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I'm assuming at this point that all of you know what happened in London. If not, pick up a newspaper or something every now and then.
When I heard about it on the news, they were out on the streets in NYC asking people if they were worried about the subways here because of the attacks in London. It hadn't even crossed my mind - the attacks in London were because of the G8, not a series of attacks to overthrow a world power or something like that. If they weren't because of G8 and no one knew why, then I might be worried. Since 9/11 everyone here has known that the subways were a possible location of terrorist action, but I'm not going to stay sequestered in my apartment because of it. People were saying how they were going to walk to work today, but that doesn't make sense. First of all, an attack anywhere else in the world is obviously going to put NYC at the highest allert possible, and therefore there will be an increase in security, making a terrorist attack a lot more difficult to carry out. Secondly, this attack was not a "we don't like powerful countries so we are going to blow them up" attack, it was specifically targeted because of a specific occurence (G8). I don't know. This all seems like a huuuuuuuge amount of overreaction here - not to what happened, obviously it is a gigantic tragedy, but rather that it would happen here today. It's strange that NYC is freaking out now. When the bombing in Madrid happened, there wasn't a reaction like this.
When I heard about it on the news, they were out on the streets in NYC asking people if they were worried about the subways here because of the attacks in London. It hadn't even crossed my mind - the attacks in London were because of the G8, not a series of attacks to overthrow a world power or something like that. If they weren't because of G8 and no one knew why, then I might be worried. Since 9/11 everyone here has known that the subways were a possible location of terrorist action, but I'm not going to stay sequestered in my apartment because of it. People were saying how they were going to walk to work today, but that doesn't make sense. First of all, an attack anywhere else in the world is obviously going to put NYC at the highest allert possible, and therefore there will be an increase in security, making a terrorist attack a lot more difficult to carry out. Secondly, this attack was not a "we don't like powerful countries so we are going to blow them up" attack, it was specifically targeted because of a specific occurence (G8). I don't know. This all seems like a huuuuuuuge amount of overreaction here - not to what happened, obviously it is a gigantic tragedy, but rather that it would happen here today. It's strange that NYC is freaking out now. When the bombing in Madrid happened, there wasn't a reaction like this.