Because, when you look at the figures, they're kind of screwy...
According to the U.S. State Department, 1995 was a near-record year for terrorist murders; it saw three hundred worldwide (two hundred at the hand of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka) compared to four hundred thousand smoking-related deaths in the United States alone.
- The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
Look at the figures: if the 'war on terrorism' is really about deaths and the threats to people, why are cigarettes still sold? What is the war on terrorism really about, then? Do you even care?
Watch your freedoms wither and suffocate
Beneath the manipulations
Of ten thousand corporations
Don't think that begging
Will pardon your errors of judgement...
- The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
Look at the figures: if the 'war on terrorism' is really about deaths and the threats to people, why are cigarettes still sold? What is the war on terrorism really about, then? Do you even care?
Watch your freedoms wither and suffocate
Beneath the manipulations
Of ten thousand corporations
Don't think that begging
Will pardon your errors of judgement...