You don't have to be a neo-con to take terrorism seriously and to find articles equating it to lightening bolts ridiculous.
- Dan
But the fact remains that you are more likely to die at the hands of a peanut, deer or a lightning strike. So don't you think that your taking this so called terrorist threat way to seriously?
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there's no need to fear terrorism. But we must understand its sources, its reasons, etc.
I think most americans didn't fear terrorism before 9/11... however, terrorism already existed before that and 9/11, and the war in Iraq won't change anything...
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2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
I think if you asked an economist to figure out the cost and benefit of pursuing the most threatening things to "Americans", terrorism would be near the bottom of the list.
If you look at other countries, like Israel you will find a greater threat of terrorism and a real need to tackle it. I don't mean that by means of war either.
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how we respond to it makes all the difference in the world, and to the outcome.
This is a reality which needs to be apprehended by those who live in fear of terrorist attacks. A bomb can be dropped on an Afghan training camp, but it will only anger hundreds of potential fighters. You can catch Usama Bin Laden and hang him, but there will be somebody else waiting to take his place. I am not suggesting bombers and jihadists ought to be negotiatied with, but the way this vague and ineffective war is being fought will do nothing but encourage terrorism, as it has been doing.
how we respond to it makes all the difference in the world, and to the outcome.
This is a reality which needs to be apprehended by those who live in fear of terrorist attacks.
Yes, it is certainly a reality. The key is many people live in fear and by doing so cripple their own thought processes. Most of us in the western world have been taught to repress our emotions, which means we distort what we think and feel. We blame and accuse others for our fears--they are bad and they cause our fear. We disown responsibity for our own emotions (repress them) And really, the actual solution is easy. When we own our fears as being part of life, and feel them, they pass. By processing fear in healthy ways like this and letting them GO, we also get the wise message from them--such as realizing what is there to realistically fear. And then we are able to move into using reasoning potently without distortion, and therefore being able to SOLVE our problems, rather than creating new ones like is the current problems we keep creating such as the skewed Iraq war.
"The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth." ~ Niels Bohr
If western governments were really trying win the "war on terror" they wouldn't give terrorists so much credit
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, January 5, 2007
The menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat to western civilization since communism and yet swimming pools, peanuts and lost deer kill more Americans every single year. Why are our governments facilitating the terrorist's agenda by hyping a peril that simply doesn't exist?
The number of Americans killed as a result of international terrorism since the 1960's gives us a benchmark from which we can correctly identify and target other dire dangers to our very way of life.
- Allergic reactions to peanuts
- Accident causing deer
- Lightning strikes
That's correct - all of the above have killed an equal number of Americans since 1960 as terrorism. One could even categorize M&M's, lost deer and the weather as an "axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world," as George Bush famously once said.
As Ohio State University's John Mueller concludes in a report entitled A False Sense Of Insecurity, "For all the attention it evokes, terrorism actually causes rather little damage and the likelihood that any individual will become a victim in most places is microscopic."
Last summer's much vaunted transatlantic terror plot, a facade that has since collapsed under the weight of its own absurdity, led to ridiculous measures in airports banning any form of liquids in carry on luggage and mother's were forced to drink their own breast milk. Yet there has not been a bomb planted in a piece of checked luggage on an American carrier since the 1988 Lockerbie disaster, itself a false flag inside job. Since that time hundreds of billions of Americans have been routinely interrogated about the contents of their luggage while cargo remains completely unchecked.
To equal the danger that Americans place themselves in every day by driving their car down the highway, there would have to be a September 11 every month. To reach the same level of risk that one undertakes in boarding an airline, you only have to travel eleven miles in a car.
The principle goal of terrorists is to terrify populations and governments into acquiescing to their political demands. The only way they can achieve this is by generating a substantial amount of fear and making people believe the lie that their life is significantly threatened by potential terrorism, when in reality the swimming pool in their backyard poses more of a danger.
As soon as we lose the fear, the terrorists lose their power over us to control our behavior. If western governments were really trying to win a war on terror as they claim then they would downplay and sideline acts of terror, pointing out that an individual has more chance of being struck by lightning than being killed in a terror attack.
And yet what do we see? George Bush and Dick Cheney frothing at the mouth predicting mushroom clouds over America, Fox News telling us every day it's not a matter of if but when we're attacked again, the British government warning that only "a miracle" would prevent London from being attacked over the holidays.
Mueller elaborates,
"What is needed, as one statistician suggests, is some sort of convincing, coherent, informed, and nuanced answer to a central question: “How worried should I be?” Instead, the message the nation has received so far is, as a Homeland Security official put (or caricatured) it, “Be scared; be very, very scared — but go on with your lives.” Such messages have led many people to develop what Leif Wenar of the University of Sheffield has aptly labeled “a false sense of insecurity.”
By making these statements and continually recycling the hysteria, these entities are facilitating the goals of terrorists, driving forward an agenda that could not alone be fueled by relatively minor, rare and inconsequential attacks that take few human lives in comparison to the real dangers that we face every day - mundane things like car accidents, cancer and heart disease.
In that context, allied with the voluminous evidence that every major terror attack we have witnessed was either a provocateured set-up or an outright inside job, western governments are staffed at the very top by terrorists who are openly espousing the creed and statecraft of terrorism.
Only by coming to the understanding that terrorism is such a limited threat to our livelihoods and communicating that to others can we disarm the alarmist propaganda that governments utilize in order to enlist our obedience for the construction of the prison planet.
Fear is a lie.
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Everyone is against the "Peanut"....lol...I like peanuts !
In a sense, a terrorist attack is an accident. They aren't targeting YOU personally, just an area. Much like a lightning strike. The victims just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you don't want to be struck by lightning, don't hang out under a tree or walk around with a metal pole or fly a kite during a storm. Seems to me the same logic would apply to terrorism. Don't bomb people and they'd be less pissed off.
Wrong place at the wrong time huh? I don't think so man, if a terrorist attack is in a sense, an accident, then the logic would mean for people not to work in international buildings (WTC), for the govt (Barracks), or hang out in crowded places(Subway, Bus) period.
So if I don't want to be struck by lightning ever in my life, I should steer clear of trees, and if I don't want to be killed by a terrorist, I should stay in my basement the rest of my life.
Wrong place at the wrong time huh? I don't think so man, if a terrorist attack is in a sense, an accident, then the logic would mean for people not to work in international buildings (WTC), for the govt (Barracks), or hang out in crowded places(Subway, Bus) period.
So if I don't want to be struck by lightning ever in my life, I should steer clear of trees, and if I don't want to be killed by a terrorist, I should stay in my basement the rest of my life.
What are you talking about?
But there's no point in being afraid, that's the whole point. It's irrational behaviour in my opinion. I'm not saying you should ignore it but fear is, imo, the most irrational and ridiculous respons.
'Peanuts never stop thinking of ways to harm our people and our country. And neither do we.'
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But the fact remains that you are more likely to die at the hands of a peanut, deer or a lightning strike. So don't you think that your taking this so called terrorist threat way to seriously?
The economy has polarized to the point where the wealthiest 10% now own 85% of the nation’s wealth. Never before have the bottom 90% been so highly indebted, so dependent on the wealthy.
I think most americans didn't fear terrorism before 9/11... however, terrorism already existed before that and 9/11, and the war in Iraq won't change anything...
2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
2009: Rotterdam, London
2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
If you look at other countries, like Israel you will find a greater threat of terrorism and a real need to tackle it. I don't mean that by means of war either.
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Everyone is against the "Peanut"....lol...I like peanuts !
Wrong place at the wrong time huh? I don't think so man, if a terrorist attack is in a sense, an accident, then the logic would mean for people not to work in international buildings (WTC), for the govt (Barracks), or hang out in crowded places(Subway, Bus) period.
So if I don't want to be struck by lightning ever in my life, I should steer clear of trees, and if I don't want to be killed by a terrorist, I should stay in my basement the rest of my life.
What are you talking about?
But there's no point in being afraid, that's the whole point. It's irrational behaviour in my opinion. I'm not saying you should ignore it but fear is, imo, the most irrational and ridiculous respons.
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