Are you afraid of terrorists attacking you or your loved ones

[efhmc]

or our country again?

[Walt Starr]

1. With the Bush agenda tanking?

Of course I am! "Terrorist" attacks are imminent with this bozo about to lose it all.

[efhmc]

6. Are you speaking literally or figuratively?

[rwenos]

2. Yes, I'm Afraid -- Gotta See it for What it Is

The terrorists are truly evil individuals. Bush is riding this unfortunate truth to political heaven.

I live 10 miles south of LAX airport, and a few miles north of the Los Angeles harbor. Lots of discussion around here about dirty bombs delivered in containers on the decks of ships.

All my little family can do is have a disaster plan, which we do.

[efhmc]

11. Okay, now that is true danger and I pray you all stay safe. I just do not

feel personally threatened (except for my individual rights) but that might be because I live in pretty much the middle of nowhere (although much too close to the bush "ranch" and Ft. Hood).

[Cleita]

3. Not as afraid of what they are trying to do to my Medicare,

which I am becoming dependent on, not to mention my SS. If I get killed in a terrorist attack, then I won't have to worry about those things.

[efhmc]

15. Ahh, the wisdom of the wise woman.

Wish there were a million more of us.

[MichiganVote]

4. Not where I live. Meth labs are a bigger threat

[efhmc]

17. What, they can blow and you might get sick from breathing the fumes?

(really?)

[MichiganVote]

24. Bluwing up houses, trailers, pick-up's, theft, murder

A few of the problems of late in the republican county of Allegan Michigan

[efhmc]

35. Well that is certainly a very real scary thing. Where are the authorities

to help with this?

[MichiganVote]

39. Oh they're around. There's the bar in Hopkins, and the Hwy. for speeders

[efhmc]

40. But do they help you and your family and other innocent folk?

[American Tragedy]

43. Those meth people are absolutely crazy.

A bit north of where I live, a couple of them murdered a young child because they thought that she had witnessed some of their illegal activities from down the street. Because, after all, little kids at a glance can easily identify illicit drug production and transactions. :eyes:

[nytemare]

5. Could it happen, yes, am I worried, no

I have some concern of it happening, what with Osama still alive and all. You never know what can kill you, if I worried about terrorism, the cheeseburgers from McDonalds would kill me. It is more likely the cheeseburgers will get you than terrorists. I can decide not to eat cheeseburgers, but there is not too much I can do about terrorists.

:)

[efhmc]

20. Take control of what you can and don't worry about the rest. A great

choice.

[bahrbearian]

7. Well he has done so much to stop them, look at 9-11.

[efhmc]

21. Well that stupidity scares me more than just about anything.

[Solly Mack]

8. No

but not because of anything Bush has done.

In fact, Bush worries me more than anything....he's our resident terrorist, along with his cabinet....a man who defends torture wouldn't blink an eye about harming any American

[efhmc]

23. I so agree with you. He harms America and Americans daily through

his policy of hate and greed.

[Roland99]

9. No. I worry about my car getting keyed by a Fund-A-Mental Christian

[PowerToThePeople]

10. Already being attacked by terrorists

* and his administration.

[efhmc]

25. They have done much more harm to our freedoms and rights than any

terrorists could ever do.

[Horse with no Name]

12. I thought we already had terrorists attacking us

The head of the cabal was just on corporate tv giving us his demands.

[efhmc]

26. When you are right, you are right.

[sui generis]

13. not as scared of terrorists as religious conservatives

working the peasants with pitchforks and torches into a frenzy to come round us up.

[efhmc]

29. Appealing to the most primitive elements seems to work very well.

Great analogy.

[Djinn]

14. not even slightly

even in the last two years (which have seen terrorist attacks up THREEFOLD way to go George looks like you're winning that "war") your chances of being injured or killed in a terrorist attack in the US are smaller than the chances of dying in a car wreck, and industrial accident, domestic violence, etc etc

If you don't spend any time worrying about what you'd do in the event of an anaphalactic shock caused by a bee sting you shouldn't spend any time worry about terrorism either

[Karenina]

62. Shrimp does it to me

even tiny traces they leave in frying oil... I AIN'T givin' up Asian vittles, so I tote an antihistamine. ;-)

Amis tickle me with their "fears." "Turrurism" in every major urban center across the land has been SOP for DECADES. Y'all be a HOOT! :rofl:

[hollowdweller]

16. Afraid of the GOP attacking my pension, insurance and environment.

[all.of.me]

18. it's too late! he's already in office and attacking us daily!

[shayes51]

19. No, there are so many other things that are a real threat.

[Lorien]

22. No

Our government changed America, not terrorists. I have a better chance of being killed by environmental toxins, global warming, or an idiot Freeper in an SUV.

[efhmc]

31. "Our government changed America, not terrorists." An absolutely perfect

reply.

[stillcool]

27. I fear for the families of the people we kill....

on a daily basis. I fear for the soldiers returning home who have witnessed what no human being should ever have to.
I fear for the children being raised in a society that is morally, physically, and psychologically bankrupt. I fear for what the results will be when people start crashing into walls of reality for the first time in their life.

[Karenina]

63. It's pretty daunting, eh?

:hug:

[sweetheart]

28. Yes, the terrorists in washington DC and GOP HQ

I fear no religious person, as i am one as well. I fear no man or
woman, but i do suspect, that the most likely source of mass murder,
WMD's and terror that will come in to the lives of my family of 6
billion brothers and sisters will come from the dark evil heart in
washington, nowhere else.

[efhmc]

32. Their kill numbers are certainly higher.

[porkrind]

30. By "terrorists", I assume you mean "Republicans"

And yes, they are attacking my and my loved one's country every day. Every day they chip away at our civilization, our standard of living, and our future. Every day the future looks more bleak. Every day there is more meanness and less civility. Every day hatred and violence against the U.S. grows in other countries in response to the Republican plutocracies war-mongering. They are killing America one day at a time.

[efhmc]

33. Can't add much to that perfect statement.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Not at all

The prospect of the U.S. becoming the Western counterpart to Iran is much more worrisome.

The chances of me or anyone I know being attacked by a terrorist is about the same as being struck by a meteor.

[efhmc]

36. Please elaborate on the Iran counterpart thing. I am

reading "Reading Lolita in Tehran" and that is a pretty scary statement. The religious types are just about to take over the government and put the women in veils and take away all of their rights. Oh, joy.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

56. Well, there's a lot more to the Iranian government than women in veils

A Western theocracy would not have old-fashioned Muslim values, but I could see it reverting to Victorian values: women in the home, higher education is too "strenuous" for women and weakens their childbearing ability, the poor are lazy, certain works of art are indecent, as well as requiring that all legislation meet the approval of the conservative clergy (which is the real theocratic aspect of Iran's government).

[pinto]

37. No.

[efhmc]

38. Well, that was succinct and to the point.

[American Tragedy]

41. No. It's an extremely unlikely situation.

It's almost like asking if I'm worried about being eaten by a Grizzly bear. It's possible, to be sure, and it would obviously be terrible, but it's not exactly a high priority fear.

I'm far more concerned about auto accidents. Every single morning on my commute I see wrecks, often causing injury or death to the drivers. Many of the roads were designed decades ago for far lighter traffic, and it shows. There are cracks and potholes in major streets, and one or two lane highways where there desperately need to be at least four. Many roads are painfully narrow and only have a margin of a few inches between the line and a steep ditch, with numerous blind curves and hills. God, I could go on forever.

I don't know anybody who has been hurt or killed in a terrorist attack, but I've known more people than I can count on two hands who lost their lives in automobile accidents, and almost all of them were at least somewhat preventable.

I wish the government would spend a fraction of the amount of money dedicated to anti-terrorism on highway safety and road construction. Statistics and my own personal experience tell me that it would be money well spent. Hell, the United States could sustain numerous terrorist attacks on the scale of the September 11 attack in rapid succession and it would still be dwarfed by annual fatalities from car wrecks.

[efhmc]

42. Unfortunately it is the same for me. My personal experience to a violent

death is my husband's on a west Texas highway. The same type of death that ms bush caused and like ms bush the person received no punishment. I only worry about this happening to others I love. I do not worry a bit about terrorists.

[American Tragedy]

51. I'm very sorry to hear that. How miserably unfair.

:cry:

[BiggJawn]

44. Me personally? No. LIHOP/MIHOP? Ummmmmmm....Maybe! (eom)

[SunDrop23]

45. No.....we get attacked every day by the resident.

[EstimatedProphet]

46. Not unless Bush's ratings drop more, below 35% approval maybe

then he'll schedule another terrorist attack.

[efhmc]

48. Double post. Sorry about that.

[efhmc]

49. I am not so sure that you are just wearing a metal cap. There may be

a great deal of validity in your remark.

[adigal]

47. Nope - we went through 9/11

and after seeing what Bush did with that fear, I will never be afraid again. To tell you the truth, I am more afraid of what Bush and Frist will do with the Senate and our civil rights than I am afraid of being personally attacked by terrorists.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

50. Yes...every time Herr Busch and his NeoCon minions retire to....

...Crawford for secret meetings.

Those people are the REAL terrorists...when is everyone else going to wake up and realize what's happening?

[e75]

52. yes the Bush cabal specifically

I am also very concerned Bush and the PNAC gang will attack us again, this time with nukes or biowarfare. Actually they did use some biowarefare lasttime with the anthrax, though I think the next time many people will perish. They will want to pump up the base something frightful, while scaring into silence those of us who know what is going on.

[jayfish]

53. No -NT-

Jay

[chlamor]

54. Cuts in Medicaid-Cuts in Education-Terrorists ARE attacking every day

:think:

[mitchtv]

55. yes, White Christian terrorists

biggest fear
second fear gang violence from the areligious punks that prey on gays and older folks but if I can't keep my pension and mrdical insurance, i might as well die.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

57. Yes, I assume some veteran of this Iraq debacle

will probably pull another McVeigh.

[walldude]

58. Well considering the odds of me being killed

by a terrorist are about the same as me being killed by a safe being dropped on me by the Coyote I'd have to say no. Although I do think if Bush's numbers drop any further we'll probably get "attacked" again

[Zhade]

59. Yes, I don't like the government attacking us.

Of course, those institutional terrorists attack all of us every day - death by a thousand cuts.

[Willy Lee]

60. No. What scares me is this flipping administration.

Really. They scare the shit out of me.

:scared:

[slackmaster]

61. No

I have far more immediate and pressing concerns like getting killed in freeway traffic.