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Americans: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Just Not About Terrorism

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by David Franke * LewRockwell.com

Television’s Adrian Monk had it right. You scaredy cat Americans have a lot to be afraid of, so start making up your list of phobias. Monk had his list, and it was long – 312 fears in all.

Just don’t include terrorism among them. I don’t recall Monk ever mentioning a fear of terrorism. Fear of milk, fear of ladybugs, fear of harmonicas, fear of food touching on his plate, yes. But don’t worry – you can be more rational than Monk in compiling your list. I’m going to give you a list of 18 types of fatal accidents and killings, and 41 health problems and diseases that are more of a real threat to you than terrorism. My sources are the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and its National Vital Statistics Reports. You can’t get more Establishment-vetted than that.

Oh, I think you should be concerned about terrorism – just not obsessive-compulsive about it. And most Americans do seem to be obsessed about it. That is no accident. Since 9-11, the Bush and Obama administrations have done everything they can to make Americans so scared of terrorism that they are willing to give up their freedoms and their Constitution for supposed security at the hands of government bureaucrats. (And, thanks to Edward Snowden’s revelations, we know how much they can do to us law-abiding citizens, and thanks to the Boston Marathon bombings, what they cannot do despite those powers – namely, prevent terrorism.)

First, how many Americans have died because of terrorism?

Americans’ attitudes about terrorism can be accurately separated as pre-9-11 and post-9-11. That is understandable. The horror of 9-11 is forever ingrained in our memories, with 2,997 Americans dying at the World Trade Center, in a Pennsylvania field, and at the Pentagon.

To get perspective, I went to Wikipedia’s “List of Terrorist Incidents in the U.S.,” now appearing as “Terrorism in the United States.” It may not be completely accurate, but it’s the most exhaustive listing I can find, and a few omissions will not alter my overall thrust.

I considered only incidents since the beginning of the 21st century, because of the centrality of 9-11. I found 87 incidents or planned incidents. Motivations included jihadism, white supremacist and anti-Jewish ideologies, animal rights and anti-abortion extremism, and unknown motivations.

Of these, 15 incidents resulted in 3,046 American deaths inside the U.S. – 2,997 (98%) on 9-11 and 49 (2%) in the other 14 incidents. Once again, the emotional impact of 9-11 is obvious. But all 87 incidents or planned incidents are important because “terrorism” is always front-page news and the feds use all of them to instill fear in the populace, no matter how many are FBI entrapments or the daydreams of delirious (and hapless) wannabe saviors for a cause.

When we factor out 9-11, there have been 49 deaths from terrorism since then, or an average of 4 per year. We will see how that compares with deaths from injuries and deaths from health problems and diseases. It will be obvious how minor a threat terrorism has been (apart from 9-11).

continue article at LewRockwell.com:

http://lewrockwell.com/franke/franke29.1.html



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    • Ahura Madza

      When the Twin towers fell on 9-11, Osama Bin Laden won the war.
      And he claimed he had nothing (personaly) to do with it.
      The over reaction to that event was completly contrived to achiev the results we are no seeing.

      • crabby

        an he was telling the truth..

        • Omerta

          Now he is POTUS. Wake up America.

      • MAC JAM

        Dick Cheney – Donald Rumsfeld – Papa Bush and there masters won, ( the American people lost)
        Osama Bin Laden had nothing really to do with it he was used as a scapegoat and his family ended up with building contracts all over the middle east. The Bin Laden family and the Bushes are the best of friends and business associate, the Bin Ladens privet jet was one of the only aircraft allowed to fly in the hours fallowing 911 along with a few other elites that flew in for the show.

    • Anonymous

      Hastings brakes were disabled then the accelerator paddle was electronically hijacked. Someone didn’t like him.

      They is a way to escape it, but I ain’t telling you.

      • Mover

        You forgot the bomb.

    • justiceday

      People dont realize not only what the US military is capable of but the kinds of criminals they have enlisted!

      http://www.theusmarinesrape.com/FaceBook.html

    • WarIsARacketbySmedleyButler

      What everyone needs to be aware of is these people usually stage events around specific time frames such as April 10th – April 21st. There have been numerous historical events between those dates. Some are so obvious I feel I don’t need to name them but a few would be the Oklahoma City Bombing (false flag), Columbine, Hitler’s Birthday, The Boston Marathon Bombings (false flag), etc. Some argue Columbine was a false flag but I personally haven’t done enough research to come to that conclusion. The point is, it is a fact of reality that the government orchestrates evil events like this and has no value for American life and human life in general.

      Now the Illuminati Card game that came out in 1982 has 2 cards, one with a black president called “Backlash” and another with a picture of a boy scout called “Boy Sprouts.” You may ask why this is significant? Well that card game had a card with 2 skyscrapers bursting in to flames, called the ‘Terrorist Nuke’ (9/11). There is a card that shows the pentagon being attacked with a nuke called ‘Pentagon.’ There is a World War 3 card, a Assertiveness Training card (militarizing the police or population), a ‘Bank Merger’ card, and ‘Epidemic’ card, etc, you get the point. These cards seem to eerily predict the future.

      The Boy Scout Jamboree that happens every year has been moved to a new location for the first time in the events history. It has been moved to Summit BECHTEL Reserve in West Virginia. Those of you educated on the matter know that Bechtel is one of the prime corporations involved in furthering the American Empire and Imperialism, and vicariously the Illuminati agenda. Refer to John Perkins books ‘The Secret History of the American Empire’ and ‘Confessions of An Economic Hitman.’ The Boy Scout Jamboree takes place July 15th – July 24th. Again this time span coincides with a lot of significant historical events such as the July 20 plot to kill Hitler, The Vatican making a truce with Nazi Germany, The Aurora Colorado Shooting, etc. There are over 50,000 people that attend the Boy Scout Jamboree. I believe there may be some kind of false flag biological attack that may be blamed on Iran as a patsy for war or to usher in Martial Law and bring about the End Game for America. We are literally one false flag attack away from Martial Law and complete Fascism. Of course no one wants this to be true but I personally do not believe that everything in life is just one coincidence after the other. I predicted to a few of my friends that an event like the Boston Marathon Bombings would happen around the week it occurred. I just looked at history. It was clearly the most obvious false flag event in recent history, in my opinion. Prepare yourselves and your families. If nothing happens that that is great and the very least your family will be prepared for a natural disaster or some other disastrous event.

      Link to the 2013 National Scout Jamboree Website.
      https://summit.scouting.org/en/Jamboree2013/Pages/default.aspx

      Link to the Illuminati ‘Backlash’ black president Card.
      http://atruthsoldier.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/backlash.jpg

      Link to Illuminati ‘Boy Sprouts’ (Boy Scouts) card.
      http://s.ecrater.com/stores/58244/4c2bb7eb90641_58244n.jpg

      Article on how the FBI has been behind a majority of terrorist attacks.
      http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/terrorist-plots-helped-along-by-the-fbi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
      I used a mainstream media article because most people can only accept mainstream media as reality….sadly. You can find articles about this all over the web that are legitimate. You know it’s bad when even the mainstream media has no choice but to actually be truthful.

      Two pertinent quotes;

      “Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance.”
      -Albert Einstein

      “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
      -George Santayana

    • MG

      Ahura you like everyone in the world have been mace the fool. This is why you all are represented as idiots on TV. It’s because you all are.

      9-11 has 0 to do with terrorism.

      The disclosure project sent then GW BUSH and the Pentagon a letter that stated they intended to open the books and find the missing money. In May 2001 they went public with 400 NSA, CIA, TOP BRASS and other black ops agencies and went on to talk about Aliens etc.

      BUT in their ignorance they also stated they were going to find the missing money. “100′s of millions of lost money” that they intended to open CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS.

      That was the shot across the bow that sent all the agencies into high alert as their concerns weren’t about the ALIENS it was about the fact the money trails would led to the drug wars for weapons and black ops funding.

      On 9-10 Rumsfeld in response to the Disclosure Projects 10 year investigations announced there was “2 Trillion” dollars missing. NOT 100′s of thousands as Steven Greer and thought.

      9-11 they took out the money trails in the towers, the investigation info in tower 7 and the computers that held the info about the missing money in the pentagon.

      Zeitgeist is a cover up. It always has been.

      SO YOU THINK THEY’LL ALLOW THE NSA TO GO DOWN?

      As Cheney has warned. They will use a pulse to ctrl alt del the entire nations computer systems to cover up what they’d been doing.

      There is no limit to what they will do to cover up their doings.

    • WarIsARacketbySmedleyButler

      The NSA was intended to spy on Americans all along. There were forerunners to these huge computer databases going back decades. We live in a system, a matrix if you will, where our reality is force-fed to us by repeated lies since birth. The tv is the greatest brainwashing tool ever invented. Paper money is the greatest tool for enslavement ever created. The system of enslavement is perpetuated by debt controlled by a nation’s Central Bank who is in turn part of a larger global banking cartel that work in unison. Virtually all the information you have been given about this world since birth has been given to you in some form by your government. And I’m not even just talking about America’s facade of Democracy. All nations have a system like this, even in the Communist and authoritarian states like North Korea. Some are just more blatant than others. Some, like our illusion of Democracy, is a clever illusion of subterfuge and brainwashing. The mainstream media helps perpetuate this system. Those in the media who try to deviate from this system or expose it are dealt with like Michael Hastings or suppressed. War is the most profitable business on the planet almost all wars are preceded by lies to galvanize the support of a public that would otherwise not support sending their sons and daughters to die in foreign lands.

      “I didn’t say it would be easy, I just said it would be the truth.”
      -Morpheus

      “That you are a slave. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”
      -Morpheus

      “The Matrix is a system. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”
      -Morpheus

      I hope you all see reality some day and free yourselves.

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