Another bizarre Government-supporter claim is that "You don't know how many terrorist attacks have been prevented by the government; there hasn't been one since '9-11'".
Looking at this claim about all the terrorist attacks that have been "prevented", I'd like some evidence from someone other than the people who gain power or prestige from the newly erected police state. I truly think that if there had been any of these hidden "terrorist cells" in America, they would have struck on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, while people were distracted. That no further terrorist attacks happened is pretty good evidence that there were no "cells".
I don't doubt that there are small groups of angry people plotting death and destruction (there's Congress, obviously), but that doesn't mean they can carry out the plans regardless of the KGB.... oops, I meant "Homeland Security".... violating the rights of everyone else to keep us "safe".
Anyone can make claims about things that didn't happen. I could make the claim that I have prevented asteroid strikes from happening. Using the awesome power of my mind, I have deflected incoming asteroids before astronomers saw them, manipulating the very fabric of space and time, thus saving countless lives, and perhaps even civilization itself. I can point to the fact that there have been no major asteroid strikes in recent centuries as proof of my claim. That claim is about as believable as the government's claim that it has averted terrorist attacks since 2001. I don't believe them either.
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I love the quote from River! I would say that we do have some documented thwarting of attacks on record. There are lists out there for the searching should anyone do a search for them. The ones I remember most vividly being stopped was the planes flying from London and the attack on Fort Dix and the planned attack on the gas pipeline in the northeastern US. I agree that numbers can be inflated and that we have been abused in the name of "national security", however.
ReplyDeleteThere actually were further terrorist attacks--namely, the DC snipers and that guy who tried to shoot up the El Al counter at LAX. Since the government had nothing to do with stopping either of them, they just pretend they didn't happen when boasting of their phantom success.
ReplyDeleteOver 200,000 National Security Letters (non-judicial warrants) were issues since 2003!
ReplyDeleteAnd Bush said he stopped '10' attacks - of those, some were just stupid (liquid explosive on planes -the dumbest terror by movie plot - this is the one USWep actually uses as an example! LoL! ... and were British!)
A small city of citizens abused to find ... less than 10.