01-16-2004, 05:35 PM
I think you touched on this wank, but the act really shows that the US is fearing terrorism, and thats what they want. These security measures can only be in place in the US (keyword searches that wha mention earlier), and yet all the terrorist groups the US has singled out are not American.
According to the US department of justice the homocide rate is 5.5 per 100,000 people in 2000 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm). According to the US beruea of the census projected to jan 16 the population is 292,392,203 (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock). I divided the population by 100,000 then multiplied by 5.5. I got 16,081 as the amount of people who were murdered. Compared to 9-11 which killed over 3 000. If you ask me the US should be more concerned with that.
According to the US department of justice the homocide rate is 5.5 per 100,000 people in 2000 (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm). According to the US beruea of the census projected to jan 16 the population is 292,392,203 (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/popclock). I divided the population by 100,000 then multiplied by 5.5. I got 16,081 as the amount of people who were murdered. Compared to 9-11 which killed over 3 000. If you ask me the US should be more concerned with that.