No criticism, please, we're bureaucrats

Washington Times ^ | 7/09/02 | Wesley Pruden

[kattracks]

The Justice Department ought to listen when President Bush says that fighting terrorism is the most important duty of the government.

A gunman named Mohamed, angered by his upstairs neighbors who insisted on flying the American flag from their window after September 11, walks up to the El Al Israeli Airlines counter at Los Angeles International Airport, passing up Delta, Air New Zealand and dozens of other carriers, and shoots a clerk and a security guard.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[stands2reason]

 "I dare say that if a lone gunman had opened fire, for instance, at the Continental Airways counter at Cairo International Airport in order to deliberately kill Americans, it would not be described as a hate crime but, quite rightly, as a terrorist act.

Damn straight.

[goldstategop]

Well any one who sprays an El Al airline counter with gun fire is a terrorist. It doesn't matter if he has an a connection to organized terrorism or not. What's truly inane is we're so blinded by political correctness that we dare not label an Arab terrorist a terrorist out of fear of acknowledging Islam is not yet exactly a religion of peace. Of course its fitting the FBI is the very embodiment of this no see, no hear, no speak mindset towards terrorism in America thanks in no small part to its Directors' addressing both an Islamist public relations front group and his opposition to rational racial profiling to help save innocent lives.

[aardvark1]

we're so blinded by political correctness

The real strange part of this is that we are not "blinded" by or to political correctness. Everyone sees it for what it is and yet we keep right on marching along making stupid statements like those the FBI made after this terrorist attack. EVERYONE, including the moron who made these statements, knew this was a terrorist attack. He wasn't blind, just bound and gagged by the PC police who patrol the mainline news outlets and the corridors of our government buildings.

[rhema]

(One day soon a court, perhaps the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, will devise a "Miranda"-like warning for killers to use to avoid being charged with hate crimes. "Good evening, madam, I intend to rape you and then shoot you with this .357 magnum and a hollow-nose bullet, but I assure you that I hold you in the highest personal regard and respect." Bang.)

In the newspeak lexicon of the hate-crimes apostles, only groups adjudged categorically capable of hating would have to worry about this warning. For certain segments of our population, it'd be business as usual because they've been decreed (by Ted Kennedy, the New York Times, and all the other residents of Planet Unreality) to be incapable of animus.