Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S...
by matt4077 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:40PM
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The trend towards a "security theatre" and all that does indeed seem to be much stronger. Even where security measures in Europe were increased (i. e. ban on liquids), it was more on the behest of the Americans than intrinsically motivated.
I see a few possible causes:
– 9/11 was a much bigger attack than anything that happened on European soil
– there is a more influential lobby for militarisation/criminalisation in the US
– Americans are more fearful
– America is more democratic. As such, the unfounded fears of parts of the population (on both sides of the Atlantic) are less likely to be buffered by the more rational thinking of experts
and, my favourite:
– Americans love excitement and violence & it is amplified by the media. Nothing better than a bomb scare on FOX.
I see a few possible causes:
– 9/11 was a much bigger attack than anything that happened on European soil
– there is a more influential lobby for militarisation/criminalisation in the US
– Americans are more fearful
– America is more democratic. As such, the unfounded fears of parts of the population (on both sides of the Atlantic) are less likely to be buffered by the more rational thinking of experts
and, my favourite:
– Americans love excitement and violence & it is amplified by the media. Nothing better than a bomb scare on FOX.