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One Chance in 3.64
Billion. So Relax
By Alan Grayson
February 02, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
-The chance that you will be killed by a refugee’s
terrorist attack is one in 3,640,000,000.
The chance that you will be hit by lightning – twice –
is one in 9,000,000. Yes, it’s 400+ times more likely
that you will be hit twice by lightning than that you
will be killed by a refugee terrorist attack.
The latter figure comes from The Google (try it!). The
former figure comes from a September study by the Cato
Institute, a right-wing think tank that I generally
despise. In this case, however, the Cato Institute has
a point. The point, in its own words, is this:
“The federal government has an important role to play in
screening foreigners who enter the United States, and to
exclude those who pose a threat to the national
security, safety, or health of Americans. . . .
[However,] the hazards posed by foreign-born terrorists
are not large enough to warrant extreme actions like a
moratorium on all immigration.”
Someone should tell this to President Chicken Little.
Someone should explain to him that not a single
successful terrorist attack was perpetrated by anyone to
whom President Obama gave amnesty.
All in all, then, one would have to conclude that
President Obama did a very good job of “vetting.”
Better, perhaps, than American Presidential voters did,
last November.
So
if we have a refugee system that actually works –
letting in the good, keeping out the bad – then why
break it? Why shut it down?
To
make people afraid. To instill fear. To fool them into
thinking that they need protection that only President
Trumpf can provide.
That’s Part I of Trump’s scheme. And Part II? I think
that you can discern that from this quotation from
Luftwaffe Commander Hermann Goering:
"Of course the
people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders
of the country who determine the policy, and it's always
a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a
democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a
communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people
can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.
That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of
patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Wag that dog, President Trump. Wag it.
Alan Mark
Grayson is an American politician who was the United
States Representative for Florida's 9th congressional
district and a member of the Democratic Party.
The views
expressed in this article are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of
Information Clearing House.
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