The latest news in the “War on Terrorism” is the NSA Phone Records Confiscation. The reason being given for this invasion of privacy is that it is necessary to combat the war on terrorism. Sadly, many Americans feel that it is o.k. for this violation of rights to occur in the name of “protecting” U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks.
Even more sad is that there are more people who die each year from lack of health care than from terroists attacks. Approximtately three times more people in the United States die each year as a result of not being able to obtain the necessary health care than died in the single terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on Septebmer 11, 2001.
The Citizens Healthcare Report, a government initiated working group to study and report on health care in America, acknowledges that Health care services are not available to everyone, and millions of Americans can’t afford to pay for health care services even when they are available, and these problems are getting worse.
So are we more at risk of dying from disease and malnutirition…….or from terrorist attacks?
The answer is obvious.
While the regime that is currently at the helm of running the United States focuses most of our money and efforts on combating terrorism and degrading our civil liberties, more and more people are suffering and dying as a result of not being able to access much needed services to sustain a quality of life. Basic human needs are a right outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the U.S. is a signatory.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 