rory calls for immediate complete withdrawal from U.S. highways: death toll unacceptible in a free nation allegedly at peace with itself

Well leaving that question aside for the moment [and please no smartass comments about rory's drawing], how ‘bout some frickin’ stats people? Every day 120 people die violent deaths on the highways of the United States. Our vehicles are roadway bombs, improvised killing devices, weapons o' mass deestruction. The casualty rates are staggering. 47,200 died violently in 2005.
That’s close to the killed in action total for U.S. troops over the entire course of the Viet Nam war. Only takes about 20 days for the death toll to reach the total number of U.S. service people killed in Iraq over the whole course of that clusterfuck so far. Disabling injuries in 2005? 2.45 million of ‘em. The cost in dollars of the deaths, injuries and property damage? $245 billion dollars for one year. Where’s the fucking press conference about the war on highway death? The car makers who foist roll-over prone-small-car-killin-roof-collapsin’-global-warming-petroleum-over-consumption-units and the oilagarchy obviously care less than a frickin’ vole turd about the carnage on the roads. It would be disruptive of the economy, of the frickin' amerikun way of life, of countless satellite industries feeding off the human road kill like flesh-eating bacteria. And why oh why, rory frickin’ wants to know are some deaths big news and other deaths no news? Wait a minute. Certain fantasy deaths are bigger news than certain real deaths. There’s gonna be yet another fucking press conference about Bird Flu preparations. How many Americans have died of bird flu? Zipfrickin'ola. Snortin’ Gale Norton suckraterror of the interior is gonna edumocate the pube-lick about avian flu. You can go to the White House site right now and submit a question to this oilwhore who has strapped on the biggest smoke spewin' environment fuckin' schvantz of any of her ilk, i.e. suckruterrys of the inferior. Here’s my question. It's a relatively simple one: “What the fuck?” Scientists quoted in today’s New York Times say that the fuckin’ avian flu probably ain’t gonna even be a pandemic anyway. rory sez fuck this avian flu bullshit.
When are we gonna start preparing for the human roadkill pandemic? Oh and by the frickin' way, how many deaths were there last year as a result of terrorist attacks in the U.S? That’s fricking right: 47,200 fewer than deaths by motor vehicle. Rory's gonna say it again. Dead is dead. Dead is dead whether you are broken, squashed like a bug under a boot, incinerated while trapped, or otherwise wasted in a vehicle on a U.S. highway or whether you are shot by an insurgent, terrorist, or U.S. Postal Service worker. And the juxtaposition of Homeland Security blathering about, while not really preparing for, avian flu, while 120 people are violently removed from earthly existence on the highway and hundreds more disabled everyday while nothing is said would actually be completely frickin’ comical if so-called-innocent-people [will someone please define "innocent" for me] weren’t dying and suffering so much. Funny how the prezdent keeps talking about how it’s his job to protect us. Only from the truth. Obviously the mass media is complicit in this one, as well. If the death and injury tolls were posted every day like they are for Iraq, if pictures of the highway carnage were printed, broadcast and posted like war pictures, public support for driving would evaporate. And we would immediately withdraw from the highways. At this point, there is no other rational solution. We must put an end to this senseless carnage. We must stop driving and get the fuck off the highways.


some facts and figures on motor vehicle carnage
some facts and figures on war casualties