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12/26/2016, 08:05:16
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I praised the calm stoicism of the German shoppers, who were back to their Christmas markets, undeterred by the terrorist threat. 

They're just shoppers. Not security people or government officials. All they could do was to shop or not to shop. They chose to shop.

But you go on to conflate this stoicism with what you regard as in insufficient reaction from the German government, as if Germans were a homogeneous mass all with the same responses and responsibilities. It's how you talk about Muslims too for the most part, not really bothering to differentiate the various sects, or bothering about the difference between fundamentalist crazies and your regular fellow who happens to be Muslim.

Then on top of that, you condemn the actions of the security people, when obviously you don't have any more inside knowledge about their operations than I do. No doubt the perpetrators' image was circulated throughout Europe, which is how the Italian cops got him. Perhaps the German security people were afraid of triggering reprisals against anyone who looked like him. I saw two images of him, and they hardly looked like the same person, so it would have been easy to make a mistake.

You hear something about the German response, and use it to colour your judgement of the inadequacy of the government and the security services. And from the little you know about how the security services have acted, you draw all kinds of conclusions about how they are hindered in their actions by PC sensitivities.

You think you know far more than you actually do. You make an awful lot up.






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