> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Verzonden: maandag 8 april 2002 17:42 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Onderwerp: Re: Trouble in Europe
> > How are the European governments "refusing to accept responsibility > > for protecting citizens"? > > By the way they react to the violence. A reasonable verbal reaction is > "this type of violence is totally unacceptable, it has no place in > France, we will do everything in our power to prosecute those that > perpetrate it." Which is exactly what will happen. Arson is still a crime, and will therefore be investigated. When the perpetrators are caught they will be tried and convicted. > A reasonable police reaction would be to both start a manhunt for the > perpetrators and police protection for all synagogue. And how exactly are we going to pay for that protection? Saying we should give permanent police protection to all synagogues is easy, but one must also keep an eye on the costs. It is simply impossible to give every synagogue 24/7 police protection. Synagogues are already included in regular police patrols (just like mosques), but no government is going to be able to assign police officers to all synagogues around the clock. Even if it *were* possible, it would only lead to perpetrators find other Jewish targets, from Jewish shops to individual homes. Are we supposed to assign a police officer 24/7 to each and everyone of them? > An analogy is if a government, after a series of rapes in the > community, reacted by saying: > > 1) There was no way for the government to prevent rape > 2) men and women should stop being angry with each other. Well, like it or not, it *is* impossible for any government to prevent rape (unless they assign a police officer 24/7 to every individual woman, which is simply impossible). The best they can do is hunt down the rapist(s) and send him/them to prison. > Another example is the fact that the anti-Semitic comments made by the > French ambassador to Britain had no repercussions on his career. A > similar public racist comment by an American in government would > have ended his career. The lack of repercussions sends the message > that anti-Semitism is acceptable. It might be possible that the French government did not consider his statement to be anti-Semitic, but since I do not have the statement handy I cannot comment on that. Can you post the comment? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
