The trendy new liberal cause is "profiling."
The evil "profiling" approach involves
policemen using this kind of logic: "I see
a young black man driving slowly around an affluent
neighborhood at 2 am. I think I should stop him
and check him out to protect the public."
This is unfair to an innocent young black who just
HAPPENS to be driving slowly at 2 in the morning.
What liberals ignore is the REASON the unfortunate
young black man looks suspicious. The REASON this
black man is being stopped is not because there
is a plot against him. Police consider him a possible
danger to the public because there are OTHER young
black men who are killing, robbing, raping, and
maiming people.
Liberals blame everybody -- police, Society, whites
-- for this young black man's problem. Everybody,
that is, except those who are responsible. That
young black man is being stopped because of his
fellow blacks who are committing all those crimes.
It doesn't bother liberals, of course, but the killing,
raping, and maiming of honest people is something
we want stopped. As long as black criminals are
doing most of the killing and maiming and raping,
honest blacks are going to be harassed.
Let's blame the criminals for a change.
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All the authorities urge us, "DO
NOT pick up hitchhikers."
Does this mean ALL hitchhikers are evil? Not at
all. The same authorities who urge us not to pick
up hitchhikers would agree that most of them are
harmless people who simply don't have the money
to pay for another form of transportation.
So the slogan, "Don't pick up hitchhikers,"
is an exercise in PROFILING. Because a few hitchhikers
are dangerous criminals, we are urged not to pick
up ANY hitchhikers.
Liberals agree to profiling hitchhikers this way.
That's OK because hitchhikers are not one of the
liberals' pet minority groups.
You are welcome to say that anyone with his thumb
out on a public road is a potential criminal. But
you are NOT free to say that it is more likely that
an illegal alien at the Mexican border will be a
brown person who speaks Spanish.
The NAACP and the ACLU are going to court to prevent
the INS from checking brown, Latin people on the
Mexican border. They admit that it is more likely
that a brown person with a Spanish accent is an
illegal alien. But they argue that the INS should
be required to check blond people with eastern accents
just as often.
These nuts are serious.
As with all liberal programs, this one is not supposed
to WORK. Liberals admit this would be a waste of
resources. But it would benefit one of their pet
groups.
The liberal media are saying it is awful that the
police check out young blacks more often because
they are young and black. They admit that more young
blacks commit crimes. They admit that checking out
middle-aged whites as often as young blacks would
be a waste of police resources. They agree that
crime would go up.
But that's OK. No liberal program is ever supposed
to WORK.
Please note that all this worry about profiling
is limited strictly to groups the left likes: blacks
and Hispanics and similar groups.
But when it comes to groups liberals don't like,
they profile all the time.
When two insane kids murdered their classmates in
Colorado, liberals demanded action against every
gun owner in America. Every person in America who
owns a weapon is lumped together with these two
nutcases, instantly and without question. What if,
every time a black criminal raped or murdered a
white person, there was instant coast-to-coast discussion
about whether black people needed to be controlled
more carefully?
In my May 8 article, "Armed
Switzerland and the Colorado Killings,"
I pointed out that hundreds of thousands of Swiss
men have real, fully automatic assault weapons at
home which are paid for by the government. They
have no more gun crimes than England does, and England
has absolutely vicious, total gun control.
In that May 8 article, I also pointed out that concealed
weapon permit holders in the Untied States have
every bit as good a record for their gun ownership
as the Swiss do. But liberals profile permit holders
together with those two young psychos in Colorado.
So let's get this straight: "profiling"
is only bad if it is used in ways which liberals
do not approve.
A couple of years ago, a black man got an automatic
weapon, boarded a New York subway, and killed every
white person he could. He declared that he did it
because he hated whites.
A couple of weeks ago, a white supremacist rode
around Chicago killing non-whites.
Now let us take a look at what was blamed in each
case.
In the case of the black killing whites because
he hated them, his gun was blamed. A wife of one
of his victims is now in Congress, leading the attack
against every legitimate gun owner in this country.
The murderer's hatred of whites is never mentioned.
In the case of the white supremacist, CNN's Talk
Back Live immediately did a piece on white supremacists.
CNN did special after special on "Hate groups,"
which includes anyone who disagrees with the liberal
racial program.
Nothing liberals do ever WORKS (See November 21,
1998 article, "It Doesn't
WORK!"). This profiling issue is a good
example to explain WHY nothing liberal ever WORKS.
It is very simple: 1) Every example of profiling
that liberals OBJECT TO is based on reality, and
2) Every kind of profiling liberals DO is based
on a myth.
It is not fair for an innocent young black man who
is driving around slowly in an affluent neighborhood
to be stopped and questioned by police. But if the
police do NOT question young blacks who do that,
a lot of people will pay a HUGE price for this wonderful,
Politically Correct behavior.
Likewise, it would be nice if millions of Mexicans
were to suddenly stop flooding across our southern
border in violation of American law. But until that
happens, any serious surveillance at the Rio Grande
will have to concentrate on people who are dark
and speak Spanish. Liberals want to ignore reality
and have the public pay the price of Political Correctness.
Meanwhile, the knee-jerk liberal reaction of lumping
permit holders together with people who shoot up
schools has no basis in reality whatsoever.
You can pass laws prohibiting guns within a mile
of a school, and it will not stop a single school
homicide. Murderers don't worry about gun laws.
Actually, the one case where such laws had an effect
was in the case of a person shooting up a school
who was finally stopped by a teacher who had a gun.
Because of the federal law prohibiting guns within
a thousand feet of a school, the teacher had to
run four blocks to get his gun while the shooter
was still shooting.
Gun laws affect only law-abiding people, and law-abiding
people are not the problem.
The bottom line is that the same liberals who complain
about profiling do their own profiling all the time.
The only difference is that liberal profiling never
makes any sense.
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