Posted on 08/11/2005 5:09:54 AM PDT by OESY
...Among other lessons of 9/11, we have learned the cost of squeamishness that prevented closer scrutiny of young Arab men entering the country even when their behavior raised suspicions.... [A]n airline ticket-taker recalls being stunned by the strange look on the face of customer Mohamed Atta--particularly the unsettling fury the man exuded. Still, he could not bring himself to raise any alarm: indeed, when he heard later that the plane Atta was on had been one of those that crashed in the terror attacks, the agent felt terrible. Terrible because he had been suspicious of the passenger and thought he could be a terrorist and now the poor man was dead.... [and], in fact, hijacker-in-chief and pilot of the plane.
As the admirable Tony Blair is now discovering after announcing his determination that "multiculturalist concerns" will not be allowed to impede the struggle to rid his nation of terrorists, a thorny road lies ahead. Islamic civil rights organizations and others immediately warned that... his efforts would... "alienate" young Muslims....
Ethnic/racial profiling may not, in fact, work very well as a security strategy--but the frenzy of the attacks it has excited tells more.... Large numbers of citizens of every religion and ethnicity lost their lives in the terrorist attacks. Today, a strategy designed to help ensure that such a calamity will not again occur has been converted to a bizarre race-discrimination issue, subordinated to the concerns and ambitions of politicians. This won't, in the end, do much for the office-seekers and -holders now competing for the honor of delivering the most hysterical denunciations of ethnic and racial profiling. What, after all, can citizens (black and brown among them) think of leaders still prepared to argue that young Arab males receive no more scrutiny than the famous 80-year-old little grandmother...?
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
"Blood must flow. There must be widows, there must be orphans."--jihadist Fayiz Azzam addressing a gathering in Atlanta, 1990
"We conquer the land of the infidels, and we spread Islam by calling the infidels to Allah."--from a speech by Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, outlining the plan for Islamic world rule, at an event sponsored by the Islamic Charity Project International, Detroit, 1991
"He is now extremely anxious when he sees police officers in the subway system."--from a description, by the New York Civil Liberties Union, of one of the complainants who joined its lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, August 2005
Where did you find those quates? Really good in showing th nature of this "peaceful" religion. If the west had left them alone they would be at war with themselves, even more than they are now.
ACLU = Biggest hate group in America.
If the west had left them alone, you're neighborhood might be an ash pile. That's stupid thinking.
Ping
Actually, I've been intimidated by more cops than by terrorists.
Don't be too cocky, that could change overnight.
> Where did you find those quotes?
They are at the beginning of Rabinowitz's column and bear repeating:
"Blood must flow. There must be widows, there must be orphans."--jihadist Fayiz Azzam addressing a gathering in Atlanta, 1990
"We conquer the land of the infidels, and we spread Islam by calling the infidels to Allah."--from a speech by Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, outlining the plan for Islamic world rule, at an event sponsored by the Islamic Charity Project International, Detroit, 1991
"He is now extremely anxious when he sees police officers in the subway system."--from a description, by the New York Civil Liberties Union, of one of the complainants who joined its lawsuit against the New York City Police Department, August 2005
Oh, I'd rather be blown up than have my bags checked too. Totally with you on that one, dude. /sarc
You are perhaps giving them way too much credit. And what I meant is that there is an incredible amount of internal turmoil between arabs in the middle east. If you know anything of middle eastern history you'd see what I was saying.
You might not be intimidated by the terrorists, just blown up.
When I read Dorothy Rabinowitz's column this morning, I had the impression that she had picked up the ball...but didn't run with it. Yes, she gets fight to the heart of the matter--the NYCLU's interference in fighting this war on the domestic front, and the larger issue of profiling. Nevertheless, she avoids the tough questions: How can the ACLU be neutralized? What will it take to put profiling in place?
Hopefully, not another attack. But I'm afraid the terrorists are going to hit the subway before Bloomberg figures out what he's got to do.
Ms Lieberman would rather risk a few people getting blown up now and again as long as she is safe from the police accidentally finding her stash.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) - http://www.alliancedefensefund.org
Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) - http://www.thomasmore.org
American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) - http://www.aclj.org
The Rutherford Institute - http://www.rutherford.org/
Stop the ACLU Coalition (GREATLY ORGANIZED ACTIVIST SITE..PLEASE JOIN) - http://www.stoptheaclu.org
Here are a few examples of how two of those organizations are fighting back:
ADF Contacts Over 3,600 School Districts Over Attempts To Censor Christmas
ADF: 700 lawyers ready to fight ACLU lawsuits
ADF: Pentagons' Warning About Boyscouts Is Absurd
Thomas More Law Center: Town of Palm Beach Pays $50,000 In Attorney Fees Apologizes To Women In Nativity Lawsuit
Additional information:
The ACLU must be destroyed: Joseph Farah supports Boy Scouts, urges Americans to fight back
Citizens mobilized to stop ACLU (seeks to consign group to 'ash heap of history')
ACLU fulfilling communist agenda
Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings
See how YOUR Senator or Representative ranks with the ACLU
This yahoo group just started on December 3, 2004 and is looking for new members
The Center For Reclaiming America (petitions to congress)
American Family Assn. Center for Law and Policy
"I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control of those who produced the wealth: communism is the goal." - Roger Baldwin, ACLU founder, Harvard Reunion Book, 1935
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve the confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also, the whole body to forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so on." - William Z. Foster, ACLU co-founder and former chairman, Communist Party USA.
Let me know if you would like to join my ACLU ping list
The real danger of terrorists is that they lead to an increasingly militarized and unbridled law enforcement body, which is the standing army our founders feared.
Good to see that Dorothy is still writing. Since dropping my subscription to the WSJ I hadn't seen Dorothy's writings -- wondered if she had retired.
Thanks.
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