a harmless doll highlights the insecurity of Americans to a terrorist attack
Boston, Jan. 31. Hundreds of police were crammed into the streets of the American city in search of a "suspect." The individual concerned, no light other than a doll placed in different streets and avenues of the city. This doll all you wanted, as responsible for the marketing campaign was to promote a cartoon show for adults in a couple of months to be released in Netwoork Cartoon Channel, Turner Broadcasting. The campaign certainly has a lot to talk.
Boston, Jan. 31. Hundreds of police were crammed into the streets of the American city in search of a "suspect." The individual concerned, no light other than a doll placed in different streets and avenues of the city. This doll all you wanted, as responsible for the marketing campaign was to promote a cartoon show for adults in a couple of months to be released in Netwoork Cartoon Channel, Turner Broadcasting. The campaign certainly has a lot to talk.
The climate of insecurity that has gripped the U.S. since the 11-S is crucial for explaining this story. Several calls alerted the security forces of a strange doll was "stuck" on the walls and streets of their neighborhoods. The most "fear" gave people was the doll was made up of glowing lights when night came. In addition, the lights were the doll were inserted on a black background, so that scared most people. They quickly called police, who cordoned off major highways traversing the city, cut traffic and deployed by the different places where he was the harmless toy. The police exploded one of the "dolls-pump cases." After initial confusion reassured the population and normalcy gradually returned to the city. Not so in police custody in Boston where the two people responsible for distributing the dolls were being questioned by police. The judge released them and they, out of the station complained of his treatment and did not understand the fear produced an entire population.
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From my point of view, the U.S. has demonstrated the large population suffering from insecurity. Bush tried to remove the general malaise of the people shielding airports, railway stations and major highways. The first few months it worked, but nothing is further from the truth. Right now, anyone can be a terrorist attack in any city, and this will have a strong presence of Americans.
Meanwhile, the president proclaims safer if people feel increasingly threatened. On Wednesday, the fear was palpable in the room, every corner of the city. For the organizers of the campaign chaos was unjustified but the reality of the 300 million people inhabit the United States seems very different. In addition, before the rest of the world the image of this fact will have produced different opinions, but everyone will ask the same question. Is this the safest country in the world?
In theory, yes, but in practice I think it has much room for improvement. The most relevant is the expense that generated the war in Iraq. According to The New York Times , the U.S. has spent about 200,000 million dollars annually since the conflict began. If they have almost 5 years in Iraq, the figure worth $ 1.2 billion . A lot, as analysts said the cost of war would not reach 50,000 billion. The question I ask is simple: What the U.S. could have done with all that money?
Here are some examples I have gathered from the American newspaper: 100,000 million to every American without health coverage; 35,000 million for cancer research worldwide, and also 600 million dollars to vaccinate all the world's children against pertussis pertussis, tetanus and tuberculosis.
The panic that the people of Boston were given plenty to think about the U.S. ability to a new wave of terrorist attacks. It has become abundantly clear that no country remains safe from terrorist attacks, not even the country " the world safer."
by Dani.
free opinion: U.S. is safer than before the 11-S?
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