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Originally posted by Kryties
Originally posted by MysteriousHusky
reply to post by Kryties
I'd like to see those tv stats if you have them. If you expand what constitutes as a terrorist by post 9/11 definitions then globally I believe more people are in fact killed by terrorist-actions if not by the terrorists themselves than by tv sets.
www.dailypaul.com...
More Americans Killed by Bees and Wasps or Falling Televisions than by Terrorists
Since 9/11, a total of 238 American citizens have died from terrorist attacks, or an average of 24 per year, although only 15 Americans died in 2010 and 17 in 2011—none of them in the United States and almost all of them in Afghanistan or Iraq, where the U.S. has been waging wars for a decade. Thus out of 25,719 terrorism-related deaths worldwide in 2010-2011, Americans accounted for only 0.124%. This is consistent with the fact that the total number of attacks worldwide in 2011 dropped by nearly 12 percent from 2010 and nearly 29 percent from 2007.
To put these numbers in perspective, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the average American is as likely to be crushed to death by televisions or furniture as they are to be killed by a terrorist.
Originally posted by pianopraze
Sorry if this has been posted - please delete if it has, I've been away from ATS for a while. I just saw this and got mad. I did a search and was surprised it didn't come up.
I am so overwhelmed and tired of talking about this subject, and been avoiding ats because I just don't want to talk about it anymore. I'm beyond mad to just... loosing hope for our nation. I'm sure there are a lot worse nations, and some better. But this is mine, and it breaks my heart.
gizmodo.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
Originally posted by victor7
This technology can go on the oversensitive mode and people will start getting pulled over and pulled out for reasons that baffle them.
Rub a shoulder with factory worker in chemical plant and earn good traces of some dangerous chemical on your self. Next big thing is you are a potential terrorist probably making chemical bombs in your house. Follow it by, items like criminal record, no fly list inclusion, problems getting jobs, credit and dozens more problems.
All because your rubbed shoulders with some innocent factory worker while heading home on a crowded subway train. Nonsense!
edit on 10-7-2012 by victor7 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Apollo7
reply to post by getreadyalready
Just microwave youre DL for 20 seconds..destroys tracking device
Originally posted by Apollo7
reply to post by getreadyalready
Just microwave youre DL for 20 seconds..destroys tracking device
Originally posted by lonewolf10
well then, the way to defeat this is to get a tiny spray bottle filled with water and traces of cannabis and gunpowder and go through crowds of people and casually "mist" everyone with it.
when the pigs start pulling everyone that shows positive out for a search, and find nothing, the s will htf.