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Originally posted by baltassoc
With due respect to Pat Sajek, I think he overestimates the reaction the world would have to the murder of an abortion activist, and underestimates the local reaction in Northern Europe.
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2. Or: I think Pat needs to get himself some better resources about what is going on internationally before commenting on it. I can't believe he even bothered to try. I've gathered, from reading a not-very comprehensive sampling of non-US news sources, that the murder is in fact freaking out a lot of Europeans (not just the Dutch), and also sparking some serious (and broad-based) reconsideration in "old europe" of their general hostility toward the US's prosecution of the WOT.
eta: to the extent that his complaint is about the US reaction to the murder, I'm not sure what he's looking for - Hollywood to condemn it in a way they wouldn't other murders just because he's "one of them?" It might be better considered evidence of Hollywood's myopia and general inability to notice much of anything going on in the real world at large.
