At 11:06 AM 6/3/02 -0700, you wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Joe wrote:
I'm sure there is a bit of randomness
involved, but that's for the non-Arab,
non-Muslim flying contingent.
As much as you may not like to, you have to admit that 100% of the
9/11 hijackers were Arabs and Muslim so people that fit that description
are going to be closely checked for a long time to come, PC or not. I
know you don't like it, neither do I, but you can blame the Arab Muslim
extremists and not the airlines for that.
Ok, I didn't want to have to make a thread about this, but...
You may not like it, but 100% of the guys who blew up the Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City were White and Christian. So how come we aren't
insisting on checking the backgrounds of every white Christian that tries
to rent a U-Haul or buy fertilizer?
Have you tried to buy Ammonium Nitrate lately? I GUANANTEE that anyone that does is
going to get a very thorough background investigation. I used to buy the stuff for
$.05/pound but now my nursery supply company won't even order it. The same with
sulfur.
Speaking of OK City and McViegh, the US Army solders are now being CLOSELY scrutinized
and many of their rights are being violated (a lot more than the Arab Americans).
That's not fair to them but it's being done none the less.
(Sounds like de ja vue, right? It is, I've said this before.)
Welcome to
the New America.
Wouldn't Joe McCarthy love it!
Is it not ironic that the FBI headquarters building in Washington, D.C. is
named after J. Edgar Hoover, one of the most un-American people ever to
be called an "American"?
I agree 100% on that one!
Joe