If you're trying to eliminate the Crips and the Bloods, you're not going to shake down Caucasian grandmothers, are you? You're not even going to shake down African-American grandmothers!
While attempting to remove a Hispanic gang from the streets of your town, law enforcement officers aren't going to target Asian people, are they?
Of course not.
But we don't want to offend non-terrorist Arab males in their twenties and thirties by making them go through an additional layer of security at the airport even though there is no way such profiling could offend a rational person of any faith or ethnicity.
If you're cracking down on an Asian gang because they've been wreaking havoc in the community, and you stop to question an innocent Asian man, he's not going to call the ACLU if he has any common sense, because the crack down will assist him in staying alive!
We've got to stop bending over backwards in an attempt not to offend the irrational; just like we've got to stop trying to appease Al-Qaeda, because both tasks are impossible.
Terrorists are never going to be satisfied with concessions made by their targets and live in peace and harmony, and irrational human beings are never going to say, "Oh, that makes sense, I'll relax now," when confronted with sanity. Their inability to utter such words in the face of reason is what makes them irrational.
But we have officials in Washington that continually try to appease the unappeasable.
It's a crying shame our government doesn't make decisions based on how rational people will react. It's an even bigger shame innocent lives are at risk as a result.
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