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b_b · 5052 days ago · link · · parent · post: Officials Detail Plans To Fight Homegrown Terrorism : NPR
I think the best thing a school could do about terrorism is to show films of Joe McCarthy's HUAC hearing but overdub "terrorist/terrorism" whenever communist/communism is used. This whole thing is so out of control. Is terrorism a real issue for most people's lives?
All of the other things that kill us every day don't garner this much attention (e.g. swimming pools), so we need to ask why is this such an issue? I don't have the answer, but I do know that the war on terror has cost us allies and by some accounts world-wide terrorism increased in its wake. I hate the war on drugs, too, but at least in that case they're addressing a serious problem.