A heavily fortified building with bulletproof windows and security cameras

[survivor999]

WTF? Are all Jewish centers like this? What does it mean?

Suspect ticketed before Jewish center shootings

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Once he arrived at the Jewish center -- a heavily fortified building with bulletproof windows and security cameras -- Haq hid behind a plant outside one of the center's locked doors. When a young girl approached, he grabbed her and forced her to take him inside, Kerlikowske said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/29/seattle.shooting/index.html

[uppityperson]

1. here is a link about it.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003160573_security29m.html

[Ian David]

2. It means that the world hates Jews and many people kill them

Visit The Southern Poverty Law Center at http://www.SPLCenter.org for enlightenment.

This is why even when we disagree with Israel's actions, many Jews still feel very protective of the only country where they can live without fear of their own government rounding them up into camps. It's also the only country in the mid-east where everyone-- white, black, Mulslim, Jew, Arab, Gay or Straight is allowed to live in freedom.

[survivor999]

3. Ok, but the world hates women and many men kill them

too... And yet, no fortified buildings for women... Whatever...

[Ian David]

4. That's a specious argument. n/t

[survivor999]

6. Not for women who are killed.

They've been killed and abused by patriarchal societies all over the world for much longer than Jewish people have.

[readmoreoften]

14. Your argument is ridiculous. And I'm a woman.

Women comprise 51% of the world's population. They cannot be a nation. There are only 14.5 million Jews left in the world after the holocaust. I'm against patriarchy, but you can't fight patriarchy through lesbian separatism. A few people tried it in the 70s and got nowhere. Women need to fight for themselves where they are born and that's the way it's always going to be. The enemy will always be within your borders.

[survivor999]

16. I think the fortifications are ridiculous

and a symptom of paranoia.

[readmoreoften]

17. Yeah, right, the fortifications caused the attack.

And I bet you don't lock your doors. Please, honor us with more of your wisdom and insight.

[Ian David]

5. Abortion clinics are often fortified. n/t

[survivor999]

13. So, seriously

are you saying that the anti-Jewish nuts are as bad as the anti-abortion nuts in this country? I'm surrounded by Jewish people (not the religious types), and they don't live in a bunker.

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[survivor999]

8. Allahu Akbar?

What does that mean?

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[Redstone]

10. Well, it turns out to be a pretty fucking smart move on their part,

doesn't it? When you know there are assholes out there who want to kill you?

Why do you have a problem with it?

Redstone

[survivor999]

11. Are there any reliable statistics

On Jewish murders in the US? I mean, murders due to documented anti-semitism.

[Redstone]

19. You're getting REALLY tiresome.

Redstone

[survivor999]

12. I don't have a problem with it

But I think that fortification incites more than it deters violence.

[readmoreoften]

15. Nice blaming the victim tactic there.

[Redstone]

18. OK, so does it incite violence for a cop to wear a bulletproof vest?

Ah, I gues you've never had anyone want to kill you just because they don't like your religion. Neither have I. But THEY have.

So it's not up to US to tell them what to do, is it?

Redstone