Friday, April 21, 2006

"Racial Profiling"

Two reasons I am for it:

Logically, if every other Wal-Mart in the country was getting targeted by suicide bombers who tended to be thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards; then thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards should be getting searched before entering Wal-Mart (or any other store for that matter). It would be a disservice to the public if they were not. The thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards who were not criminals would not have a problem with this... especially if they have families. In fact, most thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards who are law abiding citizens would be thankful for the "profiling" if they value their lives, and shop at Wal-Mart. This is not to say that the law abiding thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards wouldn't get a little irritated by continually having to get searched every time they go to buy diapers, but logically, their lives far outweigh the value of their feelings.
The thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards who intend to blow op the local Wal-Mart, on the other hand, have good reason to be upset. With all of the 'description specific' searching going on, the ability to kill masses of innocent people at Wal-Mart has been greatly reduced. Why? Because merely the sight of a thirty-something, white, balding guy with a beard is going to put up a red flag.
Unfortunately the common, thirty-something, law abiding, white, balding guys with beards will suffer some persecution, simply for looking like the criminals. They will be stigmatized to some degree for their appearence. If they were to be stigmatized to such a degree that their lives became intolerable, the common, law abiding, thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards then have a moral duty - a civic duty - to denounce publicly, the actions of the sinister thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards. If this does not quell the violence, then more evasive action would have to follow. No matter what the remedy is, there would have to be some sort of public outcry; an audible outrage. Most importantly, action must be taken to counter the suicide bombing thirty-something, white, balding guys with beards crowd.


Nobody likes to go to war - nobody. A fool can sit around day after day explaining why war is not the answer, and accomplish nothing, but a righteous man knows when he has to go to war, and he goes.


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