HTColeman said:
Yes, the argument is that focusing on arab males in airports is only an invonvenience, but what could be put in place to guaruntee that it stops there? In the past, such discrimination only escalates if the problem gets worse.
So I suppose you would have been insisting to Robert Kennedy that the Justice Department refrain from only investigating white people when looking into Klan violence-under the guise that federal agents might somehow abuse their power if allowed to single out Southern whites?
Would you also then oppose the police having the right to single out known sex offenders in child rape investigations?
I suppose that you can see the inherent stupidity of what you are suggesting as long as it is not being applied to the left's beloved, bloodthirsty "religion of peace."
By your logic, you can justify opposing
anything our authorities might need to do to prevent or prosecute anything from mass murder to molestation. There is
always the risk that some individual(s) might abuse their power, but fear of that kind of deviation certainly should not be the
basis for whether or not we use common sense in defending ourselves.
Would you base your opinion on whether or not we should have liberated Iraq on the possibility of something like Abu Ghirab? If this is what keeps Democrats opposing every single national security measure Bush has taken, siding with every single enemy this country has had for the last fifty years, appeasing all our nightmarishly scary enemies like North Korea, and doing nothing about a decade of Al Queda attacks, I think you have plenty of evidence that this, "play nice with the bloodthirsty savages" approach doesn't work and isn't worth it.
What exactly is it you are afraid might be done to these people if they are allowed to be searched more thoroughly than the 0% of the rest of the population hijacking American planes? If you are worried that they will be abused by bigoted security guards once they are behind closed doors (which is still nowhere near as grave a risk as mass murder), we could always insist that terror suspects be interrogated/searched by multiple agents in the room at the same time and at least one supervisor.
Still not enough? We could take it a step further and insist that one of the agents present must be black (which would nearly guarantee them to be a Democrat) to ensure that someone with maximum racial oversensitivity is present and approves of the methods being used. And just to make sure liberals are fully satisfied, we can even make sure all the blacks we hire to meet this mandate are less qualified than all the white applicants we reject.
