Trey Smith
But the reality is Americans really don't have much to fear when it comes to terrorism. Every year for the past decade, more people have died from slipping in their bathtubs just here in the United States than have been killed by Islamic terrorists worldwide...which has to be making bathtub manufacturers a little nervous.
~ from Obama Breaks the Golden Rule on Drones by Thom Hartmann ~
This is what constant fear mongering has wrought: Westerners are terrified of something that impacts almost no one! It's like when some of us were children -- we were scared of monsters under the bed or in the closet. Our fear was palpable; the threat was not. The monsters didn't eat us.
Yes, some people have been victimized by terrorist attacks. Some lives have been lost or irreparably harmed. Only a fool would deny this. But the number of people worldwide that have suffered directly from acts of non-US terrorist aggression is very, very small (the number from US-sponsored terrorist aggression is very large). As Hartmann points out, more people in the US have died in their bathtubs. The number of terrorism victims pales in comparison to US fatalities from lightening strikes, vehicular accidents, cancer or AIDS.
Yet, what frightens the vast majority Americans the most?
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