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Ron Paul: Highways claim more than 9/11 killed
Baltimore Sun ^ | 9/22/07 | Rick Pearson

Posted on 09/23/2007 10:47:55 AM PDT by LdSentinal

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul contends that the federal government has overreacted by limiting personal freedom in the wake of terrorist attacks six years ago, noting more people die on U.S. highways in less than a month’s time compared to the number who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.

“We have been told that we have to give up our freedoms in order to be safe because terrorism is such a horrible event,” Paul said today to more than 1,000 supporters who attended a rally at a downtown Chicago hotel ballroom.

“A lot fewer lives died on 9/11 than they do in less than a month on our highways, but once again, who owns the highways? Do we own the highways? No. It’s a government institution you know. …We need to put all this in perspective.”

More than 2,970 people were reported dead in the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Federal highway traffic statistics show an average of 3,509 people a month were killed on the nation’s highways in 2001.

(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.baltimoresun.com ...


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To: LdSentinal

[noting more people die on U.S. highways in less than a month’s time compared to the number who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. ]

Well, that interesting revelation kind of puts 9/11 in perspective. I guess the 3000+ dead is OK after all. {sarc off)

What a penis pimple!


121 posted on 09/23/2007 1:45:38 PM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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To: LdSentinal

What a stupid blanking statistic. Ron Paul really is a horse’s *ss.


122 posted on 09/23/2007 1:47:21 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
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To: LdSentinal

Highway accidents aren’t caused by AN ARMY OF PEOPLE TRYING TO KILL US, RON.

What a douche. This guy might as well be a George Soros-funded candidate .


123 posted on 09/23/2007 1:48:22 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: LdSentinal; All

They’re already putting up election signs for Paul in Austin,Tx.

RON PAUL

R(evol)ution

That’s either evil spelled wrong or love spelled backwards.


124 posted on 09/23/2007 1:48:48 PM PDT by wolfcreek (The Status Quo Sucks!)
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To: keat

“Twenty posts and not a peep from the Paulestinian Liberation Organization on FR.”

Good, because they need to take their asses to MoveOn.org where they belong.


125 posted on 09/23/2007 1:50:44 PM PDT by DesScorp
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To: rhombus
This means he'd accept a certain number of American deaths as a "collateral damage" trade off for the maintenance of civil liberties. I wonder if he's thought about how high that number would be before he'd draw some sort of line.

If he were to actually draw a line it would be allowed to be crossed while they drew another line.

126 posted on 09/23/2007 1:56:35 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: LdSentinal

...and very specifically, Mr Paul, what personal freedoms have you lost? That’s right, absolutely none. Yet, you are willing to compromise the ability of your government to protect it’s citizens, and join the George Bush bashing bunch in the process. Let’s see, who do I trust?


127 posted on 09/23/2007 1:59:26 PM PDT by wita (truthspeaksi@freerepublic.com)
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To: LdSentinal
He’s nothing but a #ucking idiot. Exactly what rights has the gov. infringed on? The right to plan terrorist attacks against the U.S. via cell phones ? What a complete @hole this guy has turned out to be.
128 posted on 09/23/2007 2:05:56 PM PDT by mimaw
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To: JTN; All
Yeah, good point. Guess we need to ignore the terrorist for awhile until they dump a nuke in Tulsa or a few bits of nerve agent in Pittsburgh or something.

That will skew the results of course, but hey, statistics are fun, I mean they are just infidel Americans...

Glad you clear that up for us dude...

129 posted on 09/23/2007 2:06:46 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: rhombus
I prefer to be killed be neither...

I don’t walk outside in a thunderstorm and I want my government to kill the scum anywhere they are...

130 posted on 09/23/2007 2:08:59 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: LdSentinal

If he doesn’t take the killing of 3,000 innocent people by terrorists seriously, than he doesn’t belong anywhere near the White House.


131 posted on 09/23/2007 2:10:55 PM PDT by popdonnelly (No more no win wars.)
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To: LdSentinal

More Americans are also killed by illegal “migrants” than were killed in the 9/11 attack....-....-.....-.....


132 posted on 09/23/2007 2:12:27 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (in the halls of Valhalla...)
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To: JTN; All
Guess it’s an all call for the “High” Council of the Paulinati...
133 posted on 09/23/2007 2:13:26 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: JTN
If you could stop pointing and shrieking long enough to pay attention to what's being said, you might learn something. You're about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack. The government's post-9/11 legislation was an overreaction and we do need to keep it in perspective.

It's difficult to convince the straight-line thinkers among us that our choice is
1) to adequately estimate the potential for mass destruction posed by this enemy, or
2) assume our enemy will stay at the same level and not become emboldened by our willingness to ignore its potential.

Perhaps you should contemplate the political fallout after Katrina wrecked a city, where hurricanes had never reached Category 5 before — but had been widely predicted to do so some day soon.

134 posted on 09/23/2007 2:18:30 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ( America: “...the most benign hegemon in history.” —Mark Steyn)
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; Grampa Dave




Do not upset the paul-snorting lobby!




135 posted on 09/23/2007 2:21:30 PM PDT by devolve (---- -The_Fool_On_The_Hill_Is_No_Mountain_Climber-)
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To: massfreeper

It’s just a numbers game dontcha know...


136 posted on 09/23/2007 2:23:29 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (I don't use a sarcasm tag, it kills the effect...)
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To: devolve

Lol! Somewhere along the way Ron Paul became ‘strange’ for lack of a better word.

As a Texan, I can remember a time when I actually liked him. His family sent out great cook books!!


137 posted on 09/23/2007 2:24:39 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: LdSentinal
Ron Turd seems to be unaware that there were 50,000 people in the Twin Towers on 9/11. Wrong.
138 posted on 09/23/2007 2:28:55 PM PDT by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: All

I’m a member of a grassroots forum and the nutters in there are psychos. I received a PM from one of them this afternoon screaming at me because I don’t like Ron Paul. According to him it’s all Bush’s fault that he is doing his third tour in Iraq. He said that I need to take a look at my soul for supporting anybody but Ron Paul because Ron Paul will get them all out of Iraq. I didn’t reply to him but I wanted to ask him why he was blaming me because as far as I know we have a volunteer army and nobody twisted his arm to make him join.

I’d like to see us out of there too but not until the time is right. Ron Paul would be a disaster on national security.


139 posted on 09/23/2007 2:29:08 PM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: LdSentinal

L Ron Retarded


140 posted on 09/23/2007 2:34:19 PM PDT by samtheman
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