By Austin Anderholt | United States

Ever since 9/11, the American public can’t stop talking about terrorism. According to a gallup poll, 58% of Americans were somewhat or very worried that them or their family might become a victim of terrorism. this is astoundingly high considering the fact that the average american has a 1 in 3.8 billion chance of being a victim of foreign terrorism. Americans, rather than being afraid of highly improbable threats, should be worried about a newer, much more dangerous terrorist organization: their own government.

Read this excerpt from an article published on Telesurtv.net :



“So far, the conflict in Afghanistan has resulted in between 106,000-170,000 civilian casualties, according to the March 2015 report “Body Count.” The report, authored by a group of doctors and medical experts, estimates the total death toll of the broader U.S. War on Terror as over 1.3 million. The report only focused on deaths in conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, and excluded U.S.-led military operations in countries such as Libya, Somalia and Yemen. The report’s estimate puts the death toll of the War on Terror at well over 300 times the number of dead from the initial September 11 attacks.”

Think about that. Name one terrorist organization that has killed 1.3 million people. The American government has killed well over 300 times as many civilians trying to avenge a terrorist attack than in the initial attack, and people only care about the initial terrorist attack. Why? Because to the American public, terrorism only matters if the government isn’t behind it.

Take the Oklahoma city bombing, for example. This attack killed 168 people and was labeled as domestic terrorism. Ironically, this attack (while totally wrong) was in response to another terrorist attack, which occurred a year earlier: The siege of the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas, which also killed hundreds. So why is it, that only one is seen as domestic terrorism and another is pushed away and lesser known, especially as an act of terrorism? Again, because of the false notion that governments can’t be terrorists, especially the American government.

One may claim that governments are incapable of committing such actions.

We must remind ourselves of what a government simply is. A government is nothing but a group of coercive individuals with the ability to “legally” plunder and abduct. Just because we live in democratic mob rule doesn’t mean we don’t live under tyrannical rule. The government doesn’t have any excuses for why they kill innocent people.

I’m sure that at least some of the 1.3 million civilian casualties from the war on terror were on purpose, but let’s pretend they were all on accident. If a civilian commit 1.3 million counts of involuntary manslaughter, don’t you think that they would be punished? For some reason, government isn’t.

Government is also the master at fooling it’s citizens into obeying genocides. Ever wonder why citizens go berserk when a terrorist attack happens but when governments kill millions and millions in genocides, such as the holocaust, gulags, and other events, it seems like no one is fazed.

Furthermore, the American government has killed and imprisoned an astounding number of peaceful, innocent individuals. 86% of the 2012 federal prison population was in there for victimless crime. I again ask you. What would happen if a citizen started locking people in cages for doing something that said citizen disagreed with? That would be lunacy! Why does the state get away with it?

The September 11th attacks was the most violent terrorist incident in recorded history, killing almost 3,000 people. Governments consistently systematically kill more people, be it through wars, genocide, or “law enforcement”. The American government in particular consistently murders millions of innocent people. It should not be pledged to by our youth. It should not be loved. It is a terrorist organization and should be treated as such.

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