Another way the terrorists win is because our science education sucks. [View All]

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People in this country are so fucking ignorant of science, that's easy for our liars in this administration to play the fear card. "They were gonna blow up the plane with a small phial of household liquid and a watch!"

And America stands by and says, "Yup. Saw it in a movie once, it can be done."

And the fear machine rolls steadily on across this great land.

Check out some of the stuff in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1884749

And so many of the things spouted by non-scientists and non-engineers after 9-11 about building demolition.

One of the reasons republicans will never support a viable education system in this country is not only to assure a population of unintelligent worker drones who won't question anything, but also because an ignorant population makes fear a viable control device.