Be a courageous
The threat of terror is a prime example. If you could, for one moment, disconnect from believing the version of reality that the media is pounding over your head every single day and take a dispassionate look at where the threat of dying from a terrorist attack falls in the "real" version of reality, you'll see you are deliberately being lied to about the "real" threat of terror. And it's being used to justify the construction of an entire police state system to supposedly protect you from it. One statistic that should be on the RED ALERT section of the chart below is the fact that 783,936 people die every year in this country from prescription drugs! That means you are 16,400% more likely to die from popping extremely dangerous "legal" pills than from being killed by a crazed, Islamic fundamentalist terrorist.
If our leaders really cared about our welfare, they would be putting the terror threat into it's proper perspective, not hyping it all out of proportion to justify the wholesale elimination of all the liberties and freedoms they claim to be protecting. Just think about it. IT MAKES NO SENSE. It makes absolutely no sense to claim you must give up your liberties and freedoms in order to keep them. They are messing with your head big time. YOU ARE BEING LIED TO. YOU CAN'T TRUST THESE PEOPLE!
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By Ryan Singel
Sept. 11, 2001 was undoubtedly one of the darkest and deadliest days in United States history. Al-Qaida's attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center killed 2,976 people, and the country recoiled in horror as we witnessed the death of thousands of Americans when the towers fell.
In the five years since that shattering day, the government has spent billions on anti-terrorism projects, instituted a color-coded alert system that has never been green, banned fingernail clippers and water bottles from airplanes, launched a pre-emptive war on false pretenses, and advised citizens to stock up on duct tape and plastic sheeting. But despite the never-ending litany of warnings and endless stories of half-baked plots foiled, how likely are you, statistically speaking, to die from a terrorist attack?
Comparing official mortality data with the number of Americans who have been killed inside the United States by terrorism since the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma reveals that scores of threats are far more likely to kill an American than any terrorist -- at least, statistically speaking.
In fact, your appendix is more likely to kill you than al-Qaida is.
With that in mind, here's a handy ranking of the various dangers confronting America, based on the number of mortalities in each category throughout the 11-year period spanning 1995 through 2005 (extrapolated from best available data).
