Can We Get Back on Topic - Please
I started this thread out of my concern of the media ignoring such things as Islamic terrorism and gang violence, in favor of coverage of the murders of Dr Hiller and Caycee Anthony. I apparently expressed my concerns poorly.
How do we get our leaders and the media to focus on the real problems facing us rather than the sensational. I deplore Caylee's death, but have also posted that far more resources were expended on this death by Orange County, the FBI, outside search teams, etc. than any other ten deaths combined in this area and possibly more than all other murders combined in Orange County last year. This was the result of nationwide media attention. Without question, many other murders could have been solved with a fraction of the law enforcement effort put into Caylee's death.
The very real problems facing us are (1) gang violence (accounting for many if not most of the murders in the US) especially increasing gang violence by the Mexican Drug Cartels; and (2) Islamic terrorism, that accounted for the deaths of 9/11, many attempted acts of terror frustrated by our intelligence services and the FBI, and recent acts of terror such as the shooting of an Army private at a recruiting center in Little Rock.
Increasingly, prison inmates are being converted to a radical view of Islam. What should we do about this? The potential of terror is almost unimaginable. What would happen to the economy of Central Florida is bombs we set off simultaneously in Disney, Universal Studios, Sea World and Wet n' Wild? Imagine the effect of bombs going off in ten Wal-Marts nationwide.
I do not know the answers, but suggest it should receive serious consideration from all of us.
Just my thoughts.
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