Because we received some critical comments by friends and readers of the Athens Olympics 2004 Journal concerning our recent post on the security of the Athens 2004 Olympics we thought that we should be clarifying our position and the situation.
To start let me remind you the words of the great U.S. Statesman, scientist and philosopher Benjamin Franklin: 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty or safety'. My personal belief lies very close to this quote since under no circumstances do I believe that the war against terrorism can be fought (and won in the long term) by security measures of the sort that are followed all around Europe and in the USA at the moment (It would be like saying that a cure for heart disease is to build more cemeteries...). It certainly falls far away from the present Journal to list my opinions on what is wrong with this approach and what other approach should be followed.
Back on the Athens Olympics security subject it is a certain fact that extreme security measures will be taken since security has been an issue that the Greek goverments have been worried about so much to invest hundreds of millions of euros in personnel and equipment in order to fight it. As I reported in the past few days the NATO forces will be keeping a special eye in Athens and Greece during the Olympics and the hundreds of cameras that have been placed all over Athens can certainly guarrantee the safest and best guarded Olympics that were ever performed.
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