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    May 01, 2004

    Norman Mineta: It’s Better to Be Politically Correct than to Fight Terrorists.

    It is beyond question that the primary practitioners of terrorism worldwide are the subset of Arabs known as Islamo-Fascists.

    Anyone not blinded by political correctness knows that you have to therefore be extra careful when screening people of Arabic descent at airports. Yes, that is unfortunate for the people of Arabic descent who are law-abiding. But it’s for their own safety. They’re in as much danger as anyone else if the plane is crashed into a building.

    I’d be much more impressed with law-abiding people of Arabic descent if they would make an outcry against terrorism, rather than against the policies that seek to prevent terrorists from killing people.

    Ann Coulter has the shocking story about how, in the name of political correctness, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta has actually sued airlines for trying to keep us from getting blown up:

    In June 2001, as Mohamed Atta completed his final “to do” list before the 9-11 attacks….. Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was conducting a major study on whether airport security was improperly screening passengers based on ethnicity. As Mineta explained: “We must protect the civil rights of airline passengers.” Protecting airline passengers from sudden death has never made it onto Mineta’s radar screen.

    Amazingly, Mineta continues this practice after 9-11 and to this day:

    Flush with praise from the ACLU, Mineta set to work suing airlines for removing passengers perceived to be of Arab, Middle Eastern or Southeast Asian descent, and/or Muslim.

    ...Despite Mineta’s clearly worded letter immediately after the 9-11 terrorist attacks and another follow-up letter in October, the Department of Transportation found that in the weeks after the 9-11 terrorist attacks carried out by Middle Eastern men, the airlines were targeting passengers who appeared to be Middle Eastern. To his horror, Mineta discovered that the airlines were using logic and deductive reasoning to safeguard their passengers in direct violation of his just-issued guidelines on racial profiling!

    Mineta has caused the same airlines that were targeted by terrorists on 9-11, to pay millions to settle lawsuits.

    This is infuriating. The terrorists are counting on this sort of behavior on our part to permit them to get in here and nuke us. Mineta must be made to understand that this kind of brain-dead political correctness is a relic of the past.

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    gi jane   on  05/01/04  at  07:30 PM   United States  #1

    I'd be more impressed with law-abiding people of United States birth if they would make an outcry against the terrorism their country causes aboard:

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBS/60Min/60MinII.US.IraqiTortured.10.jpg

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBS/60Min/60MinII.US.IraqiTortured.09.jpg

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBS/60Min/60MinII.US.IraqiTortured.08.jpg

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBS/60Min/60MinII.US.IraqiTortured.7a.jpg

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/wonk/CBS/60Min/60MinII.US.IraqiTortured.7b.jpg

    As Time magazine says:

    "They are the face of America, its might and good will, in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is TIME's Person of the Year"



    Eagle1   on  05/03/04  at  12:17 AM   United States  #2

    This, http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/elizabeth_paige.asp ,is what can happen in America and not in Muslim countries. And... if you are a woman, you would not even be allowed to go to school. Is that better than treatment in America? Good Lord, America is still the greatest nation on earth! At least unless, or until God is kicked all the way out, by the leftest who are so desparately trying to do so. If that successfully happens, then I say yeah, blow us all up, as then and only then, America wouldn't be worth saving, (just like Sodom and Gommorrah wasn't), for without God, nothing else matters, not even America. And that is the point.

    It is only because most Americans worship and revere God Almighty, that America is great at all. It is too bad, the vast portion of God fearing Christians in America go about their daily lives unseen and unheard, while the media only portrays America's "fruits and nuts" to the rest of the world. No wonder they think we are evil. The media is what is mostly wrong with America along with her assisting Godless souls, not the other way around. God is everything, or he is nothing! Half measures avail NOTHING.

    It is not the law abiding Christians in the U.S. that is causing all the terrorism, nor is it the law abiding Christians in the military that are causing it either. I guarantee you that none of those so called abusers over in Iraq are regular Church attendees, who pray every single day, and try their level best to do God's will daily, and you know it!

    Eagle1



    Gabi   on  05/04/04  at  01:07 AM   Germany  #3

    When terrorists murdered more than 3000 people in the name of islam, it has of course nothing to do with islam, it is not the face of the islam, it is the face of terrorists but when US-soldiers do a crime, even when they are only 16, then this is the USA, then they are the face of US. gi jane, you are wrong. The Arabic world which outcries now is wrong. People do crimes everywhere on this world. Do they all represent the nation behind them? Be fair!





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