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sinai	Date: June 2, 2004 @ 11:18 PM is somewhere around the percentage of being struck by lightning. twice.
100thmonk	Date: June 3, 2004 @ 3:19 AM has anyone read "100 years of solitude" by gabriel garcia marquez? this book talks about this p.r. phenomenon sinai is countering. 1984 kind of touches on it too. the war against "them" can be potentially perpetuated forever if necessary by tactics like this. "they" can be anything that the media tells us because we have no actual knowledge of what is going on.
bastardo23	Date: June 3, 2004 @ 12:21 PM has anyone noticed how the whole mess got started and seems to revolve around florida? the supposed twin towers terrorists were even trained there? i would hazard to guess it's closer to home than any of us would like to know. and if you can even accept that suggestion, the odds are higher than we think, but not more likely than if you lived in say, afghanistan, or palestine.. and like you said, probably not much more likely than being struck by lightning
chrismacmanus	Date: June 3, 2004 @ 12:57 PM We used to watch controlled explosions while in the schoolyard, or have to get off busses because of suspect devices left behind, or be inconvenieced by bombscares numerous times a week - compared to those days (not really that long ago), the idea of a terrorist threat coming from the middle east to the UK isn't that great. 100thmonk's gotta point - it's all spin, if George Bush (and his media buddies) can convince everyone that he has a personal crusade to save everyone from the terrorist threat, then he'll be more than happy to take his afternoon naps in the oval office for another term (providing he doesn't have a fatal accident with a pretzel/mountain bike/segway)
bastardo23	Date: June 3, 2004 @ 1:13 PM oh my...
sepidman	Date: June 22, 2004 @ 4:10 PM i have more chance of being starved to death by my own country than i do of dying in a terrorist attack.
redrasta	Date: June 22, 2004 @ 5:46 PM Can I take an order of SARS with my terrorist attack, please??
sepidman	Date: June 22, 2004 @ 7:01 PM And we can even throw in a mad cow or two for ya.....maybe even some questionable chickens!! they go cheap cheap cheap!
Svensta	Date: June 22, 2004 @ 9:22 PM Normally, I would agree with the 1984 angle, but then... they almost got me, so I tend to be more easily convinced that the numbers are greater than that. Anybody got room in the boondocks for me and mine?
chrismacmanus	Date: June 23, 2004 @ 10:15 AM Thought it was quite intersting to read in a news article that the new boss of Shell Oil was echoing the British government's chief scientist's claims that climate change poses a bigger threat than terrorism. Guess who's one of the biggest contributers to global climate problems and is the most reluctant to do anything about it - it's good old Geordie Bush, the one giving off the biggest stink about the threat of terrorism.
figfarmer	Date: June 23, 2004 @ 1:09 PM I was wondering if anyone had noticed the 1984 connection. The Alliance against the Axis. The coalition against the evildoers. I mean, shit, it's more stupid than a kids' game, but the Yanks and the Brits are all revved up against whoever the propaganda machine tells them are the bad guys this week. The plain fact is, the US is most at risk from the illegals coming in from Mexico. If you want to talk terrorism, it has pretty much all come from Saudi Arabia. Iraq has nothing to do with anything, but George Bush was pissed because Saddam made his father look like a fool. Afghanistan has very little to do with anything, but they wouldn't let George and his oil buddies put their pipeline in. As far as Afghanistan being a terrorist training area, as was already pointed out; he would do better to nuke Florida. George Bush is crazy and the American public is foolish to allow him to continue using public money to but arms and oil from himself to wage war with.
xtreme99	Date: October 5, 2004 @ 3:11 PM Sounds to me like you guys got it is all figured out...sucks that the global conspiracy you speak of keeps intellectuals like yourselves from running things. The world would surely be a sweet butterfly loving fluffy wad o' peace if you were all in charge. Doh! Wait, reality check, you're all dolts. Here's a little question for you all, since mathematics seem to be the poison of the day. How much would a single air detonated dirty bomb over a major U.S. city impact your laws of averages? Would it bring it down to one lightning strike? Much lower? If it's averages and odds you wish to play, let the games begin. Over the past 25 years the enemy, which is quite real, not a made up piece in some silly game, has established their intent. Sept. 11th was not the first attack on U.S. soil, it wasn't even the first attack on the WTC's. What changed on Sept. 11th was the success rate of their attacks, nothing more. Given what we know their intent to be, and the long track record of such attacks being planned and executed, also the apparent growing ferocity of said attacks, I think it much more likely that I will be struck down by a terrorist than lightning. See, even lightning plays by rules. You can avoid it. But what do I know, I'm just a "stupid American"...yah, thanks Green Day. How friggin enlightening, a bunch of probable high school drop outs bringing the deep truths to the masses. Quick, let me jump on that band wagon, it's a sure winner!
MCCUBED	Date: October 6, 2004 @ 12:56 AM YEAH WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF BEING BORN? YOU ARE A CERTAIN SPERM MEETING A CERTAIN EGG. 1 OF BILLIONS OF SPERM PRODUCED IN A LIFETIME. AND ONE OF 400 OR SO EGGS PRODUCED IN A LIFETIME. SLIM HUH. BUT YOU ARE HERE. THE REASON IS BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH SPERM TO MAKE THE CHANCES OF 1 PENETRATING AN EGG HIGHER. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT PROBABILITY.
povertystricken	Date: October 12, 2004 @ 10:32 PM I'm more inclined to believe the tinfoil helmet conspiracy theories than any media propaganda served up as "truth". I fear rush hour traffic far more than lightning or "terror". Right off the bat, "terror" is a tactic not a physical enemy. So this "war on terror" is a ploy to rape more dollars from the american taxpayers without having any specific enemy, all on the premice of fear. (AKA extortion) And as 100thmonk said can be potentially perpetuated forever. This plan was (in my opinion) in the works before Bush even cheated his way into office, remember the anthrax packets? Originally said to be a foreign attack, later determined to be an american strain...hmmm, who was responsible for that? Did anyone ever hear a name? Had to be someone pretty high in the military heirarchy. And they went after dem. majority leader, and an influential liberal media figure, and the "keep america in fear" game hasn't ended yet. This is a new era for america, one of gross incompetence, vulgar misuse of power, and the onset of a class struggle never before seen in north america. Welcome to the USSA, baby
SlimPhast	Date: October 12, 2004 @ 11:02 PM Talking about terror. Please check out our new and only track 'Scratchin the Surface'.
TameasDust	Date: October 13, 2004 @ 10:44 AM Pretty good if you happen to be right beside the bomb as it goes off or your next in line for a tax audit
pancreaspuppet	Date: November 4, 2004 @ 5:46 AM xtreme, I used to think like you do - conspiracy theories are a fools game, etc. But you need to step back and see the big picture. The argument you're making is one of someone who is looking so closely at the problem that you don't see the cause, or any of the other stuff that goes on on the sidelines. If you want to fight a war on terror (which IMO is a waste of time when there are nations starving to death), why not look for terrorists? Invading Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism, beyond them using it as a way to get Americans behind the war. This war is not against terrorists, it is against a poor scapegoat country who happens to think differently to US. This is the price they pay. No wonder UK and Australia were so quick to join the stupid money-hungry bloodthirsty bandwagon - any step out of line and you get stamped with "Anti-American" which is a media-constructed load of horse-shit. Innocent Iraqis have died in multitudes that have exceeded September 11 by at least tenfold. Isn't that enough? Have they had their revenge yet or are their pockets still only half-full? Now they are selling off Iraqi corporations to US shareholders and stealing the little infrastructure that is left after they bombed it to bits. Innocent people are dying for no reason. After it happened to you on 9/11, how can you support the same violence inflicted on another nation? Have some fucking compassion.
bLINK2005uk	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 1:45 AM ur more likely to be crushed to deathed by a overwieight american in hong kong
flamingpyro	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 4:01 AM haha who in their right mind would WANT to attack wisconsin... oh man lets go blow up some cows (cause thats all we have here)and scare the bajeezers out of the farmers... sounds like a hoot a to me!
FrozenFlame44	Date: January 17, 2005 @ 4:00 AM Pretty high, im in cali near a base lol
johnnygnote	Date: January 19, 2005 @ 2:53 PM If you really want to know, look here. http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc530.html http://www.eaves.org/blog-archive/000100.html
johnnygnote	Date: January 19, 2005 @ 2:55 PM Here's another good one, http://www.robinwood.com/Democracy/GeneralEssays/GenEssayPages/FearNRisk.html

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