How Stupid Are We?

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[ConservativeMan55]

How stupid are we?

Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following Multiple Choice test. (The events are actual cuts from past history. They actually happened! Do you remember?)

1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:

a. Olga Corbitt b. Sitting Bull c. Arnold Schwartzeneger d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by: a. Lost Norwegians b. Elvis c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

3. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: a. John Dillinger b. The King of Sweden c. The Boy Scouts d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: a. A pizza delivery boy b. Pee Wee Herman c. Geraldo Rivera d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by: a. The Smurfs b. Davy Jones c. The Little Mermaid d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by: a. Captain Kid b. Charles Lindberg c. Mother Teresa d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by: a. Scooby Doo b. The Tooth Fairy c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: a. Richard Simmons b. Grandma Moses c. Michael Jordan d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1998, the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: a. Mr. Rogers b. Hillary, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women problems c. The World Wrestling Federation d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted to a crash by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by: a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd b. The Supreme Court of Florida c. Mr. Bean d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against: a. Enron b. The Lutheran Church c. The NFL d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: a. Bonny and Clyde b. Captain Kangaroo c. Billy Graham d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .........I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, Secret Service agents who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning former Governors.

Let's send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder headed attorneys along with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense feel doubly ashamed of themselves. As the writer of the award winning story Forest Gump so aptly put it, "Stupid is as stupid does

[gridlock]

How Stupid Are We?

Hey, we're Republicans!

You really don't want to know the answer to that question!

< /sarc >

[AntiGuv]

In the collective sense? To the extreme. Sorry, but that's my final answer...

When you set up a system designed to drag the nation down toward the lowest common denominator, that's what ya get...

[LiteKeeper]

bump of this re-post article...we need to be constantly reminded.

[da-da-da]

Good points, except that you can't screen for Muslim, it isn't a distinguishing characteristic and thus has no real merits. You can screen stereotypes and prejudice against certain methods of dressing, but that would be pretty easy to get around.

[ConservativeMan55]

Rush Limbaugh had a column about this the other day called "Were not going back to the 14th century"

[Servant of the Nine]

Same question was asked about conventional crime.
50% of all crime is committed by 3% of the population (black males 18-30) but we wouldn't want to profile them, that would be wrong.

So9

[Mr. Mojo]

Our President isn't going to like your attempt to slander the "religion of peace." It's only around 1% of Muslims who are bad apples/terrorists.....

....Unfortunately, 1% of 1.3 billion is 13 million terrorists.

[Valin]

Is it posted here?

[ConservativeMan55]

I'm not sure if its posted on FreeRepublic, but I will do a search on his website. I am sure he has it archived on his website.

[kylaka]

You wouldn't want to profile them to the exclusion of those that commit the other 50% of crimes.

[MississippiMan]

As I've said many times: Common sense has left the building. I've seen this nonsense firsthand and am sure those of you who've flown commercial airlines since 9/11 have, as well. MEM (Middle Eastern males) walk right on board unfettered, while 80-year-old whites and blacks are pulled out of the boarding line and made to take their shoes off, have their bags rifled through, etc. All MEM should be screened more carefully, plus random people from the remaining groups. It's plain common sense, but our government can't be bothered with things like that. Let's never forget that we changed the name of our war to avoid offending our enemies. Doesn't that just about wrap it up?

MM

[Servant of the Nine]

You wouldn't want to profile them to the exclusion of those that commit the other 50% of crimes.

Nope, but I would want 50% of all police efforts concentrated on that 3%

SO9