The Obama administration's decision to crank up airport security for passengers traveling to the U.S. from 14 nations has triggered a backlash of complaints from Muslim and privacy groups who say President Obama's response to terror threats amounts to little more than racial profiling.
But defenders of the policy say it's a carefully targeted way of zeroing in on those travelers most likely to pose a threat, and that hurt feelings shouldn't really matter after the United States narrowly averted, by sheer luck, a deadly midair bombing on an airliner heading to Detroit on Christmas Day.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday criticized practically every initiative the Obama administration has taken in the wake of the failed attack on a Northwest Airlines flight. The ACLU scolded Obama for announcing he would suspend the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to Yemen, for suggesting the no-fly list should be expanded and for subjecting passengers from 14 nations to additional screening.
It comes pretty close to across-the-board profiling of Muslim travelers," said Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "Usually after these kinds of incidents you see some knee-jerk reaction. ... It's often, 'Let's let Muslims pay the price for this one because we can't think of anything else to do.'"
But given that almost all terror plots these days are driven by Islamic jihadist beliefs, proponents of the extra layers of security say profiling, done carefully, is not necessarily a bad thing.
Of COURSE it's not a bad thing!!! I am so FREAKING sick and tired of these liberals with their heads in the clouds. Who in the world do they think are planning and carrying out these attacks? The people I mentioned in this post and so many like them? It's time to face the fact that being politically correct can and will cost lives...lots of them. It's time to face the fact that profiling can and will SAVE lives...lots of them.
How can they be more worried about the rights of terrorists than the safety of the citizens of the United States of America?? Psssst...all you libs out there. I'll let ya in on a little secret. I'll say it nice and slow so you understand.
THEY. WANT. US. DEAD.
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I'm beginning to think that as long as we on the Right are dead, the Left doesn't care if they are also dead.
ReplyDeleteWell my friend, I'm afraid you're right. Anything to destroy us.
ReplyDeletePolicy makes a lot of sense. To not profile is just stupid. Maybe they will change their minds once one of our cities gets nuked.
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