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There is nothing about monitoring our email that is necessary for security. The war on terror is a giant hoax, more people are killed every year choking on pean
by woah 14y ago
There is nothing about monitoring our email that is necessary for security. The war on terror is a giant hoax, more people are killed every year choking on peanut butter. Members of the government are always reaching for more and more control over our lives and power to watch us.
- mikeash 14y agoDo you have a cite for the peanut butter thing? I'd love to use that figure, but would hate to be unable to back it up if asked.
- mtgx 14y agoI don't know about the peanut one, but you can find plenty others. Like more people die because of alcohol every year, or one that I read recently that more veterans commit suicide every year than die in the wars, etc.
- w1ntermute 14y agoAnother good one is the number of people that die in car accidents in the US every year, largely due to human error - 32,367 people in 2011. If the government took one tenth of the money it spends on defense every year (which was $1.030–$1.415 trillion for 2012), or approximately $100 billion dollars, and invested it in driverless car research and the infrastructure changes necessary for it, a much bigger benefit could be wrought. But that won't happen, because it's the lobbying of the military-industrial complex that determines where money is spent.
- mikeash 14y agoI use that one a lot. Roughly one 9/11 every month, continually, and nobody really cares.
- jwoah12 14y agoIt isn't that nobody cares. It's that people see (however irrationally) car accidents as an unpreventable occurrence, while they see terrorism as something that can be stopped if we go and kill the bad guys that are doing it.
- pjbrunet 14y agoIf you want to play that game, nothing beats abortion deaths. http://www.numberofabortions.com/ http://www.numberofabortions.com/
- monochromatic 14y agomilitary-industrial complex Most of what you said is true enough, but this nonsense loses you credibility. It's like saying "it's the corporations, man."
- mikeash 14y agoYeah, that guy who planned the Normandy invasion was a complete nutball.
- urza 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_com...
- ScottBurson 14y agoIn the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1961
- stdgy 14y agoThere's nothing nonsensical about it. It's a well established political reality, and has been widely discussed for more than fifty years.
- neumann_alfred 14y agoHow is this nonsense? How does personal credibility enter into it, anyway? Argue with the statement, but spare the ironical projecting (saying "mentioning this or that phrase makes anything you say suspect" IS actually like intellectually lazy slogans you pretend to be against) The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business - ethically and morally corrupt from top to bottom. The process is dominated by advocacy, with few, if any, checks and balances. Most people in power like this system of doing business and do not want it changed. -- Colonel James G. Burton A rose is a rose is a rose, and so is a turd; what labels you accept or don't is your personal thing, but otherwise irrelevant.
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- rcsorensen 14y agoThe best source I can find is http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-broussard/food-allergy-deaths-less_b_151462.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-broussard/food-allerg... . A call to the CDC press office revealed that the number of deaths from food allergies, as collected from 2.5 million death certificates across the country, is miniscule. Only eleven people died from food allergies in 2005, the last year for which we have data available. More people died from lawnmower accidents.
- gnaritas 14y agoNot that I disagree entirely, but looking at deaths prevented isn't really relevant. Terrorism isn't about death, it's about terror, putting people in a state of fear. The war on terror isn't about preventing death, it's about preventing fear. People aren't afraid of choking on peanut butter or car accidents because they feel they have some control over those situations. Terrorism creates fear by removing that sense of control.
- polshaw 14y ago>The war on terror is... about preventing fear. Many people would argue exactly the opposite
- gnaritas 14y agoYou can argue the opposite of anything, and many do; doesn't mean anything. 911 for example, caused the fear, which then was used to pass draconian laws, but those laws were meant to both seize power and alleviate the fear, to the point of implementing things like the TSA, which aren't real protection, but make people feel less fear.
- mhurron 14y agoOther than the government with it's war on terror, who has actually done anything to perpetrate fear in the population? Since 2001, there has been no terrorist activity against the US. You are told about threats the war on terror has dealt with, but no actual action or actors can be pointed to yet the government is keeps the fear of terror alive. They have done far more to that end than any terrorist organization has. This causes the population in general to accept any course of action that they are told will deal with that looming threat, but it never seems to do so. Once side of the government generates and keeps the fear alive, the other side uses the fear to do what they wish. Neither side wants the fear to go away. The US Government is the largest group terrorizing the US population today. They use the war on terror to do it.
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- tsotha 14y ago>The war on terror is a giant hoax, more people are killed every year choking on peanut butter. The fact that the Islamists don't kill millions every year doesn't make it a "giant hoax". The fact that they haven't killed more isn't due to a lack of motivation, only to a lack of means. And they've been reaching for the means.
- Hikari 14y agowtf would do you know about it ? if you have nothing to back up your claims then it might be better to just keep it quit.
- tsotha 14y agoI know documentation was found in Afghanistan outlining attempts to acquire sarin gas for use in a terrorist attack in the US. On the other hand, maybe it was all faked, right, like the WTC attack? Maybe you should keep it "quit" yourself. And while you're keeping it "quit", take an English class. I would advise keeping it "quit" during the class so the teacher doesn't realize you're not the sharpest tooth on the saw.