As I've repeatedly noted, FBI agents and CIA intelligence officials, constitutional law expert professor Jonathan Turley, Time Magazine, Keith Olbermann and the Washington Post have all said that U.S. government officials "were trying to create an atmosphere of fear in which the American people would give them more power".
Indeed, the former Secretary of Homeland Security - Tom Ridge - admits [3] that he was pressured to raise terror alerts to help Bush win reelection.
In the real world, as the National Safety Council notes :
Indeed, much of our debt is due to the wars [6] in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere.
And yet the top American military and intelligence officials say that debt is the main threat to our national security. See this [7] and this [8].
So by over-reacting, we are causing real, substantial and lasting damage to our country. (It is admitted [9] by Bush, Cheney and others that the Iraq war was actually about oil, and the Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11, but this essay takes at face value the government's claims that the wars have been for self-defense.)
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In the real world, as the National Safety Council notes :
(Moreover, the chair of the 9/11 Commission said that the attack was preventable [5]).-- You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane
-- You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack
--You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack
-- You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack
--You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack
--You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack
--You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist
--You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack
-- You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack
Indeed, much of our debt is due to the wars [6] in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and elsewhere.
And yet the top American military and intelligence officials say that debt is the main threat to our national security. See this [7] and this [8].
So by over-reacting, we are causing real, substantial and lasting damage to our country. (It is admitted [9] by Bush, Cheney and others that the Iraq war was actually about oil, and the Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11, but this essay takes at face value the government's claims that the wars have been for self-defense.)
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Tell that to those on 9-11...
ReplyDeleteThe POLICE are more likely (by far) to kill you than a terrorist? Say it ain't so! Okay. It IS so. This whole "terrorism" thing is total crap. The government will strip search you at the airport (and soon at bus and train stations) for a bottle of shampoo. X-Ray your car and your house for "weapons and bombs". Break into your house without warrant while you're on vacation (and search it top to bottom). Set up roadblocks to see IF --- IF --- you are a criminal. But you can walk across the Mexican (or Canadian) border with an atomic weapon (may have already been done, according to the government) or 20 men with automatic rifles and 200lbs of cocaine. We fight the "terrorists", but don't have the heart to kill them (they have more rights than you and I). A Muslim can stand on the street corner in New York city and scream at the top of his lungs, preaching the death of America and you better not say anything (he has "rights"), but a grade school kid posts a facebook comment about "obama better watch out for suicide bombers" and the SECRET SERVICE is at his school the NEXT DAY. We are being CONDITIONED. Complain about it? THAT could be a problem. For you.
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