Metropolitan Subway Terror Plot
09-25-2014, 03:09 PM
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
The average American has a greater chance of being killed by the police than a terrorist. Also, heart disease, cancer and cars. We have a knack for being very bad at assessing risk -- aided and abetted by the scaremongering media.
09-25-2014, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
The average American has a greater chance of being killed by the police than a terrorist. Also, heart disease, cancer and cars. We have a knack for being very bad at assessing risk -- aided and abetted by the scaremongering media.
Your argument would fit in at averageamerican-in-Des-Moines-forums.com.
09-25-2014, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by flyguyniner11
Yah if we know 20 IS fighters came to the US why don't we go get them?
09-25-2014, 05:36 PM
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09-25-2014, 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by blastoff
I'm an Airline Pilot who rides the subway to work frequently, not a Gang-Banger in East Los Angeles. I have a much higher chance of being killed by terrorism rather than a cop.
Your argument would fit in at averageamerican-in-Des-Moines-forums.com.
Your argument would fit in at averageamerican-in-Des-Moines-forums.com.
09-25-2014, 06:01 PM
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
This is a real threat. Economic harm.
Unless you've got a cure for cancer, this matter is just as pressing. Even if this particular report is just hot air from the Iraqi PM, there are events in motion and subsequently thwarted constantly. Some of the airlines have very good security folks with knowledge of such things if you ever get a chance to talk to them...it will never be in print.
09-25-2014, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by blastoff
Affects far more people, exactly. 9/11 did more than kill 3000 civilians.
Unless you've got a cure for cancer, this matter is just as pressing. Even if this particular report is just hot air from the Iraqi PM, there are events in motion and subsequently thwarted constantly. Some of the airlines have very good security folks with knowledge of such things if you ever get a chance to talk to them...it will never be in print.
Unless you've got a cure for cancer, this matter is just as pressing. Even if this particular report is just hot air from the Iraqi PM, there are events in motion and subsequently thwarted constantly. Some of the airlines have very good security folks with knowledge of such things if you ever get a chance to talk to them...it will never be in print.
My point is that the basis for this economic harm will originate in the public's irrational fear of death by terrorism. I can distinctly remember reporters shoving their mic's in peoples' faces at the airports a month after 9-11 and asking passengers if they "thought it was safe to fly," (and thereby insinuating -- contrary to the mountain of statistical data proving otherwise -- that it wasn't.)
09-25-2014, 07:07 PM
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Originally Posted by GogglesPisano
The average American has a greater chance of being killed by the police than a terrorist. Also, heart disease, cancer and cars. We have a knack for being very bad at assessing risk -- aided and abetted by the scaremongering media.
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