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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

I don’t think Ron Paul is a bad person; a bad human being. I DO believe, however, that he has a basic misunderstanding of what being a staunch Constitutionalist is all about. I truly do. He’s missed the boat somewhere........


161 posted on 09/23/2007 3:22:27 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: DugwayDuke
An armed citizenry is more than a match for terrorists. If just some passengers and pilots had been armed on 9/11, we would have had 19 dead terrorists and few if any other casualties.
162 posted on 09/23/2007 3:22:27 PM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: LdSentinal
“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? ..."

It's official. Ron Paul is a certifiable nutcase.

163 posted on 09/23/2007 3:23:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Don't taze me, Bro!)
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To: potlatch

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Hillary will say or do anything to get votes

Then she will do exactly what she wants and scream out CYA’s:

“I never voted to invade Iraq!”


164 posted on 09/23/2007 3:23:18 PM PDT by devolve (---- -The_Fool_On_The_Hill_Is_No_Mountain_Climber-)
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To: LdSentinal
So we should do nothing when attacked by finaticals?
Ron Paul, you're a freeking Idiot!
165 posted on 09/23/2007 3:23:27 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Iwo Jima

Good for your son.

I’m not a RP supporter though.


166 posted on 09/23/2007 3:25:09 PM PDT by listenhillary (millions crippled by the war on poverty....but we won't pull out)
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To: devolve

True, or she can just call them by another name, lol.


167 posted on 09/23/2007 3:28:14 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: maine-iac7
LOL! That was most definitely a typo. Not the first that I’ve made, but the funniest.
168 posted on 09/23/2007 3:29:34 PM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: keat; Allegra
Twenty posts and not a peep from the Paulestinian Liberation Organization on FR.

Just stick something in about the War On Drugs...that'll get 'em lit up, mach schnell.

169 posted on 09/23/2007 3:32:02 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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To: listenhillary

He may well change his mind, and that will be all right. He is taking it all very seriously. It is interesting to see how this generation gets their information. [Hint: NOT the 6 o’clock news or Sunday TV. ]


170 posted on 09/23/2007 3:33:09 PM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: jennyjenny
killed on our roads by illegal aliens that want to take our land from us.

drunken drivers, sometimes illegal aliens that just don’t care.

and so on.

roads don’t kill, people carelessly driving cars kill, mame

171 posted on 09/23/2007 3:37:45 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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To: potlatch

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The Klintoons gave us an accurate tool to measure the % of idiots, traitors, Commies, and criminals in the USA


172 posted on 09/23/2007 3:45:30 PM PDT by devolve (---- -The_Fool_On_The_Hill_Is_No_Mountain_Climber-)
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To: All

The numbers are not a point to contest.

But Ron Paul is a world class douchebag for making the comparison. It was totally unnecessary, and done so only to create a provocative statement that might generate some press.

DOUCHE-BAG


173 posted on 09/23/2007 3:45:45 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestu s globus, inflammare animos)
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To: devolve

I assume “they, themselves” are the tool??


174 posted on 09/23/2007 3:48:31 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: LdSentinal
Mr. Paul's correct about the relative statistics. He'd also have been correct had he applied that statistical comparison to Pearl Harbor.

It'd be interesting to see how he would differentiate between the two attacks.....

175 posted on 09/23/2007 3:50:11 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: finnman69

It was a clumsy, “shot-in-the-foot” moment, but people on this thread are making entirely too much fuss about it.


176 posted on 09/23/2007 3:51:08 PM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Iwo Jima
Clumsy moment?
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

177 posted on 09/23/2007 3:55:55 PM PDT by Old 300 (Oligarchy or Republic: which shall it be?)
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To: potlatch

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Elections - esp. since Clinton are the tool

Hillary is bring the democrats back to McGovern and beyond

The radical dingbats - top 3 running - are all showboating Socialist huge programs and tyrannical controls and massive tax increases while writing weekly speeches for bin Laden


178 posted on 09/23/2007 3:58:04 PM PDT by devolve (---- -The_Fool_On_The_Hill_Is_No_Mountain_Climber-)
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To: Always Right
Ron has lost every bit of credibility he had left. Now he is a terrorist apologist. How disgusting.

I'll disagree with you there. He's not quite a terrorist apologist, because I don't think that's his intent. I think it's actually worse than that: he's making a damned fool ideological argument.

Look what he's saying: that the "relatively small" number of dead from 9/11 don't justify the resultant security measures. It's a computation of "loss of liberty" vs. "severity of attack".

What Mr. Paul is attempting to do, is to downplay the danger posed by Islamic fundamentalist terrorism. It's very reminiscent of the way people tried to excuse Hitler's Germany in the mid-30s. And that is the real danger of what he's doing.

179 posted on 09/23/2007 3:59:13 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: LdSentinal

What an idiot...big difference here...car accidents are accidents...planes flying into buildings by radical fanatical terrorist is an attack on the United States of America....I can’t believe how stupid that statement is...NO COMPARISION WHATSOEVER...


180 posted on 09/23/2007 4:01:12 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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