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"More than 6 billion consecutive safe arrivals of airline passengers since the attacks on America on September 11th 2001 mean that whatever the annoying and seemingly obtuse airport-security measures may have been, they have been ultimately successful."

The first paragraph of Hawley's opening statement is a complete non-sequitur and doesn't bode well for the rest of his arguments.



The question left unanswered was how many safe arrivals were there before 9/11? There statement in no way proves or even correlates save arrivals.

The Sun has risen every day since I was born, you are all welcome!


I have this magic trinket that prevents elephant attacks. The lack of elephant attacks in the past decade certainly proves that my magic trinket works; would you like to buy it for $10,000,000?




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