11-17-2010, 03:19 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Central...KY that is
Posts: 39,517
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Originally Posted by glatt
There were 13,531,058 commercial passenger flights in 2008. If you take that number and multiply it out over the last 8 years, when security had gotten a lot tighter since 9/11, you get about 100 million US flights since 9/11 with not a single plane taken down by terrorists.
The tightened security since 9/11 has worked. Not a single plane has come down. 100 million!
The numbers are not a compelling argument that we need these new extremely invasive security techniques.
Our founding fathers wouldn't be able to recognize us. What a bunch of pussies this country has become. We are so afraid of an infinitesimal risk of terrorism that we are willing to give up all our personal freedoms.
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You prolly should work in there somewhere the number of planes hijacked/taken out from American soil also. You know, to justify all this extra security. I don't know how to begin to come up w/that number, but, I bet it's comparably small.
paraphrasing:
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Those who would give up freedom for security deserve neither.
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Where did I see that? The Cellar?
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