Stockholm Syndrome Goes Paris: Violent Bus Ride – The Victim Speaks
After the tremendous outpouring of comments and furious reactions relevant to the attack in the Parisian night bus (known as the "Noctilien"), readers will find the following testimony by the victim himself to be either politically correct to a shocking degree, or a refreshingly honest statement from a 19-year-old student who does not want to make a mountain out of a molehill. At any rate, those were the two main reactions of Le Figaro's readers.
Predators on the Bus, Policeman “Harms Image” of Bus Company
A six-minute video from a surveillance camera, showing an attack on a young white man in a Parisian bus, during the night of December 6-7, 2008, has aroused a tsunami of reactions throughout the French-language Internet. At François Desouche there are almost 2000 comments to the video, not to mention other sites.
Duly Noted: The Erogenous Zone of Politics
1. The news resonate with the splash Obama made in Prague. In an effective PR action, the address that announced a bad policy turned out to be successful propaganda. The President has hit on an erogenous zone of politics when he suggested that America desires the total elimination of nuclear weapons. There are two contexts in which this might fit. If the statement reflects policy, a problem emerges.
Total nuclear disarmament is much more difficult to enforce and to control than is the partial reduction of such forces. If such an agreement is enforceable in the case of the known, admitted and major nuclear powers, a new problem attains paramount importance. Once the present’s major players have emptied their arsenals, the rogue cheater’s undetected or out Of PC politeness ignored small stash receives a significance. It is comparable to what the US’ three bombs had in 1945. In case of total de-nuclearization, the cheaters are given a nuclear monopoly. This card would be played out in the pursuit of criminal goals by either using these weapons or by threatening to resort to them.
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