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Well airplane accidents also are far less fatal than car accidents. Still you see the effects of one and the measures taken to avoid them. ALl a matter of perception.

Terrorism has been made into an issue by the neocon administration as a way to grab power.

People's voting reasons are more than just street safety. Certain places also became areas where the rule of law is suspended. In these conditions, voting reasons become a more complicate thing than just left/right. We can even discuss the view people have about democracy in certain places.

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)

by ValentinD (walentijn arobase free spot frança) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 06:36:18 PM EST
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Define "take measures." Measures are not taken to avoid airplane accidents which include having the secret police go through the airlines' confidential computer systems to look for cost-cutting on maintenance. Airline executives are not picked up by the secret police and put in a dark hole for months on vague, non-specific charges that the secret police suspects that they may be tampering with the safety margins on their airline's planes. The very notion is absurd. Yet such measures are taken against "terrorists" (read: Random brown people).

And airline safety wasn't high on the agenda in the last couple of election campaigns that I witnessed either, so the attention paid to it seems far more in line with the magnitude of the actual problem.

- Jake

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 07:13:42 PM EST
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