We Are Still Alive (Non-Terrorism
Edition)
By Peter Van Buren
January 02, 2015 "Information
Clearing House"
-
I survived. America, and the world,
and you, survived. We awoke the
first day of 2016 to find that once
again, using the extraordinary power
of fear, we defeated the terrorists.
Hard as it is to persuade a
constantly re-frightened American
public, there have been only
38 Americans killed inside the
Homeland by so-called Islamic
terrorism since 9/11.
Argue the number, hell, go ahead and
double or triple it, and it still a
tragic, sad, but undeniable drop in
the bucket. Throw in a few
mysterious “foiled plots” the
government never seems to have many
specifics on to share and tack on
some more to the terror body count.
No matter how hard you drive, you
just can’t get the number of
Americans killed or even in clear
danger of being killed to a very
large number.
And do spare the tired trope of
“well, security measures such as at
our airports have saved us from who
knows how many attacks.” Leaving
aside the idea that the argument
itself demands a kind of negative
logic (the “who knows” part) to even
make sense, a recent test by the
Department of Homeland’s own
Inspector General’s Office, posing
as travelers, showed
95 percent of contraband,
including weapons and explosives,
got through during clandestine
testings. If a failure rate of 95
percent did not have planes falling
from the sky, one must conclude
security has little to affect
terrorism.
CNN on the Eve told us that over one
million people were in Times Square
to see in the New Year, along with
6,000 cops. The guest being
interviewed helpfully said that
meant each cop would have to watch
166 people (actually, the guy said
300-500 to upgrade the worry) for
signs that they were terrorists, and
worried that the ratio was not
enough to protect those out of each
bunch of 166 who were not bad guys.
Guess what? None of them were. More
Americans died of alcohol poisoning
(booze terror!) on New Year's Eve
than terrorism.
We are not terrorists. No one was
hurt. No bombs went off. Almost all
of our homegrown lone wolves are all
Google and no game. It was all
panic, designed to keep us in a
state of fear. Fearful people are
easy to manipulate.
Stop being afraid.
