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For those of you who wonder just how safe you will be once you've given up all of your Constitutional freedoms and rights, it may be a valuable exercise to see what the odds are that you, personally, will die in one of these terrorist attacks now so often alluded to by Rumsfeld and Ashcroft and their little puppet, the moron.
Using the odds of dying a terrorist related attack during your lifetime as noted below from the CDC, let's compare them to the odds of dying from a long list of real, everyday dangers.
1 in 88,000 of a terrorist attackUsing odds of dying in a way that Americans can relate to, let's compare the above numbers to the odds of dying during your lifetime to homicide from various forms of weapons.
1 in 197 of dying in a homicideNow, the question that every American must ask themselves is this; am I willing to give up my Constitutional freedoms in hopes of avoiding death by lightening, which is 983 times more likely than dying because a terrorists crashes an airplane? Are you willing to live in a Republican/Nazi police state in hopes that you don't die from your clothes catching fire (2669 times more likely) or falling in your bathtub (5261 times more likely)? Are you seriously asking this regime to protect you from being strangled or hanged when the odds of that happening is 10318 times more probable than dying in a terrorist-caused attack? Are you, at your very core, comfortable with the idea of leaving to your children a world in which Republicans/Nazis/fascists control all American's everyday life?
Personally, I'd far rather take my chances with terrorists and attempt to minimize even that danger by forcing America to ignore the shrill and inhuman voices from the right and to move this nation towards a future in which we share the planet will all of its inhabitants. For myself, I'd rather keep my rights and freedoms and extend them to all of mankind. For my children, I would far rather spend my time improving the lot of all than living in fear that my selfish and greedy lifestyle is putting me in danger of dying at the hands of those who my nation has deeply harmed.
Folks, we can change those odds from an everyday fear to one of astronomical proportions through the simple act of behaving decently toward the rest of the world rather than treating them as inconvenient obstacles to the satiation our greater materialism and egocentricity. It is not the well-fed of the world, nor the content citizens of the world that so happily offer up their lives in the process of killing more and more "infidels". By offering the world's poorest the opportunity to obtain the necessary food and health and safety that we take for granted, we eliminate the hatred and envy and disgust that far too many people feel towards this nation.
We can make the world a better place but we will never do so as long as any Republican or Democrat rules this nation. The two major parties will never again represent real human beings because their members are completely, utterly, and forever bought and sold by the wealthy and by Corporate America. Only through the revolutionary process of bringing independent and wise leaders into power can we ever move away from the vile and sick place that these two parties so love. Only through the complete elimination of bribery can we ever see any hope for this world. Only when America once again belongs to real human beings will we take those odds and change them in favor of a world filled with health, prosperity, and contentment.
Fat chance!
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