Earlier today I listened to tornado sirens blare and watched a dark red “storm cell” that had every possibility of sprouting a tornado pass directly over my neighborhood. Coupled with the incomprehensible tragedy that struck Myanmar a week ago, I feel it’s the perfect time to share an article that explores the total ridiculousness of hyping terrorism when natural disasters hold a much greater threat.
The article I’m sharing was written in response to the storms that decimated Myanmar. An estimated 50,000-100,000 people may have died from the storms, and yet all we hear is that there’s a very real possibility we will be annihilated by terrorists, so we should spend over HALF of our government’s budget taking proactive measures against this so-called, but unsubstantiated threat.
In October 2002, George W. Bush said “…facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.” Well, I’m no national defense expert, nor am I a meteorologist, but I think it’s the funnel clouds we should really fear.
Deadly Cyclone Puts Terror Hype In Perspective
By Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet
Wednesday, May 7, 2008The deadly cyclone that has hit Burma could eventually claim around 50,000 lives - the equivalent of seventeen 9/11’s - and yet in the face of such tragedies that befall the planet on an almost monthly basis, we are constantly lectured that the contrived fear of terrorism - a threat less dangerous to Americans than peanut allergies or accident-causing deer - is reason alone to let control freaks completely re-engineer society and change our way of life.
Listening to the steady drumbeat of government proclamations, you’d think that there were terrorists lurking around every street corner ready to slit our throats or detonate suicide bombs, yet in reality the only “terror attack” directed against westerners in the past near-three years was the comical ‘dumb and dumber’ “Glasgow airport attack,” as it was billed by the corporate media, which consisted of two semi-retarded morons setting fire to a Jeep Cherokee, driving it into a window, and hurting only themselves in the process.
This has nothing to do with any success on the part of the Bush administration or the British government in “fighting terror” since 9/11, the same pattern can be observed throughout the latter half of the 20th century, when the notion of “terrorism” first began to take on its modern incarnation.
The truth is that we are a trillion times more likely to die from a heart attack, a road accident or even a freak weather event, yet we don’t spend all day worrying about it or changing our way of life to accommodate for it, as the control freaks that use the contrived fear of terror demand we do to combat the hyped threat of Al-Qaeda.
The menace of global terrorism has been labeled the greatest threat to western civilization since communism and yet swimming pools, peanuts and lost deer kill more Americans every single year. Why are our governments facilitating the terrorist’s agenda by hyping a peril that simply does not exist?
The number of Americans killed as a result of international terrorism since the 1960’s gives us a benchmark from which we can correctly identify and target other dire dangers to our very way of life.
- Allergic reactions to peanuts
- Accident causing deer
- Lightning strikes
That’s correct — all of the above have killed an equal number of Americans since 1960 as terrorism. One could even categorize M&M’s, lost deer and the weather as an “axis of evil arming to threaten the peace of the world,” as George Bush famously once said.
As Ohio State University’s John Mueller concludes in a report entitled A False Sense Of Insecurity
“For all the attention it evokes, terrorism actually causes rather little damage and the likelihood that any individual will become a victim in most places is microscopic.”
