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Good morning.
"And yet there's some indefinable difference, something I can't put my finger on, about how we would react versus how the Belgians are reacting in this article."

You can see the difference in the response of FReepers as opposed to the response of the Belgians quoted in the article.

We may be keyboard commandos at the moment, but we are angry and making no bones about it.

The Belgians talk about keeping their mouths shut and their eyes averted.

Incidents like this do happen in the USA but not in the way they do in Eurabia, and we are less likely to stand by looking at the ground.

A few years ago two citizens jumped a man who had just gutted a woman on our main drive. The murderer was waving the knife around, but these two men still did what they had to do. Would Europeans have done so? Brits??

Michael Frazier

This actually happened today in Sweden.

Armed robbers fired shots while attempting to rob a jewelry store in a major department store (Incidently, the same department store in which Anna Lindh, the foreign minister, was stabbed to death) in downtown Stockholm.

One of the robbers was wrestled to the ground by shoppers, and the the other was caught by security guards.

I just really noticed that story since it seems unusally to me that people intervene like that.

No one, for instance, intervened whilst Anna Lindh was stabbed to death.

http://www.expressen.se/index.jsp?a=622134