Re: [ga] what we share

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

"Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" wrote:

> What a terrible tragedy for all -- in human lives lost or harmed; in
> economic impact; but most of all, in the loss of trust.
>
> I learned of the World Trade Center crashes, along with a cab driver who is
> in the U.S. from Egypt for 15 years, and who is very much a U.S. citizen...
> and we both thought, almost simultaneously, of the issues of reaction toward
> peoples from whatever country, or religion, or continent which the attacks
> might have originated from...

Marilyn:

In this case, I think (and hope), that no such reactions, or at least very few,
should occur.  The identified villain is Osama Bin Laden, and no peoples
that I know of get automatically associated with him. That may be a wrong
conclusion (to blame him), as was the first conclusion with respect to
Oklahoma City, but this one is more likely to be right.  Those who will have
worries will be residents of Kabul; a Libya-like attack by the U.S. on
Afghanistan can confidently be predicted.  (Iran's condemnation of the
attack may well be a smoke screen, but after its own little war, Russia
would certainly not object!)

> I hope that all of us can, while we mourn this situation, and the damage to
> individuals, also be ambassadors of concern that in any pursuit of the
> perpetrators, that we don't accidentally create undue mistrust toward each
> other, or any peoples.

We can help do that here on these pages, methinks.  The first thing to
realize is that regardless of their ethnic origins, ordinary lay people,
especially in the Middle East, are not personally responsible for the
things that the country of their origin does.  Those who still live there
could be "blamed" in principle, if one assumed that even being there
they had anything to say about the actions of their governments, but
people who have lived in the U. S. for years do not automatically
become suspected as conspirators, or even supporters.  During
WWII there was substantial reason to suspect people because
there was an active Fifth Column at work, but that is certainly not
the case today -- it does not take continent-wide networks of
spies to do what was done today, but only a couple dozen people
or so.

> Like others on this  list,  I am sad, and regretful, and perhaps even
> frightened at what happens next.  But, like others, also hopeful that
> understanding can grow out of this terrible tragedy and that we will all, as
> world citizens, not punish innocent people in the search for those who did
> this.

We must indeed rise above any such temptation -- NO "Red Monkeys"
scrawled on bridge foundations, as I saw around Portland during the Iran
capture of Americans under Carter.

Bill Lovell


>
> Marilyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Dierker [mailto:eric@hi-tek.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 10:45 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] Condolances
>
> Dear All,
>
> I wish to extend my sympathy and prayers to all who will suffer from the
> horrible tragedy which befell New York this morning.
>
> May we all try to do our part to use this tool, the Internet, to move
> the world toward a higher understanding of each other and rid us of such
> hatred.
>
> Sincerely,
> Eric
>
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(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
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Part I:
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http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
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