Report: More People Killed By Bees, Drowning In Bath Than From Terrorism

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Independent review of terrorism legislation points to government exaggeration of threat for political gain

Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
June 29, 2012

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An independent review of terrorism legislation in the UK notes that government rhetoric regarding terrorism is “exaggerated for political or commercial purposes” and that many more people are killed each year by bee stings.

The report by barrister David Anderson QC, highlights the fact that the average number of annual deaths as a result of terrorism or at the hands of terrorists in the UK this century is just five.

“During the 21st century, terrorism has been an insignificant cause of mortality in the United Kingdom.” Anderson writes.

“The annualised average of five deaths caused by terrorism in England and Wales over this period compares with total accidental deaths in 2010 of 17,201, including 123 cyclists killed in traffic accidents, 102 personnel killed in Afghanistan, 29 people drowned in the bathtub and five killed by stings from hornets, wasps and bees.”

Anderson also points out that not a single person in Britain has even been injured by a terrorist for over two years.

The report notes that in the year to March 2011, arrests of individuals suspected of being terrorists numbered just 141, the lowest figure since 2001/2. In addition there was only one conviction in a UK court on charges related to terrorism.

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“Those figures compare with a total number of arrests for recorded crime in England and Wales alone of almost 1.4 million in 2010/11, including some 431,000 for offences of violence against the person, 37,000 for sexual offences, 34,000 for robbery and 93,000 for burglary.” the report notes.

The report suggests that the threat from terrorism is hugely over exaggerated and that draconian terrorism related laws should be reassessed.

“Terrorists are first and foremost criminals. Where possible and as a general rule, they should be prosecuted under the ordinary criminal law, to underline the fact that no special laws are necessary for the purpose and to prevent them from glamorising or politicising their offences…” the report states.

“The values of a liberal democracy deserve support from laws against terrorism, but the same values require that those laws be subject to strict scrutiny.” Anderson writes.

The report comes in the same week as a rare keynote speech by MI5 head Jonathan Evans in which he stated that the ‘Arab Spring’ could radicalize British muslims and breed new terrorists, that a dirty bomb attack in the UK was a realistic possibility, that Iranian sponsored terror was a significant threat, and that economic hardship could see the rise of more “lone wolf” terrorists in the vein of Anders Breivik.

As we have previously noted, statistics show that more people die from intestinal illnesses, being struck by lightning, accidents involving deer, and allergic reactions to peanuts than they do from terrorism.

Despite these facts, billions is spent on “homeland security” while Americans are hit with crippling austerity measures. In addition, sweeping laws are undermining core liberties, all in the name of countering a monolithic terrorist threat. Furthermore, research has shown that more people are being killed or putting themselves in more danger owing to the heightened perceived threat of terrorism.

As reports such as Anderson’s continue to highlight, in reality the security industry cash cow is based on little more than hot air and fearmongering. The war on terror, and the onslaught of domestic repression that has accompanied it, is based on the completely phony pretext that terrorists pose any more threat than bowel complications, rare weather events, or wandering animals.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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12 Responses to “Report: More People Killed By Bees, Drowning In Bath Than From Terrorism”

  1. I’d disagree, only because theres a lot of TERRORISTS posing as “doctors”.
    theres a whole lot of TERRORISTS posing as “police” too.
    TERRORISTS are also posing as big-food, big-pharma, big-politicians, and more.

  2. uuuuuuum ……..500,000 people die in just the united states per year from smoking tabacco related illness.

    50,000 die a year in car accidents.

    3000 people died on 9/11

    Be careful on your drive to the market for that pack of cigarettes a plane might crash into you.

  3. I think the biggest terrorist has got to be the mortgage fraud that caused world wide suffering much more than any terrorist act. Not one person has even been charged with a crime for the mortgage fraud that caused the depression we are in now.

    There were watch dogs screaming and yelling as early as 2002 to the SEC and the FBI that systemic mortgage fraud was happening. Things like goldman sachs would alter your mortgage application after you dropped it off to make it look better and get approved.

    Bush took all the FBI agents that investigate wall street and put them incharge of finding terrorists.

    Well the real terrorists were on wall street.

    my2cents Reply:
    June 29th, 2012 at 5:44 am

    In the “08″ market crash the SP bottomed at 666.

  4. Zero deaths in Wisconsin related to terrorism.

    Another drug related shooting in Fitchburg 2 days ago.
    I don’t even want to think about the shootings in Milwaukee or the inattentive witches and their cell phones texting for talking while racing through parking lots or city streets or going 75 on the highway.
    That’s scarey.

    And a really good copper who I admire told me not to worry about drug dealers too much because if they take one off the street that there will be 2 more warming up in the bull pen to replace them.

    Go figure.

  5. Zero deaths in Wisconsin related to terrorism for the last 150 years.

    Another drug related shooting in Fitchburg 2 days ago.
    I don’t even want to think about the shootings in Milwaukee or the inattentive witches and their cell phones texting for talking while racing through parking lots or city streets or going 75 on the highway.
    That’s scarey.

    And a really good copper who I admire told me not to worry about drug dealers too much because if they take one off the street that there will be 2 more warming up in the bull pen to replace them.

    Go figure.

    Vic Reply:
    June 29th, 2012 at 6:01 am

    it’s all about human zombies, they are the plague of this evil empire NWO. They serve for the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ and do not give a hoot about the rest of humanity. Me myslef and I like programmed drone walking in a human body.

    it’s one thing to blame the NWO evil thinkiners, but it’s a whole different ball game when one stops and looks how many servants love serving evil?

    Vic Reply:
    June 29th, 2012 at 6:02 am

    NWO evil thinkers

  6. They’ve already got a global war on bees, Watson; don’t give them any ideas about securing our bathrooms.

    Tractor Reply:
    June 29th, 2012 at 5:36 am

    Ho of Babylon they plan to replace the insect variety with the new worker/drone ex-human model.

    Global bee-ing keepers.

  7. Most hate to spend a buck helping a bum, but don’t mind giving some of their pay to fight terrorism. The bum needs the buck so does the cop that looks for the terrorist, but the cop charges thousands while the bum asks only for the price of a cup of coffee.

  8. the problem is agreeing on the definition of a ” terrorist”

    The NWO has a definition they want us all to be brain washed with?

    so they create the terrorists alquedaCIA source. and if you disagree with corrupt politicians you are then considered a terrorist and put on a black list or no fly list or a hit kill list???

    Maybe the good people of this planet should make a list of evil minds to get rid of???

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