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Cartoon Text<\/strong><\/p>\n What is Most Dangerous to Americans?<\/p>\n a. terrorists Hazard – Annual Fatality Risk (3) Would you throw your civil liberties and a trillion tax dollars away to be slightly safer from bathtubs? (1) The government and media fearmonger for votes, viewers, and money. Replace hype with cost-benefit and risk analysis.<\/p>\n Bonus<\/strong><\/p>\n An example of media sensationalism was this comment by ABC’s Charles Gibson on the fifth anniversary of 9\/11:<\/p>\n Putting your child on a school bus or driving across a bridge or just going to the mall—each of these things is a small act of courage—and peril is a part of everyday life. (4)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n A rare example of a politician being level-headed about the threat of terrorism was in 2007 when NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg told citizens fretting over terrorism to “get a life” and that they have a better chance of being struck by lightning than by terrorism. (2)<\/p>\n To learn more about the colossal waste of money that the TSA has been read, “How the TSA Kills Us \u2026 Literally”<\/a>.<\/p>\n To learn more about the fantastic absence of rational analysis in America’s continuing response to 9\/11, read the book by John Mueller and Mark Stewart, Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security<\/a> (2011).<\/p>\n Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Ronald Bailey, “How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?” Reason.com, 6 Sep. 2011. LINK<\/a> Cartoon Text What is Most Dangerous to Americans? a. terrorists b. deer c. bathtubs d. home appliances Hazard – Annual Fatality Risk (3) Bathtub Drownings – 1 in 950,000 Home Appliances – 1 in 1,500,000 Deer Accidents – 1 in 2,000,000 Terrorism (1970-2007) – 1 in 3,500,000 Would you throw your civil liberties and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[507,20,520],"tags":[522,349,590,403,539,530,544,404,448,408,529,533,525,543,519,538,540,536,537,535,541,481,591,534,521,542,437],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-media-bias","category-terrorism","tag-bureaucratic-bungling","tag-cartoon","tag-civil-liberties","tag-comic","tag-fear","tag-fearmongering","tag-government-waste","tag-illustration","tag-infographic","tag-libertarian","tag-media-criticism","tag-media-critique","tag-mortality","tag-overspending","tag-political-cartoon","tag-probability-neglect","tag-scaremongering","tag-security-theater","tag-security-theatre","tag-sensationalism","tag-statistical","tag-statistics","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorism-hype","tag-terrorism-risk","tag-threat","tag-yellow-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/suburra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nBathtub Drownings – 1 in 950,000
\nHome Appliances – 1 in 1,500,000
\nDeer Accidents – 1 in 2,000,000
\nTerrorism (1970-2007) – 1 in 3,500,000<\/p>\n![\"Terror,](\"http:\/\/www.suburra.com\/images%20-%20PD%20blog\/graphics\/TerrorandMoneyWEB.jpg\")
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\n2. Sewell Chan, “Buzz Over Mayor’s ‘Get a Life’ Remark,” NYTimes.com, 6 June 2007. LINK<\/a>
\n3. John Mueller and Mark Stewart, “Hardly Existential: Thinking Rationally about Terrorism,” ForeignAffairs.com, 2 Apr. 2010. LINK<\/a>
\n4. John Mueller and Mark Stewart, “Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security,” 1 Apr. 2011. LINK<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"