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More Americans are buried alive than are killed by terrorism. What I am about to say is going to be misconstrued by the right wingers here, so I invite you to read the whole post and consider it for at least five seconds before you start coming up with names to call me. But the whole argument about national security and securing our borders is largely tools to get votes and divide us as a nation.
Yes, there are bad people out there who want to do harm to good people. Manchester is the most recent example of that. 9/11 is the example everyone thinks off. Those people who died that day are used for just about every bad policy argument that gets the light of day in Washington. Where I live, I am far more likely to be killed by a meth head's house being blown up than by terrorism. We're all more likely to be killed in a car wreck than by terrorism.
So politicians get to fool you and use you with talk about "securing our borders" which is really more about securing their votes on Election Day more than anything. Use common sense with border patrol and national security. Stop strip searching Grandma when she flies off to see her grandkids. Stop scaring well meaning Americans into thinking that any brown person they see on the streets means to do us harm
Oh, this is the link about being "buried alive." I'm sure it's just more liberal lies.
More people are killed in auto crashes than are killed by murderers ---> therefore we should excuse murderers.
Yes, daddy, I knocked little Sarah's two front teeth out. But Billy gave her a concussion and cracked three of her ribs, therefore I should be excused.
Why do you think CBS or whoever it is does a ****ing all day long tribute to 9/11 every year? It's disguised as patriotism, but it's really just mindless nationalism and an effort to sell explosions. 9/11 has been ingrained into the American psyche; worshiping it like it's a god is basically a form of patriotism, and even me saying this would be me in trouble with a lot of people on Facebook. But let's be real, the mark of patriotism isn't painting your dick red, white, and blue every September. I will not be bullied into thinking it is. The event was tragic; whoring it out is an insult to the memory of those who died, both in the event, and in the aftermath of the so called 'War on Terror.'
The threat of terrorism is real, but it's also exaggerated. Most people have never even witnessed a terror attack. And rather than acknowledging how good most of us have it, we start spitting at each other. Another poster literally called the OP a moron, a move that will go unpunished becasue the OP was a more "liberal" voice (I'm directing that at one mod in particularly; you know who you are). And I don't think it needs to be; it should be put on a pedestal. Not because the OP is a moron, but becasue it shows that real patriotism is dead. He just loves America so much that anyone who even slightly disagrees with the common narrative must be a moron. God forbid more than two opinions exist in the world. Being an American patriot is believing in a persons right to voice their concerns without fear of being called un-American. It is not hanging a flag form your pickup truck.
None of which changes the fact that this game is designed to minimize the threat of terrorism to this country.
No one is trying to minimize the terrorist threat to this country. It's obviously a real threat. No one could possibly deny that. But the fear that is being packaged to well-meaning people by career politicians that every brown person who tries to come to this country means to do us harm is hurting this country as well.
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