Furthermore...

So, I recently read that a prominent member of Senator and Chairperson of the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence (the Legislative Branch's highest and most secretive committee) Diane Feinstein's staff stated that the ban on extended magazines for assault-style weapons is "do-able" because once the old, pre-ban magazines are used up, they won't be able to be replaced and will be thrown away.  I can't cite the article, and I can't name the staffer, but if this is true, then Sen. Feinstein is surrounding herself with even dumber people than I would have imagined.

Now, this is the woman that has stood up and said that the NSA's illegal spying on ALL US citizens is just and needed to combat the threat of future terrorist violence against America.  This is the woman that fought tooth-and-nail to keep past weapons bans in place during the Bush administrations.  More distressing, this is the woman (and the sort of people that will replace her when she is gone) that we are trusting our future to, our personal and private information with now, and whom we voted for to protect our rights and freedoms in the past.

As I said earlier, I'm rapidly becoming convinced that the propaganda that is pouring forth from D.C. is so replete with lies and falsehoods that nothing we have been told over the last twenty-odd years can be trusted at all.

Every fact, figure and tiniest bit of evidence that has been delivered up to convince us that the actions of the government are justified are now 100% in doubt... even by their own admissions.  Take this list for example...

From the National Safety Council:

– You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack

– You are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack

– You are 11,000 times more likely to die in an airplane accident than from a terrorist plot involving an airplane

– You are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack

– You are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack

– You are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack

–You are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack

–You are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack

–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist

–You are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack

– You are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack

Does this bring it home, or what?  I've been thinking about this list for the better part of a year... and I am still amazed that it hasn't made a bigger splash than it has.  We all know that flying is the safest means of travel there is... which is 11,000 times more dangerous to me than a terrorist attack... yet my personal freedoms and privacy are thrown away more and more every day to protect me from a terrorist attack?  Even my ability to travel in a timely and convenient manner have been sacrificed to "security" at the airport, the bus depot and the train station.  Even the very police that are employed to protect me are a greater threat to me than a terrorist!  Eight times greater!!!  How can this be, and the country is still silent to the lies that we are still being told on a daily basis?

What is it going to take to fix this?  I am struggling to see a way out of this mess... and I see nothing but more of the same.