leon. > From: Bjorn Wijers [mailto:mailings@bdisfunctional.net] > Subject: <nettime> some thoughts from the lowlands about terrorism.. > > On the news they said it was a false alarm triggered by > (over-protective) passengers of the international train that > watched two man in djellabas (traditional clothing) going to > and from the lavatory sometimes with their luggage and > sometimes not. Behaviour that might be different than > 'normal' and therefore might be dangerous especially because > the men looked so "Arabic". Or as one of the passengers > supposedly said: > > "They would have been very stupid to be muslim terrorists as > they looked so much like them" > > Apperently other passengers did agree on the terrorist part > and took the behaviour of the two man as a serious threat and > called the police. I always understood that terrorism is > about destabilizing, creating chaos and fear. In that sense > the terrorists have already won in the Netherlands without > using bombs. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net