TRAVEL WARNING JUST ISSUED BY THE US STATE DEPT>

[jtaylo69]

Well, we just had a Bus Bombing here in southern China. Several Chinese, & 3 americans were injured, 1 american Seriously. I was on the plane comming back from GUZ to LAX & there was a lady who was one of the victoms, and damn, she looked like she had gone through some serious hell.

 

She said that her & her husband were sitting in the back of the Bus, and the next thing she remembered was they were pulling her out from under some of the twisted metal & seeing husband laying out side on the pavement. He's doing ok, but damn. China!!!

 

Why do I have this sneeky feeling that all of the major world powers are being played against each other as a way to try & attemt the other to try & fight another.?

 

Do you still think china is a safer place for Americans? I don't.

 

http://www.internet-haganah.us/hmedia/09au...fuzhou-08aug05/

 

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20050809_2.htm

 

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/111050.php

 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK163742.htm

 

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=17203

[jim_julian]

Do you still think china is a safer place for Americans? I don't.

145967[/snapback]

I do think that China is a safer place for Americans, particularly in the context of the DoS Travel Warning that started this thread. You will recall:

 

The Department of State remains concerned about the continued threat of terrorist attacks, demonstrations and other violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests overseas.

 

Clearly the tragic incident you report was not targeted against US citizens or interests.

 

I've been on business all week in the UK. I was travelling by train to visit several companies and was surprised to find British police armed with automatic weapons in small rural railroad stations in Devon and Wales. For those of you not familiar with the UK, this is really the boondocks. The attacks in the UK are inexorably tied to US interests and are the kind of thing the travel warning was pointed at.

 

As others have said in this thread there is a high degree of governmental control in China. Even though there may be many aspects of this control that a thinking American might not agree with, it still provides a condition where violent actions against U.S. citizens, unless government sponsored, are unlikely.

 

That said, thank you for surfacing the bus bombing and the associated press coverage and government reaction ... it is insightful and easily missed.

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

Well, we just had a Bus Bombing here in southern China. Several  Chinese, & 3 americans were injured, 1 american Seriously......

 

 

Why do I have this sneeky feeling that all of the major world powers are being played against each other as a way to try & attemt the other to try & fight another.?

 

Do you still think china is a safer place for Americans? I don't.

 

 

145967[/snapback]

The only thing I've ever felt unsafe with in China was someone removing my wallet on a crowded street.....So, I do things to keep it safe.....

 

...anyone that have ever walked the dark streets of any large city in the US, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles...etc....., knows that there is more chance being shot, mugged, robbed, beaten, etc., on the streets here in the US than there ever will in China.

[Trigg]

There is no doubt that i you can survive the streets of any large American city, you can survive the streets of china. The USA has the highest rates of violent crime of any industrialized nation in the world. I grew up in Chicago's inner city--if anyone thinks China is more dangerous--hang out on the Windy's south side a while.

[Dan R]

I thought the topic was terrorism not street crime. Oh well is an honored tradition to be held and cherished isn't it?

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

I thought the topic was terrorism not street crime. Oh well  is an honored tradition to be held and cherished isn't it?

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Hardly OFF TOPIC, Terrorism is a street crime. It's only called terrorism in the press.

[philb]

correction: they ask two questions -

 

1. which ear?

 

2. Who do they send the bill to for the cost of the bullet?

 

and Trigg; I'll give my age away, but neither you or I ever dared step into Cabrini Greens!

 

Phil