<story><title>Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdavid</author><text>What seems interesting to me as a European is that this type of reactions happened mostly in the US. Terror attacks have happened for a long time in Europe (red brigades, IRA, algerian terror cells, etc...), and the reaction has been quite different to say the least. Granted, the amount of damages has been different (nothing near 9/11 has ever happened on European soil), but I don&apos;t think that explains it.&lt;p&gt;This is even more incomprehensible to me because I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europens.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>From 2006, and sadly so; this advice should have been followed back in 2002, and been the reality by 2010.  Schneier is well known, but somehow still isn&apos;t being heard by the right ears...how can we help change that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mechanical_fish</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europeans.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps, but still... it&apos;s complicated. Ask an Irish-American in the 1800s, a black American in 1840 or 1930, or a Japanese-American in 1944:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/19/actor-george-takei-remembers-his-internment/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theworld.org/2010/02/19/actor-george-takei-rememb...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the earliest days of the USA, it has taken a lot of fighting to keep the ideals alive in practice as well as on paper.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bruce Schneier: Refuse to be terrorized</title><url>http://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>cdavid</author><text>What seems interesting to me as a European is that this type of reactions happened mostly in the US. Terror attacks have happened for a long time in Europe (red brigades, IRA, algerian terror cells, etc...), and the reaction has been quite different to say the least. Granted, the amount of damages has been different (nothing near 9/11 has ever happened on European soil), but I don&apos;t think that explains it.&lt;p&gt;This is even more incomprehensible to me because I have always considered American citizens to be more attached to civil liberties and individual freedom than most Europens.</text></item><item><author>makecheck</author><text>From 2006, and sadly so; this advice should have been followed back in 2002, and been the reality by 2010.  Schneier is well known, but somehow still isn&apos;t being heard by the right ears...how can we help change that?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SkyMarshal</author><text>Many of us in the US who &lt;i&gt;are&lt;/i&gt; attached to civil liberties and individual freedom are taking notice.&lt;p&gt;From civil liberties to software patents, maybe Europe isn&apos;t what Rush Limbaugh says it is.  Wonder of wonders.</text></comment>