[citation][nom]tsmatthx2[/nom]Actually its 99.99999% lol. Good try though. Just check the NDSLE reports, haha I mean seriously omg lolz x 2 lol. Tell that to my phd btw lol I mean wow, you people are so cute with your forums lol.I like the spin from 99.999% terrorists to % of deaths, which are totally the same thing...? haha not my fault muslims are horribly inefficient, like your forum michael mooreism lol[/citation]
No, they're not, I don't know what else to tell you but I'm sure you'll just resort to more insults anyway so whatever. Your number is obviously false and silly, as it would imply there are 10,000,000 islam terrorists per non-islam terrorist, it's so obvious you're pulling this number out of your rear it's painfully transparent. Just as an example, the Japanese Christian terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo alone has a membership of approximately 1500 people (as estimated by the Japanese gov't), this would imply for just this one group there are 15 BILLION muslim terrorists for you number to be accurate, this is 10x the number of actual Muslims on the planet (and 2x the number of people). All you have to do is simply go to the national couterterrorism center and look at the numbers and estimated group size to figure this out. Yes, there are a lot of muslim terrorists and make up the majority of terrorists, but there are also a lot of environmental terrorists, anarchists/political extremists, right wing radical terrorists (who happen to be responsible for the majority of terrorist acts in the US BTW), and of course, the drug dealing organizations that plague mexico, central america and SE asia.
And as far as the michael moore comments, I consider him and his true believers just as bad as the ditto-head true believers. I am Libertarian, not left wing big gov't (in fact quite the opposite). I consider the so called conservatives to be ridiculous hypocrites. They pretend they want small gov't but all they do when they get in power is grow the parts of gov't that they happen to like, rather than actually shrinking it all and giving power and choice back to the people and states.
It's not that I'm against these scanners, I'm against the gov't mandating them and getting further involved in private industry and our private lives. I actually want smaller gov't, not larger, I don't want the gov't holding my hand every step along the way in life. If people want greater security on their flights, then let the airlines decide if they want to put them in and pay for the cost of the additional security through increased ticket prices. On the other hand, airlines that are 'less secure' and implement smarter and more cost effective security measures will be able to have cheaper tickets. This way you can CHOOSE which one you want, if you're afraid of brown people, you can go on the more expensive full body cavity search airline, and I can go on my cheaper 'lower security' airline. Yeah maybe the lower security airline has a 1 in 15,000,000 chance vs a 1 in 60,000,000 chance of the high security airline of something happening but if its 100$ cheaper, give me the lower security, I'll take the risk, that's free market and freedom of choice. Gov't mandates remove our freedom to choose by forcing me to live they way you fearful cowards (who are playing right into the terrorists hands) want to and forcing me to pay for your fears.
This isn't about racial profiling or treating everyone equally while hugging trees or any other reason you're imagining why I'm irritated about this. This is about the gov't mandating and forcing things upon me that I feel are irrational and not worth the cost. I say, let the free market decide, if people that want to fly higher security are willing to pay, let them and the market will accommodate them, if I want to take more risk and fly lower security more cheaply, let me.