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Good point. We may also add that no one complained when a church opened up near the site of the Oklahoma city bombing, but a mosque opens a mile away from Ground Zero and the right-wing hacks throw a pissy fit.

Not to mention that the greatest terrorists are the US government and their accomplices in the Military Industrial Complex. War is terrorism...only with a bigger budget.
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Little bitch Paul is afraid of his own shadow.
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Don't forget the torture is good guy, John Yoo, he's not Caucasian but he is a terrorist
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how many people were killed or shot at by dumbfuck government workers in that same timespan?? more cops, more surveillance and more psycho killers = wrong direction entirely. Stop acting like being an establishment centrist is anything but camping out on the pot.
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You'll never find a gang of more sadistic, vicious psychopaths than the members of the US KKKongress and the 1% supremacists who pull their puppet strings, aka our political, business, and economic "leaders." They've killed millions and ruined countless innocent lives. They're the greatest threat the people of this country have ever known.

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
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Why even the need to keep a tally? As if the count greater on one side negates the harm by the other side.
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You could have really cleaned up in Vegas if you had taken the far-right extremists and the points.
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Paul, increasing the power and scope of the police state does not make you safer.

We do NOT need more division, more disconnection, more separation, more segregation - more fear - in response to the same.

We do NOT need a police force already confused by its role in society to be asked to solve yet another type of mental illness and irrational fear-based behavior that they are ill-equipped to handle with their limited set of tools and training.

Increasing the power and scope of police is not a cure for what ails our society. It certainly won't make you safer.

Getting to know the people around you and forming an informed, healthy and responsible community will make you safer.

Connection, not more disconnection, makes life better.

Vibrant, strong and engaged communities are something that Seattle is sadly lacking. It doesn't seem to know how to build or sustain them well or at all.

Seattle often confuses being part of a reactionary group with being part of a community. They are not the same. Community is a shared positive experience; a reactionary group is a shared negative experience.

If people in America could learn how to create and sustain strong, healthy communities, we might discover how to address more effectively those fears of differences that plague the minds of so many people in our society before those fears metastasize into paranoia, hate and violence.

Sure, we need to have ways of interceding with those whose minds and emotions have already been overcome by their fears to the point of them contemplating harm to themselves or others. However, advocating one irrational fear response in reaction to another irrational fear driven behavior only creates more of the same, not real change and not a real difference.
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OMG! 1 death for every 10000000 Americans over ten years!? That is a terrifying number. Not as terrifying as the number of lawnmower related deaths that blow those numbers away but still. When there is real chance I might be brutally beaten or murdered for my iPhone by racist hillbillies in Seattle I'll start to be concerned. Think about that though? 34 deaths? Two more and they'll reach the number shot by sociopathic ghetto clowns in Chicago over 36 hours.
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2, 4, 5 and 8: What the fuck are you people talking about? Paul just pointed out that terrorism isn't exclusive to any one profiled group so maybe we should stop profiling, or at least recognizing that acts of terror can be committed by anyone. He didn't say a fucking thing that can be construed of as an endorsement of the a police state.
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@10

Thanks for mansplaining about the correct interpretation of Paul's post and demanding immediate conformity to the one and only approved response, namely your own, old crusty one.

Now, go probe your own orifices.
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Constant,
It's writing like this that confirms for me that eating 23 spring rolls in under 2 minutes remains your greatest achievement.
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11: I like how you just assume I'm old. I think Constant's point was pretty self-evident for anyone with basic reading comprehension.
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Well the point, dear ones is that we spend a lot of time and resources trying to sniff out terrorists of the swarthy type but no one monitors white hate groups or the individuals who participate in it.

The news and the authorities treat this shit like it is an individual isolated incident but they terrorize people every day.
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@13

Words reveal the mind, not the body.

Inflexible points of view and the need to define right and wrong for all others are not characteristics of an open, creative younger mind.

Feeling prematurely aged, stop thinking and acting like a cranky, crusty old bastard.

Your continued insistence on your point of view being "right" only gives further evidence to your narrow, fixed state of mind.

Creative minds feel free to twist and turn Paul's post to their own designs.

So, is being a narrow-minded, demanding old fart your creative design or unfortunate reality?
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If the gun posts on slog are any lesson, its that its not the number of deaths that have occurred, its that people died and not every possible outcome was outlawed or regulated to prevent it.
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@5 Got your guns loaded and your 4-wheeler filled with survival gear?
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Wow, not only has slog content gone down hill since the $15 keck post/goldy leaving, but comments are just a howling wind of ridiculousness too....
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#15 wow aren't you precious.
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@19

Yes, we are.
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@1: Your first paragraph was spot-on. Your second paragraph was a load of camel shit.
Seriously? War is just terrorism scaled up? War has rules these days; you're not allowed to target civilians, you're not allowed to use biological or chemical agents, and you're required to treat POWs and residents of occupied areas fairly and allow humanitarian access. War is about military domination of an opponent. Terrorism is ENTIRELY DIFFERENT and revolves more around diminishing enemy morale by attacking civilian population and/or assets.
For the record, the Boston Tea Party was arguably an act of economic terrorism. That's right, the Founding Fathers weren't all squeaky clean.

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