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Friday 26th of April 2024

9/11 The US now has 13m citizens with permits to carry concealed firearms, which is more than 12 times the number of police officers. As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells [Evan] Osnos [author of a book being reviewed], the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby. The fall of the Twin Towers followed a decade of sharply declining crime rates and lower gun sales. Suddenly there was a new paranoia of terrorists to exploit. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 11, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
By the numbers 1 in 3,408 chance of choking to death on food 1 in 3,640,000,000 chance of being killed by a refugee in a terror attack BBC, September 20, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers An August analysis by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, using data from multiple sources reached a similar conclusion [to the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism], finding that since 1992, 219 people have been killed in attacks by “nationalist and right wing terrorists”; 23 were killed by “left wing terrorists,” including 13 since the start of 2016. Wall Street Journal, September 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers [T]he odds of being killed by an immigrant terrorist of any kind, let alone a Muslim immigrant, are one in 3.6 million. Vox.com, October 27, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say My regret with Timothy McVeigh is that he did not go to the New York Times building. Ann Coulter, who later clarified the remark, saying, “Of course I regret it. I should have added, ‘after everyone had left the building except the editors and reporters.’” © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say This not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war at all. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies, Satan, would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country: the United States of America. Rick Santorum © 2015 Kwiple.com
Democracy The combination of a would-be authoritarian and a major crisis can, therefore, be deadly to democracy. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die  [because of “rally ’round the flag” effects] © 2018 Kwiple.com
E-commerce Amazon said on Wednesday that it was reviewing its website after a British television report said the online retail giant's algorithms were automatically suggesting bomb-making ingredients that were “Frequently bought together.” New York Times, September 20, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Facebook Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. And still we connect people. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good. Andrew Bosworth, Facebook vice president, in a memo leaked to the press, which caused many employees to begin a witch-hunt to find and punish the leaker and to delete potentially controversial comments or newsworthy messages © 2018 Kwiple.com
Globalization We see repeatedly that when people anywhere are desperate, people everywhere are at risk. In a world where pandemic disease spreads from one continent to another in the span of a few hours, where terrorist attacks are more random and frequent, and where political crises trigger mass migration, it is in our collective interest to fight against the daily reality of poverty, sickness and frustration. Bill and Melinda Gates, Wall Street Journal, September 16-17, 2017 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Iraq Packers say But no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld © 2015 Kwiple.com
Liars say Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered. Kellyanne Conway, lying about a massacre that never happened and was never attempted in order to justify Trump's ban on Muslims © 2017 Kwiple.com
Punt returners say Vad i helvete pratar du om? What the hell are you talking about? Det fanns ingen terroristattack. There was no terrorist attack. Swedes, responding to Donald Trump's February 18, 2017, claim there had been a terrorist attack in Sweden the night before, adding, for emphasis, “Sweden! Sweden! Who would believe this? Sweden.” © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Terrorize doctors who perform abortions © 2015 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Never fjorget Said of Trump's imaginary terrorist attack in Sweden © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Never Remember Said of victims of the Bowling Green Massacre © 2017 Kwiple.com
Resisters say When a terroist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of leaders will use that to suspend your rights. During your fear and your grief you have to mobilize and protest for your own rights because the Reichstag fire is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. You cannot let that trick be played. Timothy Snyder, referring to the 1933 fire in the German parliament building that Nazis blamed on Communists and used to justify mass arrests of their political opponents © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie Appreciate the congrats for being right about radical Islamic terrorism Donald Trump, on the June 12, 2016, mass shooting in which 49 were killed and 53 wounded at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, a really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them their rights. They didn't talk. They were terrorists. It's over. Saddam Hussein portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You know, Hezbollah is very smart. They’re all very smart. Hezbollah and other terrorists portrayed by Donald Trump after Hamas invaded Israel  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest Saying “Soldiers of God” aren't motivated by religion © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Terrorists and criminals have privacy rights too; protecting them is how we protect you © 2016 Kwiple.com
Terrorism America's debate over how to uproot Islamist terrorism is as much about defeating political enemies at home as it is about coping with ground realities in the Middle East. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 21, 2015 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism In the CSIS [Center for Strategic and International Studies] study of 893 terrorist incidents on US soil between January 1994 and May 2020,  only 22 of the 3,086 deaths due to terrorism were caused by left-wing groups. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Terrorism The more fear you make, the more loot you take.  Lex Luther, Superman's arch enemy © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism Terror is the given of the place. … Body dumps are seen in El Salvador as a kind of visitors' must-do, difficult but worth the detour. “Of course you have seen El Playón,” an aide to President Alvaro Magaña said to me one day, and proceeded to discuss the site geologically, as evidence of the country's geothermal resources. Joan Didion, Salvador © 2017 Kwiple.com
Terrorism They are heavily armed with M16 rifles, pistols, butcher knives, and often all three, and they take obvious pleasure in causing pain: beating people; breaking anything  breakable; stealing; torching cars and homes;  destroying food, water tanks, and solar panels; and shooting in the air — and sometimes not in the air. They have a standard formula that has been repeated in village after village: “You have twenty-four hours to leave. If you don’t, we’ll be back to kill all of you.” David Shulman, New York Review of Books, December 21, 2023, describing the 593 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian farmers and shepards in the West Bank in the first half of 2023 alone, which are ignored by police and Israeli army occupiers © 2023 Kwiple.com
Terrorism Two-thirds of its [America's] terrorist incidents last year were carried out by homegrown extremists from the far-right. That rose to 90 per cent in the first five months of this year. Edward Luce, Financial Times, September 10, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you want to end the violence, end impeachment. Lindsey Graham, advocating reducing violence by right-wing domestic terrorists by letting their chief inciter go scott free © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say  Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East? Matt Gaetz, 1:48 PM – Jun 1, 2020, after Trump called antifa terrorists © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Please remove your cats and pronouns from your Twitter profiles. Because when I’m Trump’s next attorney general, I’m adding you to the domestic-terrorism watchlist. Mike Davis, president of the Article III Project (A3P), 7:06 PM – Apr 7, 2023 © 2018 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism. Jeremy Joseph Christian, at his sentencing hearing for stabbing two people to death and wounding a third who tried to intervene when he was shouting racist and anti-Muslim slurs at two teenage girls © 2022 Kwiple.com