• The War On Irrational Fear
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[QUOTE]So, what’s this all about? Last updated December 2013 American media and elected officials talk about the threat of terrorism daily. In the last decade, the threat of terrorism has been used to justify special exemptions from the Constitution, invasions of other countries, secret surveillance laws, monitoring of innocent people with no reasonable cause for suspicion, and continuous budget deficits, as vast sums of money go to fund the military and surveillance apparatus. When examined, the actual death toll from terrorism in the United States is astonishingly small. In the last 5 years for which data is available, an average of 4.6 Americans per year died from domestic terrorist attacks. And when we look at the publicly known terrorist attacks that have been thwarted, we see that they were small in number, limited in destructive capacity, and in a majority of cases, would probably have never come to fruition on their own.1 [I]Here, we’ll break down the facts for you.[/I][/QUOTE] [IMG]http://waronirrationalfear.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/10/graph_1_large.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://waronirrationalfear.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/10/graph_2_large.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://waronirrationalfear.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/10/graph_3_large.png[/IMG] [B]READ MORE HERE:[/B] [url]http://waronirrationalfear.com/facts[/url] [url]http://waronirrationalfear.com/about[/url]
'War' implies both sides have an equal advantage to win. It's more of an assimilation of fear.
One could argue that all this spending on counter terrorism has curbed terrorism and saved lives. [editline]5th December 2013[/editline] That's generally the response to these kinds of threads
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;43075391]One could argue that all this spending on counter terrorism has curbed terrorism and saved lives. [editline]5th December 2013[/editline] That's generally the response to these kinds of threads[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]But what about the lives we may have saved through anti-terrorism efforts? When terrorism cases result in arrests, it becomes a public record, and therefore, thwarted terrorist attacks that involve arrests cannot legally be kept secret when the activity is in the United States. So, we can get a rough picture of what the threat of terrorism in the U.S. looks like, by surveying these cases. Professor John Mueller of Ohio State University has compiled a report that includes all known cases of Islamic extremism10 which have occurred within, or have been targeted against the United States since 9/11. Out of a total of 52 cases: 3 involved situations where no plot had yet been hatched, but authorities worried one might arise. 27 were “essentially created or facilitated in a major way by the authorities.” In other words, a would-be jihadist, often mentally ill, would be provided the coaxing and resources necessary to carry out an attack, and then arrested once proving that they were willing participants. There are no known plots disrupted that involved weapons of mass destruction. All but two cases involved nothing more dangerous than a plan to set off conventional explosives. Of the two cases which included something more dangerous than conventional explosives, one involved a ludicrous scheme to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge with a simple blowtorch, which the plotters abandoned before they were even arrested. And the other was a plan by a group of Lebanese men to flood railway tunnels under the Hudson River in which the plotters never acquired bombs, nor did they ever make it to the United States. Additionally, in the vast majority of cases, terrorists within the United States have proven inept, as written about by Bruce Scheier in Wired. In only one of four cases in which terrorists attempted to set off a bomb since 9/11, did they even succeed in even igniting it.[/QUOTE]
More of a deterrent though, don't you think?
Sooo judging by these numbers; the terrorists won? Paralyzing the states by "forcing" them to spend insane amounts of money on counter-terrorism? Isn't that the main thing terrorists do, breaking down the "enemy" trough fear? [editline]5th December 2013[/editline] Not saying there shouldn't be any money spent on CT, but this seems a bit excessive, especially seeing what research is being done on medical care, for example.
what if I have an irrational fear of war
Shouldn't the number of terrorism deaths in the last 20 years be higher due to 9/11?
[QUOTE=kiloy;43090349]Shouldn't the number of terrorism deaths in the last 20 years be higher due to 9/11?[/QUOTE] No, because 9/11 was an inside job.
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25114568]There was a video on the beeb the other day where it cited the area around the One World Trade Center has become a maximum security zone for no real reason besides 9/11 happened.[/url]
[QUOTE=kiloy;43090349]Shouldn't the number of terrorism deaths in the last 20 years be higher due to 9/11?[/QUOTE] It's the average deaths per year, not total. Wikipedia has the death toll of 9/11 at 2,978 2,978 deaths / 20 years is 148.9 deaths per year. IF you were only counting 9/11. Other domestic terrorist attacks would make up the other 13.1 deaths per year for the past 20 years.
Terrorism kills millions every year. Terrorism committed by the globalists that is...
im afraid of spiders can we please fund this
The NSA bullies me through my digital tv cause they haters.
Not that I don't agree there is an irrational fear of terrorism, but I'd be interested to see how much of that proposed spending figure is also military operations in foreign countries. Because despite the brouhaha there are operations carried out all the time in places like somalia that have killed or captured leadership of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations that actually would make a dent in international terrorism arguably. These stories are never picked up by the media at large for whatever reason, maybe success doesn't generate as much attention. Because the last time one of those stories was picked up, it was because the SEALs fucked up.
Drowning in bathtub? I wonder how that happend.
[QUOTE=tigge;43168085]Drowning in bathtub? I wonder how that happend.[/QUOTE] Old, drunk, young, sick, injured etc. people fall asleep, fall unconscious, fall in their bathtubs and drown. Really it's not hard to believe. Also, news that somebody drowned in a bathtub doesn't sell, so you never hear about it.
[QUOTE=tigge;43168085]Drowning in bathtub? I wonder how that happend.[/QUOTE] Depends. Sometimes when people have a brain aneurysm they get cold, so they run a bath thinking it will help and then they fall unconscious and drown. Or they die from a hemorrhage.
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