Sombody Has to Say It

The American Civil Liberties Union is upset that in light of the recent NW Airlines bombing attempt, the Obama administration has issued guidelines that suggest airport personnel be suspicious of young, unmarried muslim men from nations that openly sponsor terrorism.

"Using national origin or religion as proxies for suspicion is nothing less than racial profiling," the organization said in a statement.

“Yep. What’s your point?” I respond. Racial profiling is exactly what we need to do. Why is that a forbidden term? Here's another statement we should make: "We torture terrorists. We interrogate, incarcerate, isolate, water-board, deprive, humiliate, injure, maim, disembowel, horrify, and torment anyone found trying to terrorize Americans. So think about that before you volunteer for another mission to kill us." When did we become so politically correct that we would rather see thousands of our fellow countrymen murdered than violate the sensibilities of the people who want to murder them? Have we abandoned all common sense (he asked rhetorically)?

If I squint hard enough, I can almost understand the argument that we unfairly discriminate against a certain group of people if we categorize them by traits like racial background, religious beliefs, weight, shoe size, choice of preferred music genre, etc. But when, oh.. say, about 100% of the terrorists in the last decade share a common characteristic, maybe we should treat it as a clue. And if people were going around trying to mass murder Americans in the name of Christianity I would be the first to stand up and shout:

“This group is falsely claiming to represent my religion but instead perverts it. They do not represent my beliefs. I condemn their actions and would gladly surrender some of my civil liberties in support of stopping them, defending my faith, and protecting my fellow countrymen ”.

I don’t hear this kind of outrage coming from mulslims. All I hear is whining that our efforts to protect ourselves are offensive. Here’s an insight for them: Killing my fellow citizens in the name of Allah is offensive to me! What are you doing about it?

It’s amazing how we Americans allow ourselves to be manipulated by guilt. It’s time we declared war on political correctness and started standing up for logic and common sense.