States
Friday, July 1 2011
Forbes on the TSA
[15:21:09] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia “Until 2001, far fewer Americans were killed in any grouping of years by all forms of international terrorism than were killed by lightning, and almost none of those terrorist deaths occurred within the United States itself. Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer, or severe allergic reaction to peanuts.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf (Portable Document Format)
It's nice to see articles from publications that Important People read, even if this one's in the blog section:
http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/06/30/time-to-close-the-security-theater/
[15:21:09] matt [wronka.org]/Psi.dementia “Until 2001, far fewer Americans were killed in any grouping of years by all forms of international terrorism than were killed by lightning, and almost none of those terrorist deaths occurred within the United States itself. Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer, or severe allergic reaction to peanuts.”
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv27n3/v27n3-5.pdf (Portable Document Format)
It's nice to see articles from publications that Important People read, even if this one's in the blog section:
http://blogs.forbes.com/artcarden/2011/06/30/time-to-close-the-security-theater/