Posted on 09/23/2007 10:47:55 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul contends that the federal government has overreacted by limiting personal freedom in the wake of terrorist attacks six years ago, noting more people die on U.S. highways in less than a month’s time compared to the number who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
“We have been told that we have to give up our freedoms in order to be safe because terrorism is such a horrible event,” Paul said today to more than 1,000 supporters who attended a rally at a downtown Chicago hotel ballroom.
“A lot fewer lives died on 9/11 than they do in less than a month on our highways, but once again, who owns the highways? Do we own the highways? No. It’s a government institution you know. …We need to put all this in perspective.”
More than 2,970 people were reported dead in the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Federal highway traffic statistics show an average of 3,509 people a month were killed on the nation’s highways in 2001.
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What about bad shrimp?
I would have asked him why?
Not only that, but if we don’t get terrorist jihad stomped on and under control then there will be MANY attempted 9/11s and much worse. We are fighting not only because of the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocents on that day (significant as they are), but because the terrorists who set that plot in motion truly aim to slaughter us infidels on a huge scale unless/until we submit to them taking over all of the Middle East for starters.... but their glorious new “Caliphate” would not be an end of it, only another beginning of a much larger and more deadly jihad still.
Just let the jihadists start using WMDs in western cities and the problems that the Ron Pauls of the world are whining about today will seem like chickenfeed compared to the enormity of trying to stop all possible future mass casualty attacks. Competent jihadists, with more time and funding and organization, could be killing hundreds of thousands, probably millions, in years to come.
What pinheads like Ron Paul cannot grasp, or are too ignorant to care about, is that there is no earthly limit to the ambitions of terrorists like Osama and al-Zawahiri. 3,000 deaths is just a tiny appetizer in their scheme of things, and complacent liberals and libertarians focused only upon supposed “civil liberties” concerns, fail to even grapple with the vast extent of potential casualties in the future or the vast extent of future wars if we do not get this problem stomped on hard and the jihad obliterated, NOW.
Well, that’s one way of putting it, I suppose.
Drop out, Paul, and do it now!
You can’t PING me to Paul threads anymore. I promised the Mods I wouldn’t participate on them.
Apples and oranges. 3,000 dead and 20 billion dollars in damage over 2 hours compared to 4,000 dead and perhaps $400m damage in fatal traffic accidents over a month.
Ron should also note, there are more people murdered in many large cities in America than die in Iraq on any given day. There were more military deaths during the Clinton Administration than have died in Iraq.
PING!
Ron Paul: a man I used to admire. There can be a better case made for our civil liberties than effectively dismissing the deliberately caused deaths of nearly 3000 people as relatively insignificant.
Oh lest I forget, more people are killed by illegal immagrants each year in this country, than have died in Iraq during the whole war.
APPLAUSE!! Great post!
Why do your roads hate you all so much that they feel the need to attack and kill you?
Yeah and there were that many there in the bombing of New York's World Trade Center on February 26, 1993 which was meant to topple the city's tallest tower onto its twin, amid a cloud of cyanide gas. Had the attack gone as planned, tens of thousands of Americans would have died. Instead, as we know, one tower did not fall on the other, and, rather than vaporizing, the cyanide gas burnt up in the heat of the explosion.
After this happened did conservatives and Republicans demand a Patriot Act?
7-30-1996, WASHINGTON (CNN) --
President Clinton urged Congress Tuesday to act swiftly in developing anti-terrorism legislation before its August recess.
"We need to keep this country together right now. We need to focus on this terrorism issue," Clinton said during a White House news conference.
But while the president pushed for quick legislation, Republican lawmakers hardened their stance against some of the proposed anti-terrorism measures.
Sen. Don Nickles, R-Oklahoma, said the country remains "very open" to terrorism. "Will it stop any acts of terrorism, domestic and international? No," he said, adding, "We don't want a police state,
Hatch blasts 'phony' issues "These are very controversial provisions that the White House wants. Some they're not going to get."
"If they want to, they can study the thing" already, Hatch asserted. He also said he had some problems with the president's proposals to expand wiretapping.
Nobody wanted the Executive powers of a Patriot Act in the hands of a Clinton but is was safe in the Hands of a Bush? Keep that in mind as a Clinton continues to lead in the polls.
The war against the terrorists should have nothing to do with the number of people killed. The fact that they attacked us on our soil with our planes should be a wake up call for even Ron Paul. And the fact that it could very well happen again unless this enemy is dealt with and destroyed should be clear to everyone, especially a man who wants to be president.
What a dangerous man, without conscience.
“We will never have Sharia law in this country UNLESS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES IT. You slander our military, our police, and our citizens by even suggesting that such a thing could happen.”
I’ve slandered no one. Ron Paul and his fellow libertarians slander all of us when they accuse the federal government of stealing their freedom and liberties, when they make meaningless comparisons of traffic accidents and terrorism, and try to make their own government the greater foe.
“Especially in Texas. Here people have guns and are not afraid to (in fact they like to) use them. No terrorists are ever going to impose their lifestyle on us.”
Do you think the armed citizen is a more appropriate response to Islamic Terrorism than the WOT?
BTW, the first step in imposing Sharia Law in this country is convincing the American People to surrender to Islamic Terrorism overseas.
That matters little to the people who died and their families.I don’t give a damn if only three people died, those bastards attacked us and we need to kill them. Apologist like Ron Paul will always have a reason to sit on their hands and do nothing. At present I see little difference between Ron Paul and the Democrats.
Ron Paul joins Jimmuh at the top of the list of bile-spewing treasonous little weasels...and you trail along not far behind licking up the vomitus. Are you too stupid to comprehend the distinction between a chance accidental event and intentional murder? Yes, you are. Are you too stupid to see that lightning happens when it happens, while tens of milliions of Muzzies are planning and working at this very moment to cause the murder of as many Americans and other infidels as they can? Yes, you are. One can only hope that you have a sufficient moiety of intelligence remaining to recognise how ineffably stupid you are and STFU...but I doubt it.
Chris Peden is the best bet at this point.
If you are from the 14th District and interested in taking a look at him, go to
If you are in League City, and want to sign a nominating petition, freepmail me.
What a dweeb.
Democrats kill 3000 innocent babies a day.
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