This content was originally posted by: sareg
I think we have a fundamental problem with how we deal with this, we meaning the common citizenery
Partly Agree, it salone cann't be blamed on common citizenery no matter what steps are taken such anti social acts will be commited, it more to do unsatisfaction within groups who vend to such ways for acheiving thier goals. Sad but true.
Here are two situations
Right after the first Bomb Blasts in Mumbai, the city was almost back to normal the very next day, everyone applauded how quickly the common man reacted in a positive fashion.
What do you expect? everyone mourns and sit back in a developing nation, who will feed low/middle classes who don't work the next day?
The benefit was the terrorists did not get the satisfaction of disrupting our lifesytle.
True, isn't that good. Closing the whole country for 30 days and show how badly this act has affected all, to satisfy ego's of terrorist and encourage them for new 60 days shut down attempt, so finally they will acheive the goal. I think its a more of an discouragement.
NOTE : Taking a break.. as I suspect am misunderstanding the point here. Not sure what point you trying to bringout, that common man lost focus on seriously addressing this problem or there was divertion by media.
The police really took the matter to heart and got the case solved within a month. And if the suspects had gone absconding, it became a responsibility of the rest of the Country's and the central govt to catch these guys, which took about 14 years, and when people started getting convicted the majority of the population werent interested. In general only those businesses affected and the people who died had to pay the price, so rest of the public didnt care about it seriously enough. following that many terrorist attacks happened, the public got more and more desensitized everytime the same routine got repeated, and the people started rationalizing this, "oh this happened b'cos ...", "we shouldnt be blaming ....". It has gotten so bad these days, major newspapers have editorials to the effect that question why all of the suspects of the same religion and are we targetting a community here, etc
Take the second scenario
Right after 9/11, for about a week everything was closed in the financial capital, billions of dollars were lost, so Govt had to take action and forceful action against those. People from our subcontinent were shocked given how we deal with it. "How can you go to war over just 2000+ dead" was the underlying thought. But most of their citizens will still vote to bomb a nation. Many of our South Asian brethren wonder how could they re-elect Bush. Many a people in America realize this is their creation, still will vote unequivocally to bomb Afghanistan to oblivion
There is also a difference in attitude
Walk by the same neighbourhood that got bombed in Hyderabad in a week's time and you will see people throwing away empty boxes by the roadside and no-one giving a sh*t .
Howz will attitude of building a memorial tomb at that neighbourhood help in the cause of curbing such acts. Fail to understand again, sorry.
7 years after 9/11 I was walking out of train station, someone had forgotten a toy box in the elevator and the elevator was cordoned off, and this was about 1300 miles away from the site of 9/11
If the common man cared in India, they would elect policians who care, if they are serious about a topic, politicians will dare not ignore it. This one I agree, still I don't see such acts being extinct from the face of the world. The common man has no self respect, why would the politician give it to them? 😕 isn't that a job done after electing the right politicians, if there are any😉 and forcing them to do the job, if at all they can😕 BTW - my POV is just focused on can be remove terrorism, in this post.
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