I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d like to pass on

Re:I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d li... by Mc91 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @05:42PM (#17947924)

> This spring I visited Notre Dame in Paris. I saw four soldiers patroling the street, spread out a few meters apart from each other, one finger close to the triger, barrel pointing to the ground...This may be all security theatre. Or the times are really changing.

I don't think times are changing...thirty years ago I crossed the border in north Ireland, which was heavily militarized and patrolled, and drove past police stations there, which were heavily militarized. Then went to Paris and ran across sandbag covered watchpoints around the US embassy, possibly because of the recent CSPPA attacks. Then we went to the FRG a few weeks after Reagan made a Berlin speech (protested by tens of thousands of people in west Berlin), and the US/FRG/NATO presence even in cities like Nuernberg were ever-present, especially amid tensions between the Warsaw Pact and NATO.

So no, I don't think times are changing.

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Re:I survived the Warsaw ghetto. Here are the lessons I’d li... by int_19h on Sunday September 09, 2018 @09:13PM (#17948723)

Things are changing. They're changing (at least in part) to what you've seen 30 years ago, but that's not a good sign, when you look at what was the norm during those 30 years.

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