When the hell is one Democrat going to stand up and accuse

[randr]

the Repugs of aiding and abetting the enemy?

[gateley]

1. We're too chicken. Although, I can hear Grayson saying it. nt

[mike_c]

2. which "enemy" are you talking about?

Americans are their own worst enemy, IMO-- the real enemies are corporations and the political leaders they've bought and paid for. One of their most successful and long-lived ploys is convincing us that we have external enemies. People will stand in line to be oppressed if they think they're threatened by outside "enemies."

[randr]

11. If you were on or had a loved one on that plane

you would know who the enemy is.
Why they consider us their enemy is open for debate.
Lets not be in denial about whether there are people out there who want to do us harm.
We have enough denial on the other side about this whole issue.
Our internal enemies are another matter all together although they feed on each other IMHO.

[robdogbucky]

15. Oh, please....

"...Lets not be in denial about whether there are people out there who want to do us harm.
We have enough denial on the other side about this whole issue..."


Don't Be Terrorized
You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder

"...What about your chances of dying in an airplane crash? A one-year risk of one in 400,000 and one in 5,000 lifetime risk. What about walking across the street? A one-year risk of one in 48,500 and a lifetime risk of one in 625. Drowning? A one-year risk of one in 88,000 and a one in 1100 lifetime risk. In a fire? About the same risk as drowning. Murder? A one-year risk of one in 16,500 and a lifetime risk of one in 210. What about falling? Essentially the same as being murdered. And the proverbial being struck by lightning? A one-year risk of one in 6.2 million and a lifetime risk of one in 80,000. And what is the risk that you will die of a catastrophic asteroid strike? In 1994, astronomers calculated that the chance was one in 20,000. However, as they've gathered more data on the orbits of near earth objects, the lifetime risk has been reduced to one in 200,000 or more.

So how do these common risks compare to your risk of dying in a terrorist attack? To try to calculate those odds realistically, Michael Rothschild, a former business professor at the University of Wisconsin, worked out a couple of plausible scenarios. For example, he figured that if terrorists were to destroy entirely one of America's 40,000 shopping malls per week, your chances of being there at the wrong time would be about one in one million or more. Rothschild also estimated that if terrorists hijacked and crashed one of America's 18,000 commercial flights per week that your chance of being on the crashed plane would be one in 135,000.

Even if terrorists were able to pull off one attack per year on the scale of the 9/11 atrocity, that would mean your one-year risk would be one in 100,000 and your lifetime risk would be about one in 1300. (300,000,000 ÷ 3,000 = 100,000 ÷ 78 years = 1282) In other words, your risk of dying in a plausible terrorist attack is much lower than your risk of dying in a car accident, by walking across the street, by drowning, in a fire, by falling, or by being murdered.

So do these numbers comfort you? If not, that's a problem. Already, security measures—pervasive ID checkpoints, metal detectors, and phalanxes of security guards—increasingly clot the pathways of our public lives. It's easy to overreact when an atrocity takes place—to heed those who promise safety if only we will give the authorities the "tools" they want by surrendering to them some of our liberty. As President Franklin Roosevelt in his first inaugural speech said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself— nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." However, with risks this low there is no reason for us not to continue to live our lives as though terrorism doesn't matter—because it doesn't really matter. We ultimately vanquish terrorism when we refuse to be terrorized."

http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/dont-be-terrorized



Sheesh

[timeforpeace]

3. It is very odd. Something's up.

[PATRICK]

5. Come to NY

We have an entire government here that goes through this supposed parity circus to avoid doing their responsible job or what the public wants. They'd rather be mutually hated and weak than responsible in the right way because they have more important corporate sponsor business to do. It seems a clinging sh&t model that would never deflate until big money gets ripped out of the process. As for their own egos and self delusion it is endlessly greased and self-congratulatory. As one corporate crook once got caught in a sting operation told his compatriots. "The consumer is your enemy, your 'competitor' is your friend".

[spanone]

4. seems like all the democrats have hunkered down in their hidey-holes

[Thickasabrick]

9. And this is new behavior? nt

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. You mean the "Democrats" who are aiding and abetting the same enemy?

:shrug:

[OregonBlue]

7. Guess you didn't read this from White House Communications manager - it's really good.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7358713

[randr]

14. Thanks! This is right on but still

lacks the offensive maneuver to place the repugs on the defense regarding the ability to defend the country and to stand tall for our elected leader when he is doing his best.
We have the opportunity to brand them as traitorous and instead we are still defending ourselves.

[City Lights]

8. Don't hold your breath. nt

[Cleita]

10. Dennis Kucinich does it all the time and he is called a

left wing loonie because of it right here on DU.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

12. Uh, on what grounds? n/t

[OHdem10]

13. Do not hold your breath---Democrats on the Hill go under their desks

at times like these.