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Wow, that's outrageous. I wonder if the same sort of inefficient panic would occur at a US airport.

• RiderOfGiraffes 17y ago
  > Wow, that's outrageous. I wonder if the same sort of inefficient panic would occur at a US airport. I expect you don't mean it as such, but that's an incredibly tactless, insulting and insensitive remark. Not least, there was no panic, and it was not inefficient. It was an orderly evacuation and shutdown to allow the threat to be dealt with. European airports and establishments, and UK locations in particular, have a depressingly long history of having to deal with very real threats of multiple deaths on a daily basis. Their responses are based on that experience. In Europe certainly, people are looking at the responses of the US agencies to the 9/11 events. Comparatively speaking, the US has effectively no experience of a domestic terrorist campaign, and most of the reactions to 9/11 are regarded by the rest of the world as going into headless-chicken mode, not knowing how to deal with the sorts of things that Spain, Germany, the UK, and other countries have dealt with for decades. In some cases, for centuries. It's not surprising that the US authorities have introduced the incredibly draconian measures that they have, but in my line of work I dealt with organisations in 8 different countries, and they are all calling the responses "disproportionate", which is diplomatic speak for a much stronger expression. I suggest that in the future you consider carefully the different context before making remarks based on your limited experience.