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Modem Butterfly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 11:54 AM
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I think it's time to consider racial profiling
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Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 11:56 AM by Modem Butterfly
We in the US have lived under the shadow of terrorism long enough. I am all in favor of civil rights and civil liberties, but it's time we dropped the "politically correct" pretense that no one group in America is any more dangerous than any other. We all know it's bullshit, we just pretend that it's okay. There is one group that is responsible for 90% of the terrorism that our nation has encountered, and that is white men.

From the early days of Reconstruction, when white men openly formed terrorist cells designed to frighten and intimidate African Americans, and later Catholics, Jews, union organizers and voter rights activists, to modern terrorists like Paul Hill, Timothy McVeigh, Ted Kaczynski and Eric Rudolph, white men have been responsible for the majority of terrorism here in the US. Statistically speaking, if an act of terrorism has happened in your home town, a white man was responsible for it.

I think to begin with, we should be suspicious of any white man carrying a package or dressed warmly, particularly when I think it isn't cold enough. And I think we should be especially suspicious of any white man who adheres to the Xian religion. Not all white, male Xians are terrorists, but enough of them have been that it's fair to say that white, male Xians should certainly be watched. We should also keep an eye on places white males congregate, such as sports bars, Home Depots, and RNC meetings. We should also take steps to curtail the immigration of white male Xians, and to control our borders to prevent their illegal immigration. The way in which our military and the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services has ignored our border with Canada, home to many white males, is simply shameful. Most white men who enter from Canada do so only in search of employment (taking jobs that otherwise would go to Americans), but it would be easy enough for a white male terrorist to blend in and come across the border, bent on performing acts of terrorism in a warmer climate without socialized medicine.

Okay, I know this will be controversial. Certain Blame America First, bleeding heart types will tell you that the Bill of Rights forbids targeting potential terrorists, um, I mean white males, simply because of their race and gender. And to that, I saw BWA! If we hope to preserve our Bill of Rights, we need to do away with the parts that are inconvenient and don't apply to me anyway, as a non-potential terrorist. I mean white male.

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