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Originally Posted by skunk4u
Would you say the same if you lived in the USA?
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Most certainly, they have an even bigger liar in charge.
Think about this sensibly for a moment, taking the USA as an example. Given the size of the country, unless there are a great many terrorist attacks all over the country at the same time, probability dictates that you are not likely to be affected. Your risk will obviously be higher if you live in a big city like New York, but any risk is going to be spread across all big cities.
Even if there is a sharp increase in the number of terrorist attacks across the USA, that would still be a fairly low number. Factor in the fact that you would have to be in geographical proximity of an attack, and then even if you are there you also have to be a victim, the odds really haven`t increased by a meaningful amount. An event suchj as 9/11 may have caused an enormous loss of life in a single incident, the probability of being in that incident is negligible.
So yes, while you are technically correct that at the moment there is more risk of being killed in a terrorist attack, statistically the risk isn`t worth considering as an individual.
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Originally Posted by skunk4u
At the end of the day as far as I'm concerned I don't care about innocent terrorist. I know full well that 'Big Brother' under no circumstance will be watching me. I know there will be no 'House arrest's' as far as me my family and I guess all of CF are concerned.
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For now you may be correct, but the whole problem with this issue is that it rapidly leads to a very slippery slope.
I have sitting on my bookshelf a copy of The Anarchist's Cookbook which I bought in the local Waterstones. Saw it sitting on the shelf and thought it would make interesting reading, which it does. That doesn`t mean I have any intention of following their instructions for blowing up bridges, bombing cars or the like.
I`m not sure about the UK, but I`m pretty sure that in the US at the moment that would be enough to get me arrested on terrorism charges (material useful to a terrorist).
We've allowed our politicians to whip up such a climate of fear that simply owning a book, in some circles, could be seen as just grounds to suspect someone. If we don`t watch the situation very carefully we will end up with a situation where you could be detained simply due to your choice in reading material that can be bought in any high street bookstore.
One last point, I`m sorry to shatter any illusions you may have but Big Brother *is* watching you. Echelon doesn`t discriminate.