It's all the media.
With all the video cameras, instant feed, mobile phone's etcetera - we just hear about more of it and faster.
The world is safer now than it used to be.
One exampled would be that the IRA used to bomb the hell out of England - and it never used to deter "tourists". Yet one or two now sends the world running.
I just wish every-one would calm down - although the ideal world would be without it - Terrorism is not some new-age/modern epidemic.
Saddam or no Saddam, Bush or no Bush - if you look at history, the world is at relative peace.
I think that terrorism has always been here but now there is more fear and awareness of the matter.
With the world advancing and a disturbing pace, weapons and ways of mass destruction are bigger and easier to get. With threats polluting the media from terrorists people are more scared by the thought that they are in real danger. The twin tower crashes devastated the world just like the madrid bombings and the London Bombings and now they realised that terrorism is easy. I think as the world advances so does it's awareness and intelligence. Protection in air ports and train stations is more then ever. I'm not sure about the fact that their are less terrorist bombings now then ever but when they happen they are devastating and disgusting.
What happened to people. Is it that they got greedy. Or was it because we got ahead of ourselves.
It's hardly like the IRA drove car bombs into London every other day though, is it? Whilst I accept your point that the media has certainly emphasised these events in recent years, it is fair to say that acts of extremism have certainly been more prevalent.
| SunburnedCactus wrote: |
| It's hardly like the IRA drove car bombs into London every other day though, is it? Whilst I accept your point that the media has certainly emphasised these events in recent years, it is fair to say that acts of extremism have certainly been more prevalent. |
No, there's the same if not less now than ever. It wasn't just the IRA - the PLO would be another example... that and the IRA weren't just bombing London.
As a net whole they were bombing somewhere "every other day".
And then there were hundreds if not thousands of minority groups at the time - just like now.
People did hear about it - but not as quickly or as over-dramatically.
I just don't see why everyone has to be in this panic when things really haven't changed.
After September 11 every bomb anywhere has become hugely news-worthy - believe it or not more-so than it would have before the attack.
Cheers,
Jess Black. | Quote: |
Using time-series procedures, we investigate whether transnational terrorism changed following
9/11 and the subsequent US-led war on terror. Perhaps surprising, little has changed in the
time series of overall incidents and most of its component series. When 9/11 is prejudged as a
break date, we find that logistically complex hostage-taking events have fallen as a proportion of
all events, while logistically simple, but deadly, bombings have increased as a proportion of
deadly incidents. These results hold when we apply the Bai-Perron procedure where structural
breaks are data identified. This procedure locates earlier breaks in the mid-1970s and 1990s.
Reasonable out-of-sample forecasts are possible if structural breaks are incorporated fairly
rapidly into the model. |
SOURCE: After 9/11: Is It All Different Now?
According to this paper whilst the number of hostage situations has decreased, the number of bombings has increased. I haven't read it through entirely but it seems pretty solid.Awareness of Terrorism is a lot better than ignorance. It just means that a lot of people are on the lookout for suspicious activity - this way, more crimes are reported after they happen, and more crimes are prevented before they happen. It's kind of sad that it had to take a huge tragedy to get people to wake up, but sometimes that's all it takes.
| Maxrpg wrote: |
| Awareness of Terrorism is a lot better than ignorance. It just means that a lot of people are on the lookout for suspicious activity - this way, more crimes are reported after they happen, and more crimes are prevented before they happen. It's kind of sad that it had to take a huge tragedy to get people to wake up, but sometimes that's all it takes. |
you're american, aren't you? | Ressurrector wrote: |
| I agree man |
nice to see a sensible post 
well one other way to look at it is both points are right... the media is hyping it up, no doubts about it, although its the same "problem" that has been around for centuries in some form or another. But at the same time, because of all the talk and hype involved, the idea is being spread to more individuals who in turn want to make a name for themselves. ( look at all the copycat wannabe's that fashion thier crimes after other events that have taken place.)
Everyone likes shock value.. sad fact of life...and in the world of news, they make their money off of the crimes... the bigger the story the more they can milk it.
And terrorism has some pretty large teats to milk.....
