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December 09, 2004
No cure for stupidity
It's true. 99.9% of liberals give the rest of them a bad name.
Get this from "Armed Liberal" at Winds of Change:
I've never been to Israel, but pretty much every one I know who has gone there says it is a nation full of bad drivers.
In 1997, Israel had 530 motor vehicle fatalities. In 2002, Israel had 525 motor vehicle fatalities.
Assuming this rate as a baseline, in the 42 years between 1961 and 2003, there would have been as many as 21,000 road deaths in Israel. (I'll stipulate that this number is doubtless pretty high)
Just as a comparison, according to the Department of State publication I cited earlier, there have been approximately 381 deaths in Israel caused by Palestinian terrorism form 1961 to 2003.
But...I doubt that a government in Israel (or the United States) would fall - would be voted out of power - because of traffic deaths. Even though each of those deaths is as wrenching to those close to the person who died.
So what's different enough about deaths from terrorism (as opposed, say, to deaths in traffic accidents) that they occupy such a central place in our political dialog? Why will we marshal the resources of a country to battle terrorism while we - largely - ignore other issues which may cause more deaths?
Only a liberal could compare dying in a traffic accident to being the victim of deliberate, cold blooded murder. Why should Charles Manson be in prison, or Son-of-Sam? Why did we go after Ted Bundy and Jeff Dalmer? According to the liberal point of view, what they did was equal to running a stop sign.
Armed liberal? If brains were gunpowder, this liberal couldn't blow his nose.
Posted by LindaSoG at December 9, 2004 07:51 AM