I love it when I see some 70-year-old grandmother gets embarrassed half to death while the airports search her, including patting down her bosom.
For fifty years that woman, liberal or conservative, has been crying over the poor little Indians, blubbering about racism and proving she’s not a racist, and now she’s getting a chance to prove it and pay just a little of the dues she owes.
Are we going to stop strip-searching white grandmothers and thereby offend Mohammed Um-Baba? No way, Mohammed is just as unsuspicious as grandma.
Are we going to stop black teenagers because half of black teenagers are in jail or on probation? No way, everyone is assumed innocent until he is proven guilty, and there is no limit to the amount of time the police have to waste on checking everybody equally.
So if granny gets her head bashed in while the police are off stopping other grandmas to balance their number of checks on young blacks, it is not just what granny allowed to happen, it’s what she BEGGED for, year after year, decade after decade.
The one member of the Cabinet Bush is not even thinking of removing is Normal Mineta. His Japanese family got interned sixty years ago and he’s still got the grudge going. America is going to pay. He is the one who ordered the strip-searching of grandma and he is going to keep on ordering it.
Well, I agree with him. This is what grandma agreed to over and over and over. She didn’t object much when white kids had to wait in the freezing winter mornings to be bused into ghettoes. Well, she said a few things, but she didn’t want to make too much noise.
She was infinitely more worried about being accused of racism than about any kids.
So grandma gets strip-searched and mugged.
It suits Mineta. And it suits me.
And if a plane gets blown out of the sky by Mohammed, who got on the plane while they were humiliating grandma, it’s not just what the passengers LET happen. It is what they have BEGGED for, year after year, decade after decade.
It suits Mineta.
And it suits me.
#1 by Don on 12/17/2004 - 2:11 pm
Payback is hell, isn’t it?
#2 by Don on 12/17/2004 - 2:15 pm
Let’s see, first comes dot #1, then comes dot #2, then comes …
Hey, who said mathematics was hard?
#3 by Don on 12/17/2004 - 2:19 pm
Who knows what might be hiding in the nooks and the cranny, of White, gray haired, old bleading heart granny!
#4 by H.S. on 12/17/2004 - 2:10 pm
WHAT HE SAID.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
#5 by Bedford on 12/17/2004 - 8:10 pm
Hell, Bush is gonna give ol Norm Mineta a medal before it is over with – he gave another Clinton appointee (CIA Tenant) a medal. It’s a good thing that we don’t play politics here like they do in the Ukraine – now that’s hardball – ask Yushchenko. I was focused on beating Kerry and now I have time to really examine Bush – he could be turning the dollar into the peso and if Clinton didn’t give the Chinese the whole store, then I think Bush will give’em whatever they haven’t gotten or stolen so far. Putin must be a dumbass – why doesn’t he get some of the business that the Chinese get?
#6 by JasonW on 02/02/2011 - 10:11 pm
“His Japanese family got interned sixty years ago and he’s still got the grudge going.”
True dat. Norm Mineta is still singing the same song. He and the two new mayors of San Francisco and Oakland (both Asians) were interviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle last Sunday, and you would think they were dragged here in chains. Such a wail!
But I must say that you and the late Revilo Oliver have & had a severely inadequate understanding of the West Coast phenomenon known as “worshiping Japanese.” In fact, Japanese nationals, Italian nationals, and German nationals (meaning not US citizens) were required by military order to evacuate the West Coast up to a certain number of miles. The Italian nationals and the German nationals did it toot sweet. The Japanese nationals declined to obey the military order so they were eventually housed in evacuation camps. Persons residing in these camps were fed, housed, educated, etc., at taxpayer expense all during WWII unless they moved on east as everyone of them was free to do.
Obituaries from time to time of dead Japanese have been a wonderful source of information about the huge number that obeyed the military order and moved east. Japanese children graduated from high school were moved east and provided full tuition and housing at colleges east of the Rockies. Every Japanese national in these evacuation camps was free to move east just like Mineta was. Needless to say, there was always medical service available, and no torturing, killing, stabbing, or other horrors at the evacuation camps.
A tiny example of this was that Joe DiMaggio was free to move along the West Coast and set up a restaurant in San Francisco, while his parents, not US citizens, were not able to visit him or his restaurant in San Francisco during WWII.
Now then, there were internment camps for Germans, Italians, and Japanese who were deemed to be “enemy aliens” and they were locked up for the duration of WWII. However, it is a lamentable fact that the Germans & Italians thus held seriously outnumbered the Japanese so designated.
The problem is that Japanese have “concentration camp” envy and seek to use that term for both evacuation and internment camps. I suspect in large part it is to shut up talk about loyalty during WWII, not to mention the sinister and sneaky attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese groups raged about the film called Pearl Harbor a few years ago, claiming that angry hateful white people would attack and kill them outside the movie theaters. It was quite a horror show and scandal until after the movie premiere when no one attacked anyone. No apologies were offered.
I’ve often thought that Jews were seriously dishonest in describing their numbers in work camps in eastern Europe, but Japanese are almost 100% dishonest in revealing what really happened during WWII. Sometimes Jews will say that gypsies and gays were also imprisoned in work camps, but Japanese will never reveal that Germans and Italians outnumbered them in internment camps as enemy aliens, and that the Japanese were always free to leave the evacuation camps so long as they went east.