Navy Pride
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I call it 1/10 of 1 year's car fatalities.
So to you that figure is acceptable??????
You're dealing with a 'libertarian/leftist' here. That's all anyone needs to know.So to you that figure is acceptable??????
Is 30,000 deaths/year from cars acceptable?
If by 'fully prepared' someone means taking away even more rights just so a few spineless wimps can feel safer...FORGET IT.
Since 9/11, America has given in too much already to these Americans sans backbones.
If the only way America can be safe is to deny her people the rights that once made America so great, then let America die.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
You're dealing with a 'libertarian/leftist' here. That's all anyone needs to know.
You can improve that figure, there is no way to improve the deaths of 3,000 people on 9/11.
No way to improve the over 37,000 people who lost their lives in cars in 2001 either, is there a point? If you're not concerned with deaths at an order of magnitude above what you're complaining about, then why should one care. And that was 1 time. Since 911 over 400,000 people died in car wrecks. We care about that?
It's not that we should excuse death, but why should I be more concerned with 3000 in a one time event vs 30000+ annually? It seems that maybe our efforts are misplaced. Certainly didn't need to get more than 3000 more Americans dead in a 13 year long war that's still going on. Imagine if we spent that money on driver education or roads or ways to make driving safer, we could have saved way more lives. If you don't care about 30,000 then why would you care about 3000?
And not only that, now you want me to freak out over 0 deaths? Some imagined plot of nuclear attack or whatever I'm supposed to be scared of and thus be OK with government doing anything it wants. Please. Terrorism is not even close to our big killers, those probabilities are rather low. I don't think that going all Chicken Little will behoove us in the least.
Exactly what rights have you given up? Me I have given up none.........'Giving up rights" is a left wing talking point."
I don't give two hoots in hell whether we are as free after 9/11, or not. Inter armas silent leges, and we will damned well do whatever we need to do to destroy the enemies of the United States. The real threat to this country's freedoms comes from the dim, ignorant, America-hating hordes in the lumpenproletariat who--irony of ironies--dare to call themselves "liberal."
There is really no comparisons..........The people that died in accidents made a conscious decision to ride or drive a car.......They knew that although small the chances of dying in and accident were were there.......The people that died on 9/11 in t hose buildings weree not concerned about dying...what happened with those airliners never happened before.......
Surely someone as spaced out on whateven you sniff can see the difference. Probably not.
If you think Americans are as free now as before 9/11, you are politically blind and useless.
If you think Americans are as free now as before 9/11, you are politically blind and useless.
Are you referring to the Patriot Act?
God bless the Patriot Act, it has probably save thousands of lives..........I think he is one of these lefties who throws **** up against the wall and hope something sticks........There are a lot of them in DP.
The Patriot act has saved lives, true. However, it also has given various agencies the green light for unwarranted snooping. I find that to be a violation of my rights. It says it right there in the Bill of Rights.
Sometimes you have to give up something to get something..........Me I have noticed no difference in my life since 9/11 and I thought there would be a huge difference with attacks happening every other week. We can never be fully protected against and attack but it has helped us a lot.
Your probably right but we can be a hell of a lot better prepared then we are.
Again what rights have you lost to keep our country safe?
Sometimes you have to give up something to get something..........Me I have noticed no difference in my life since 9/11 and I thought there would be a huge difference with attacks happening every other week. We can never be fully protected against and attack but it has helped us a lot.
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