[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.

[rhombus]

You're about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack.

Source?

[DugwayDuke]

“If you could stop pointing and shrieking long enough to pay attention to what’s being said, you might learn something.”

Which do you consider the greater threat, Islamic Terrorism or the Federal Government?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Hey, and you are not too likely to be murdered either. So why not cut back on homicide divisions in police departments? So what about justice when it’s those other guys who are dead?

[keat]

Ron Paul supporters on FR are sort of like naturalized trolls.

[BigBobber]

The government's post-9/11 legislation was an overreaction and we do need to keep it in perspective.

What the western world realized on 9/11 was that 1) there was no limit to the barbarity of Islamic radicals, and 2) if protected and sponsored by sympathetic governments there was no upper limit on the amount of death and destruction they could unleash on the West.

We were left with two options: severely restrict our own civil liberties and commerce in a (probably futile) attempt to control these people once they entered our realm, or attack and neutralize their safe havens in the Muslim world. I hope Paul would not be in favor of the first option which left us only with the second.

To quote Rumsfeld, "We either have to change the way we live or change the way they live. We have chosen the latter."

[Sherman Logan]

You're about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack.

There are about 75 lightning deaths in America each year. That means that in 2001 you had about one chance in 4,000,000 of dying from a lightning strike.

That compares to a one in 100,000 chance of dying in the 9/11 attacks, or a 40 times greater chance than dying from a lightning strike.

You need to work on your math skills.

[ontap]

That matters little to the people who died and their families.I don’t give a damn if only three people died, those bastards attacked us and we need to kill them. Apologist like Ron Paul will always have a reason to sit on their hands and do nothing. At present I see little difference between Ron Paul and the Democrats.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

You're about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack.

Ron Paul joins Jimmuh at the top of the list of bile-spewing treasonous little weasels...and you trail along not far behind licking up the vomitus. Are you too stupid to comprehend the distinction between a chance accidental event and intentional murder? Yes, you are. Are you too stupid to see that lightning happens when it happens, while tens of milliions of Muzzies are planning and working at this very moment to cause the murder of as many Americans and other infidels as they can? Yes, you are. One can only hope that you have a sufficient moiety of intelligence remaining to recognise how ineffably stupid you are and STFU...but I doubt it.

[ejonesie22]

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...

[Albion Wilde]

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.

[maine-iac7]

If you could stop 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 perspectivelong 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

Only took 30 posts for you to come to bat for your candidate.

I wont "point", I wont "shriek". I'll just tell you, very quietly, my estimation of him...

[LdSentinal]

Nobody is pointing and shrieking. That's left to Ron Turd supporters.

There's a difference between highway deaths and smashing jet airliners into buildinds filled with thousands of people.

[Dr. Frank fan]

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.

Your second sentence does not follow from your first. Making the connection would require making an argument of some kind.

[BlackElk]

With paleoPaulie as POTUS (as though THAT would ever happen!), we could move up and have as much chance of being killed by terrorists as we have of being killed by cardiovascular problems and cancer combined! After all, like Traitor John Kerry, surrender monkey and Al Qaeda spokesthing paleoPaulie sees terrorism as a law enforcement challenge by criminals not as a war against our very civilization.

BTW, have you heard that Traitor John "served" in Vietnam?" Of course, he served the NVA and VC, but never mind.

[L.N. Smithee]

You're about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack.

How nice it must be to be so self-centered that you only think about the security of the nation in terms of how it effects you individually.

[hinckley buzzard]

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

This line of "reasoning" exposes a severe cognitive deficit. I don't really care what you think, but if Ron Paul follows this same twisted "logic" then I call into question his fitness to serve not only in the oval office but in Congress as well.

[hinckley buzzard]

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

This line of "reasoning" exposes a severe cognitive deficit. I don't really care what you think, but if Ron Paul follows this same twisted "logic" then I call into question his fitness to serve not only in the oval office but in Congress as well.

[qman]

“You’re about as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as by a terrorist attack.”

Would you like to re-think that statement. Tell that to the 3000 who died on 9/11, o’ sorry you can’t they won your lighting strike lottery.

Since no mere mortal knows the future any frequency or effectiveness of an attack can only be estimated from past experience, but certain things can be deduced about the future based on certain known criteria.

The enemy want’s to hit us.

They would like to do as much damage as they are capable.

There goal is to distract us from defending our middleastern interests long enough to aquire more power and a wealthy state from which they can attack in a more conventional manner, there neighbors, thus aquiring more power until they can mount an effective world wide conflict for the dominance of Islam.

Would you prefer to fight them now when they are weak, or latter when they have the power of the atom under thier control.

We already waited to long in my opinion, they started this war in the seventies with the taking of the hostages in Iran. We should have crushed them then and many opportunities have presented themselves every few years and yet to this day our leaders believe that Islam is a religion of peace and refuse to understand that it must be distroyed before it destroys us.

The lives that have been lost to this date to the enemy will pale in comparison to what is coming because our leader like Chamberlin beleave a lie. Bush will be seen as a poor idealistic fool who had the oppertunity to end this now but chose not to because he believes that evil is weaker than good and that reason will win out over religious ferver. He is sadly mistaken.

I a ‘Christian’ like my Islamic enemy will never submit to thier evil belief system or thier god. It’s going to come down to him or me, I choose me!

Mark my words this conflict wil make WWII seem quaint by comparison.