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Re: AMA post# 11326

Monday, 04/22/2013 10:22:54 AM

Monday, April 22, 2013 10:22:54 AM

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New era in ourdaily life: more CCTV:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/21/jeffrey_goldberg_were_moving_into_the_era_of_the_suspicious_package.html
Jeffrey Goldberg: Welcome To "The Era Of The Suspicious Package"
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DAVID GREGORY: Jeffrey Goldberg, you have chronicled how societies react to terrorism, particularly in Israel, and in all your reporting in the Middle East. There’s a lot to what Tom says about Islamic rage, about how society has changed and how this potentially changes us.

MR. JEFFREY GOLDBERG (Columnist, Bloomberg View/Writer, The Atlantic): Well, you know, yeah. They-- the slogan is see something, say something. But I think that’s honored theoretically by most people in train stations or-- or at ball games or at marathons. I think we’re moving into the new era, actually. And the-- I-- I call the era of the suspicious package which is from now on, and we’re going to see this over and over again, when you do see something at the next marathon, somebody leaves a gym bag, it’s going to cause a response that didn’t happen before. And I think Tom is exactly right. We’re moving also into the area of CCTV--closed circuit TV. You know, you-- in London today, you really can’t walk down the street in London without being filmed by someone, by the police or private security. We are-- we are moving definitively in that direction and that should cause discomfort and these things don’t, of course, stop events from happening necessarily. You can’t be 100 percent vigilant on every package, every bag that’s left on the street, so we are moving into a new phase. The other thing is, though, is that this is really the most successful terror attack since 9/11. It’s been 12 years between these two attacks. So it’s important not to overstate how dangerous this-- this moment is.