Racial Profiling is a Bigger Threat than Terrorism

If this article from Reuters can be believed, racial profiling is a bigger threat to the United States than is terrorism. Does anybody agree with this statement?

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) does.

Reportedly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Justice want to use a set of existing guidelines in their hunt for terrorists. The FBI already use the rules when going after "domestic" criminals, and simply want to apply these rules in cases involving national security.

And, not surprisingly, the ACLU is shrieking that if these guidelines are adopted for terror cases, "a person's race or ethnic background could be used as a factor in opening an investigation," leading to racial profiling.

The DoJ believes these rules will help find and arrest terrorists, preventing terrorist attacks on US soil. If they get their way, the ACLU would prevent the FBI from implementing these rules, denying a tool that the FBI would use to prevent a terrorist from killing hundreds, thousands, or millions of innocent Americans.

The ACLU is willing to sacrifice your life to avoid the possibility that a dark-skinned person with a funny name* might be inconvenienced. The ACLU wants your child to risk being the victim of a subway bomber or a car bomb outside their workplace or shopping mall on their "concern" someone "could" be racially profiled.

The ACLU's executive director, Anthony Romero, said, "Issuing guidelines that permit racial profiling the day after the 9/11 anniversary and in the midst of a historic presidential campaign is typical Bush administration stagecraft designed to exploit legitimate security concerns for partisan political purposes."

Wrong, Tony. Issuing these guidelines the day after 9/11 should serve as a reminder how dangerous is this world we live in, and that we should spare no effort to prevent the next 9/11.

According to a typically hysterical ACLU press release, "[t]hese techniques would allow agents to conduct pre-textual (undercover) interviews, use informants and conduct physical surveillance in connection with First Amendment protected activities."

Egad! The FBI wants to use undercover officers, informants and surveillance to nab suspected terrorists! The horrors. I have news for you Tony, the terrorists want to do more than just survey you, they want to kill you.

And then, there is this canard: "After eight years of historic civil liberties abuses (during the Bush years), the American people know better. " If anyone at the ACLU has had a single civil liberty denied or even infringed upon, please name it.

You know a moonbat when he has a bumper sticker on his car announcing that his freedom of speech is being restricted. Or, when you see a rally on the public square decrying their inability to speak out on the issues. Huh?

This is one of my new favorite red-herrings, from the tellingly-named CommonDreams.org: "in order to bring a complaint about abuses under the PATRIOT Act, a person had to..know that his or her rights had been violated".Well, yeah, I should think that a basic hurdle to showing that you were aggrived would be knowing you were aggrieved.

I wanted to report my house was broken into, but I couldn't tell if there was a break-in and nothing was missing. Say it ain't so!

I think we should send these ACLU whack-jobs to Iran, North Korea, China, or their beloved Cuba to see what true repression is. I have my doubts that a Civil Liberties Union would exist in Pyongyang.

It is especially galling for these lefties to whine about losing their freedoms when, in the crushing dictatorship in Italy, a comedian may be prosecuted for making a joke about the Pope. But, we in the US are being repressed.

But, the ALCU knows what the real problem is: According to the ACLU's Caroline Fredrickson, "Handing this kind of latitude (the new guidelines) to an organization already rife with internal oversight problems is a huge mistake."

Actually, allowing the ACLU to place any restiction on the goverment's efforts to prevent terrorism is the true mistake.



*"They'll tell you he has a funny name..." -- Barack Obama