Anyone you know been killed by a deer?

medicineman · #1 01-06-2007, 11:37 AM

Peanuts Kill More Americans Than Terrorists
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.

Enemy Combatant: Fear the deer.
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 on the interstate!
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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.

themaritimer · #2 01-06-2007, 11:51 AM

That's a very interesting post medicineman. Definetly leaves a person with some things to consider outside of - they're probably hiding in a cave just outside the city limits waiting to pounce.

ViRedd · #3 01-06-2007, 03:09 PM

Actually, I used to have a boss (when I was in the corporate world) who had a friend that was killed by a deer. He was hunting and seperated from the hunting party. He shot a buck, the approched it to see if it was dead. When he poked the deer with his rifle, the deer jumped up and gored the guy to death. When he was found, the deer was laying dead, the hunter was dead and his rifle butt was shattered from the hunter trying to club the deer to death. Stupid hunter.

Vi

mookab · #4 01-06-2007, 03:38 PM

you're trying to compare 47 yrs of the other BS to what it only took 10 yrs for the terrorist to do. Plus the other BS don't look for victims. Terrorist do!!!!! I don't think we're fighting hard enough. Because we're trying to fight a moral war. The terrorist don't give a damn. We need to warn the inocent people in Iraq and Iran to leave town And in a few weeks bomb the hell out of them. Iran and Korea never should have gotten as far as they are with their nukes. They think we're a joke. We need to stop playing with them!!!!!

Wavels · #5 01-06-2007, 04:22 PM

Deer are a clear and present danger in my area.......I've had many close calls in my car....they jump right into the road....

Med, the author of the piece exemplifies the ostrich like mentality displayed by the left, IMO!

mookab has it right....welcome aboard!

I read this essay a couple of days ago and thought of it while reading meds' thread.
Real or imagined threats is the topic, I have excerpted the last section below......

All of the foregoing so-called "threats" to our existence (and there are undoubtedly many more which have been omitted from the list) have one important thing in common: None of them have come to pass. None of them.

They also have one other, just as important, thing in common: They're either just blameless occurrences of nature or they're the fault of Conservative Republicans. In the case of Global Warming, the Antique Media clearly imply that it's the result of shameless capitalistic Republicans and their ruthless pursuit of profits, operating their money-churning businesses without regard to the environment, employing illegal immigrants for slave wages in sweat shops, while denying them taxpayer-funded health benefits. All authorized and approved by President Bush, needless to say.

However, the AM are not quite so quick to point out the real threat to our way of life: radical Islamic terrorism. While the list of potential catastrophes listed above remains just that-potential-the threat from Islamic extremists is very real and immediate. Another historical recounting of innumerable terrorist acts against Western interests is hardly necessary, but the Kobar Towers, the African embassies, the U.S.S. Cole, 9/11, 3/11, and 7/7 all provide hard evidence that Islamic extremists are actively waging war against our culture. The availability of WMD to terrorists only heightens the immediacy of the danger.

The secular-progressive/moral-equivalence factions in most Western countries will not even acknowledge that we're involved in a War on Terror. Most of them undoubtedly subscribe to the thought put forth by H.L. Mencken in 1920, recently cited by Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

As Kerry so revealingly said during the 2004 Presidential campaign, he hoped that we could get back to the point where terrorism was a mere "nuisance," implying that the "War on Terror" was a trumped-up Republican political ploy. Yet if we're to have any real chance of ending (or at least controlling) terrorism, the liberal bloc-both media and political-must wake up to the realities of how things are, as opposed to how they pretend things are.

Is there any real hope of their coming around to support the War on Terror? Given the current state of rancorous political discourse in this country, it's tough to imagine.

American Thinker: Threats, Real and Imagined

medicineman · #6 01-06-2007, 08:12 PM

Is there any real hope of their coming around to support the War on Terror? Given the current state of rancorous political discourse in this country, it's tough to imagine.
War on terror is an oxymoron, terror is a state of mind, and our esteemed government is the one fomenting it!

DankyDank · #7 01-07-2007, 11:15 AM

The guy who wrote that article is an ivory tower airhead. He builds a strawman by picking an arbitrary date and some unrelated statistics and then knocks it down. "The sky is blue, I ate grapefruit for breakfast.... therefore, the pope is the anti-christ." What a retard.

When peanuts rebel and start blowing shit up, or deer start hijacking airplanes, I'll reconsider my position.

medicineman · #8 01-07-2007, 12:19 PM

When peanuts rebel and start blowing shit up, or deer start hijacking airplanes, I'll reconsider my position. The gist of the article, in case you missed it, was that we shouldn't live in fear of the "Terrorists" because we have a larger chance of being injured or killed by a deer, or lightning, or cancer Etc., The real terrorists are are The Government, for they are the ones fomenting the dangers of terrorists. ( terror: a state of intense fear; Terrorism; the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. Terrorize, To fill with terror, to coerce by threat or violence, terrify, alarm, frighten or startle!) I think these are the tactics used by our own Government to Coerce us into accepting things like the "Patriot Act", remember the color codes, we've never been below orange since 9-11, are you really scared? If so the government has won!

ViRedd · #9 01-07-2007, 03:55 PM

Personally, I want every Extremist Muslim terrorist dead. I want MY government to kill them. Preferably on THEIR territory and not in mine.

Vi

Wavels · #10 01-07-2007, 04:56 PM

Yes, Vi, it is certainly true that these extremists have identified themselves to us.....They have basically put a bulls-eye on themselves, and have "double-dog dared" us to shoot. Shame on us for not obliging them!
Reality is a bummer!

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