Re: Republican voters will soon be rounded up

From: Frank Bemelman (f.bemelmanq_at_xs4all.invalid.nl)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:08:05 +0100

"David Grant" <NO_SPAM_PLEASE_jmd_2003@msn.com> schreef in bericht
news:KwCJd.136$iD1.21@read1.cgocable.net...
>
> > For terrorists to attack the USA like on 911, thats somehow okay in your
> > book? Is there nothing you would ever do to defend the USA? all war is
> bad?
>
> 9/11 was in no way good. I doubt many people are actually arguing that.
But
> consider below:
>
> Being that this is an electronics newsgroup I'm assuming familiarity with
> the log scale.
>
> Let's define a first magnitude disaster as something that kills half the
> world's population (~3 mil). The return of the Black Death, or a nuclear
war
> could achieve this. Divide by 10 and a second magnitude disaster would be
> something like AIDS (potentially), or a third world war without nuclear
> warfare. Third magnitude disasters would be WWI, WWII, and the Spanish
> influenza breakout of 1918. Fourth magnitude would be the Vietnam war and
> the slaughter in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Another division by
ten,
> Fifth magnitude disasters would be the Yugoslavian war in the 90s, or the
> number of deaths due to famine each year in Ethiopia. Sixth magnitude
would
> be the Israeli-Arab war of 1967. 9/11 was a seventh order disaster by this
> scale. More people die per month by gunshot wounds in the US than died in
> 9/11. Terrorism is simply an over-hyped threat, and is not a concern
worthy
> of very much attention. There are much more pressing issues we should be
> spending our time on.

Thanks for putting it in perspective. Too many things are blamed on 9/11
and the 'hidden' message of the event ignored. Ignored messages often
get repeated, louder and louder. 

-- 
Thanks, Frank.
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