Okay, when they searched Rumsfeld, I thought that was crackers, but I avoided posting. I mean what's next, the current SecDef?
They've searched grandmothers and toddlers, all of it ridiculous. They've put full-body scanners in at the expense of dogs (that are better at detecting explosives). They refuse to profile activity, which should be a no-brainer.
Now, we find out they do have an ax to grind: with white, middle-class America?
Looking for places to cut government spending? I propose DHS security specialists at the airports. Honestly, this should be done by individual airports or by the airlines. There has to be a way of motivating people to care about security instead of political correctness. As long as this "security" is federalized, the next attack is just a matter of time. Most of the TSA folks could not survive in the real world. If TSA were shut down, the job market would suddenly be filled with Paul and Paula Blarts.
They've searched grandmothers and toddlers, all of it ridiculous. They've put full-body scanners in at the expense of dogs (that are better at detecting explosives). They refuse to profile activity, which should be a no-brainer.
Now, we find out they do have an ax to grind: with white, middle-class America?
In the course of the 10 minute clip, a myriad of different behaviors are characterized as terrorism, including opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.
Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Asian or Arab. Imagine if the video had portrayed every terrorist as an Arab and every patriotic snoop as white, there’d be an outcry and rightly so, but this strange reversal must have been deliberate on the part of the DHS, but why? Is this merely political correctness taken to the extreme or is something deeper at work?
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the DHS’ own internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists, such as Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests that are largely the domain of white middle class Americans.
Looking for places to cut government spending? I propose DHS security specialists at the airports. Honestly, this should be done by individual airports or by the airlines. There has to be a way of motivating people to care about security instead of political correctness. As long as this "security" is federalized, the next attack is just a matter of time. Most of the TSA folks could not survive in the real world. If TSA were shut down, the job market would suddenly be filled with Paul and Paula Blarts.