Truthout will be posting several articles about the Department of Homeland Security in September. The articles will not be in praise of DHS. While I'm sure most of the articles will be about screw-ups or over-zealousness by DHS, the fundamental issue remains one of risk. As the first article states, you're more likely to be murdered than be killed in a terrorist attack. Between 1980 and 2005, terrorists killed 3,178 people in this country; the Oklahoma City and WTC events accounted for 3,130 of these. Compare these numbers to the 500,000 that were murdered in the U.S. in the same 25 years.
The article will be diminished if you read the comments. There are truly some strange people out there.
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