TRILLIONS to protect Americans from "Terrorists"
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and yet we cannot even fund Meals on Wheels during the sequester.
This is the part of the War on Terror and the NSA surveillance state that blows my mind.
"It is also worth noting that out of the 3,033 deaths attributed to terrorism since 2000, 2,996 were from 9/11. More precisely since 9/11, only 33 deaths were from Muslim Terrorists versus 150,000 deaths from homicides in America. Of the 33, all were from mass shootings that are only classified as terrorism because the shooters were Muslim. Had the the shooters been a guy with orange hair who thought he was the joker, then mysteriously it suddenly becomes not-terrorism.
That means you are 4500 times more likely to be killed by a fellow American than by a Muslim jihadist and 1830 times more likely to be killed at work by some corner cutting company than Al Qaeda. So when the next regressive idiot on Fox News or on Talk Radio starts screaming for us to invade Iran, tell them to adequately fund and enforce work place safety inspections and do something about gun control first.
http://democraticprogress.net/2013/04/infographic-deaths-by-terrorism-vs.html
The War on Terror and the surveillance state are not keeping us safer. They are primarily a way to steal oceans of money for a very tiny group of people and to put in place the mechanisms for despotism.
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If you can orchestrate a "new Pearl Harbor" you can create a new enemy - a new, horrifyingly evil, elusive enemy, willing to live in caves, cut peoples heads off, and strap explosives to their chests.
Americans have been, are, and will be lied to about the "terrorists". The only terrorists we have to fear are the ones created by the United States. 
number of Americans killed by firearms for which the Congress has refused to enact any meaningful regulation even to keep assault weapons off the street?
