X-Message-Number: 17660 From: "Dani Kollin" <> Subject: On Terrorism, Cryonics and personal experience. Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:26:10 -0700 Hi all, Just a brief note to let you all know I'm back on the list and back in the U.S. after having lived in Israel for the past 7 years. How sadly ironic that what I thought I was escaping in Israel has followed me out here. And that I have the dubious distinction of personally knowing victims on both sides of the Atlantic. How sad also that over the past seven years I have become somewhat innured to the exploits of animals ("human" is too nice a word) intent on causing as much harm, blooshed and terror as possible. This isn't to say that what happened on 9/11 didn't shock me to the core. It is to say that the idea someone would "rise" to such villany did not. Imagine if EVERY week a few hundred Americans died as a result of terrorism. That, in terms of percentages, is what life was like (and continues to be like) in Israel. At first my western educated mind simply couldn't understand what would possess someone to blow themselves up, taking, among others, mothers holding infants along with them. After awhile I no longer asked and simply accepted the grim reality that I could never and would never understand a hatred that deep. Further, I began to find myself moving from my liberal left leaning upbringing to a more conservative right-leaning approach - specifically with regards to dealing with terrorism. While the world was shocked that the Israeli government began to actively assasinate terrorist suspects and planners I, for one was not. That's what it had come down to and that, apparently is what it will come down to in dealing with Bin laden and his ilk. I sincerely doubt many of his cohorts will be shipped back to America to stand trial. More than likely they will be terminated in the name of war, their bodies left to decompose in the dirt and dust from which they hatched their misery on the world. Perhaps knowing I plan on being cryonically preserved will make the present reality more palatable (providing, of course, I make it body intact). But I would caution that we as cryonocists should not sit on our duffs and wait it out but rather do everything we can to make the world we live in NOW as condusive as possible to the future we all dream about waking up in to. Dani Kollin ___________________________________________________________________________ Visit http://www.visto.com. Find out how companies are linking mobile users to the enterprise with Visto. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17660