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En ung elektronikingeniør ved navn Bernhard Goetz gik en morgen i december i 1984 ned i New Yorks undergrundsbane på vej til arbejde, og da toget kom ind på perronen, gik han ind i en næsten tom vogn. Blandt passagererne var der fire unge sorte.
En af dem spurgte Goetz, hvordan han havde det. »Udmærket,« svarede Goetz.
De fleste andre steder i verden ville en sådan ordveksling være helt ufarlig, men i et undergrundstog på Manhattan kan den være farlig. Ifølge Goetz rejste to af de unge
10 mænd sig og nærmede sig ham, idet en af dem sagde: »Giv mig fem dollars.« Goetz vidste straks, at de ville slå ham ned.

Denne situation var velkendt for alle de mennesker, som var afhængige af offentlig transport på vej til og fra deres daglige arbejde i New York. Byens økonomiske krise og nedskærin-
ger i 1970erne havde ført til katastrofale tilstande i det gamle undergrundssystem. Vognene var dårligt oplyst, snavsede og dårligt vedligeholdt, der opstod jævnligt brande i tunnellerne, og de mere end 1 milliard mennesker, som årligt brugte undergrundsbanen, frygtede den daglige togtur. Det er faktisk forbavsende, at indbyggerne i en af verdens største byer måtte finde sig i sådanne forhold.

Bernhard Goetz gjorde, hvad mange ønsker, de turde gøre. Han lukkede lynlåsen i sin vindjakke op og tog sin Smith &Wesson. 38 kaliber revolver frem. Han mistede besindelsen og skød. En af mændene blev alvorligt såret, da en kugle ramte ham i rygraden og lammede ham fra livet og ned, medens de andre tre kun fik overfladiske kødsår.
Den øjeblikkelige reaktion på Goetz' handling var ros til en mand, der nægtede at lade sig slå ned, og han blev i første omgang kun stævnet for ulovlig våbenbesiddelse. Dette var helt i overensstemmelse med resultatet af en meningsmåling, hvor 47 procent af de udspurgte godkendte, hvad Goetz havde gjort.
Sagen mod Goetz har givet anledning til en lang række artikler i næsten alle amerikanske aviser og tidsskrifter om borgernes ret til selvtægt, når samfundet tilsyneladende svigter sin pligt til at beskytte menigmand.


A morning in December in the year of 1984, a young electronic enginear called Bernhard Goetz went down in New York’s underground in his way to work, and when the train arrived to the platform, he walked into what was almost an empty car. There were four young blacks among the passengers.
One of them asked Goetz how he was, and he replied that he was fine.
A dialogue like this would be completely harmless most other places in the world, but is potentially dangerous in a underground train on Manhattan.
According to Goetz, two of the ten young men stood up and approached him when one of them told Goettz to give him 5 dollars. Goetz knew right away that they were going to mug him.

This situation was well.known by all the people who were dependent on public transportation on their way to their daily jobs in New York, and back. The city’s economical crisis and reductions going on in the 1970’s had resulted in disastrous conditions in the old subway. The cars were badly lighted, they were dirty and in bad condition, from time to time there was a fire in the tunnels, and the more than a bilion people, who used the subway a year feared the daily trainrude, It is actually surprising that the indbyggere had to stick up to such conditions in one of the world’s biggest cities.

Bernhard Goetz did what a lot of people wishes they had the guts to do. He unzipped his jacket and took out his Smith & wesson 38 caliber gun. He lost his composure and pulled the tricker. On of the men got hurt badly when a bullet hit him in the back and paralysed him down from his waist, while the 3 others only got superficial flesh wounds.
The immediately reaktion on Goetz’ action was praise to a man, who refuse to get knock down and in the first time round he got indicted for illegal possesson of firearms. This was in agreement with the result from a poll, where 47 % of those questioned approved what Goetz had done.
The case against Goetz had given occasion to a long row of articles in almost all of the American newspapers and periodical about the right of the citizens to take the law into one's own hands, when the society apparently let down its duty to protect the man in the street.