Do you feel safer now that bin Laden is gone for good?

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04 May 2011, 2:10 pm

The question seems to presuppose that his being alive contributed to some level of feeling of being unsafe on my part.

In short, his death (and I have no reason to doubt that he was killed in the circumstances that we have been told) is a newsworthy event that has little impact on my daily life.

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04 May 2011, 2:31 pm

ruveyn wrote:

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I felt safe anyway. Terrorists would only go for London.

Utter nonsense. The go to Spain. They go to the U.S.

ruveyn

Sorry, I'll rephrase.

In England, Terrorists would only go for London.

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04 May 2011, 2:37 pm

I've never felt anything but safe, in regards to terrorism.

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04 May 2011, 5:43 pm

TechnicalPacifist wrote:

I've never felt anything but safe, in regards to terrorism.

+1

I am surprised anyone in the USA feels so ultimately vulnerable to the actions of a very small number of isolated third world extremists. Since a North American killed JFK, over one million North Americans have been killed by other North Americans in gun violence due to a cultural preoccupation with the 'beauty' of the force of arms as a solution to any frustrations life throws up and the outragous proliferation of small arms throughout their society.
Statistically this means they are more likely to die as a result of someone they know behaving with irrational violence than as a result of any 'terrorist' stranger. Then there is the road toll, the high risk of friendly fire if they are involved in their national pastime of military escapades in other peoples countries, the death rate as a result of lifestyle based causes like bad diet etc... I would have thought terrorism was the least of their worries - unless of course it is easier to behave in an emotionally immature and intellectualy lazy and dishonest manner and channel all the anxiety and fear they feel as citizens in the land of the free into blind ignorant hate?

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04 May 2011, 8:17 pm

Simonono wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Simonono wrote:

I felt safe anyway. Terrorists would only go for London.

Utter nonsense. The go to Spain. They go to the U.S.

ruveyn

Sorry, I'll rephrase.

In England, Terrorists would only go for London.

Wait, wasn't there train bombing in Birmingham as well?

We were all chanting that Smith's song over here.

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04 May 2011, 8:18 pm

blauSamstag wrote:

Simonono wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Simonono wrote:

I felt safe anyway. Terrorists would only go for London.

Utter nonsense. The go to Spain. They go to the U.S.

ruveyn

Sorry, I'll rephrase.

In England, Terrorists would only go for London.

Wait, wasn't there train bombing in Birmingham as well?

We were all chanting that Smith's song over here.

Was that close to the university or am I thinking of something else?

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04 May 2011, 9:06 pm

I like having his pelt on the wall on general principle, but don't feel any more or less safe because of it. Then again, I never really felt all that threatened by terrorism in the first place so much as I've felt threatened by the reaction to it.

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04 May 2011, 11:36 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

blauSamstag wrote:

Simonono wrote:

ruveyn wrote:

Simonono wrote:

I felt safe anyway. Terrorists would only go for London.

Utter nonsense. The go to Spain. They go to the U.S.

ruveyn

Sorry, I'll rephrase.

In England, Terrorists would only go for London.

Wait, wasn't there train bombing in Birmingham as well?

We were all chanting that Smith's song over here.

Was that close to the university or am I thinking of something else?

All I know is, anyone around the age of 32 in the USA was certain that it was time to hang the DJ.

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04 May 2011, 11:51 pm

I've never felt even slightly UNsafe due to terrorism.

When it comes to the ignorance, complacency, and insulation of my fellow citizens coupled with the power of my government, I am petrified.

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05 May 2011, 12:04 am

I feel sad that the man never handed control of his life to Jesus Christ. If he had his hatred for the west would have dissipated because of Jesus guiding his very life!

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05 May 2011, 12:11 am

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I feel sad that the man never handed control of his life to Jesus Christ. If he had his hatred for the west would have dissipated because of Jesus guiding his very life!

But he is getting 72 virgins in heaven.

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05 May 2011, 1:43 am

blunnet wrote:

DanielF wrote:

I feel sad that the man never handed control of his life to Jesus Christ. If he had his hatred for the west would have dissipated because of Jesus guiding his very life!

But he is getting 72 virgins in heaven.

Nuns with guns.

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05 May 2011, 11:52 am

ruveyn wrote:

blunnet wrote:

DanielF wrote:

I feel sad that the man never handed control of his life to Jesus Christ. If he had his hatred for the west would have dissipated because of Jesus guiding his very life!

But he is getting 72 virgins in heaven.

Nuns with guns.

ruveyn

Hopefully each with Dillon M134s and an infinite supply of incendiary rounds.

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05 May 2011, 12:11 pm

I don't feel safer because one man has died, I also didn't feel unsafe because this man was alive. One of the benefits of living in a fairly irrelevant region.

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05 May 2011, 5:04 pm

Bethie wrote:

I've never felt even slightly UNsafe due to terrorism.

When it comes to the ignorance, complacency, and insulation of my fellow citizens coupled with the power of my government, I am petrified.

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05 May 2011, 6:20 pm

It is unlikely Osama was mission critical for alquaeda. I think that specially in his last years he probably was delegating most if not all functions to the other leaders in there.

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