Proportionalism is for theoreticians. Thu, Jan 8. 2009
If you’re in your apartment, and some emotionally disturbed person is banging on your door, screaming, ‘I am going to come through this door and kill you,’ do you want us to respond with one police officer, which is proportional, or with all the resources at our command? Just think about it in that context. There is no so such thing as a proportional response to terrorism. [..] People’s lives are at risk. And I can to tell you, in New York City we would'nt do anything but to use all our resources to keep you safe. And in America we'd use all our resources to keep you safe. We wouldn't get involved on these ridiculous things like proportionalism. Proportionalism is for theoreticians. The real world is that governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens with everything that they have.
Michael Bloomberg (amtierender Bürgermeister von New York City) bei CNN (via Democracy Now!)
Sowie die Antwort des Studiogastes von Amy Goodman:
Bloomberg says that proportionalism is stupid, it's ridiculous. Osama Bin Laden would agree. This is the ethic of terrorism. And by that standard, does that mean that the Palestinians are now allowed to start killing Israelis at the ratio 100 to 1? Israel is now killing 100 Palestinians for every Israeli. Does that mean, with 600 Palestinians dead, there should now be 600 Israelis dead? And since Bloomberg rejects proportionalism entirely, that's a license for [..] everyone to kill everyone. This is the ethic and the logic of terrorists. [..] And mayor Bloomberg was simply stating what is common place thinking. And unless Obama rejects that on his first day, the US will continue killing civilians. It's right there in front of us. It's right there in the statements. It's right there in the actions. It's right there in the bodies of people who are torn out by american munitions. We have to see it and stop it.
Allan Nairn
Posted by Sebastian Raible
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