I am not afraid of terrorism,
 and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf.
 Please start scaling back the official government
war on terror. Please replace it with a smaller,
more focused anti-terrorist police effort in keeping
 with the rule of law.

 Please stop overreacting.
 I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts.

I accept that. I am not afraid.



   Nearly 800,000 people have died in car accidents
 in the last twenty years. During that time there have
 been exactly two Islamic terrorist attacks on U.S. soil,
 with less than 3,000 total fatalities.

 That’s more than 200 TIMES as many Americans dying
in their cars as at the hands of Islamic terrorism.
And yet …


    We’ve turned the whole world upside down
in response to the two terrorist attacks.

 We’ve launched invasions, created vast new bureaucracies,
 shredded the Bill of Rights, compounded regulations,
spent hundreds of billions of dollars, and disrupted travel and commerce.
But no one is suggesting that we do 200 times as much to
address the driving risk, which is 200 times greater.


Terror warrior's,  I am not a pacifist, I just seek a
 proportional responses to threats.
In my life I have learned to accept a possibility of
harm that cannot reasonably be prevented.

Be reminded that Terrorism is a strategy used by the weak
 to goad the strong into self-injurious overreaction.

So please I hope  to give this wisdom to our leaders
 in Washington  to stop the consistent overreaction to
 the threat of terrorism


For I am Not Afraid
 Best wisdom for all of you and yours in the new year
Your pal Mike