I find a trend on this board rather disturbing. It seems people are more concerned (just like the media) with causing problems rather than fixing them. Some of you, in your never ending quests to find something wrong with everything, are, it seems, more upset with those who wish this individual to be drawn and quartered than with the "sniper" himself (I use the term sniper loosely because he is most certainly not a "sniper")
Somehow during the course of your efforts, you have forgetten that this individual actually went on a 3 week long rampage SHOOTING pedistrians as they loaded groceries or filled up their gas tanks. Obviously this person has a rather fragile pysche, what with being able to sleep at night and continue his behavior until caught, so lets not risk the possibily of offending him by refering to him as: A. Black. B. Muslim. or C. 41 years old.
For your viewing pleasure, Ive pasted an exerpt from a floor statement made by Representative Charles Norwood (R, 10th dist.) that sums up the rediculousness of this politically correct behavior quite nicely for my tastes. Enjoy.
"Political correctness is a bad thing under any situation. It prevents people from speaking the truth, sometimes of even looking for the truth, out of fear they will be smeared as racist, xenophobes, bigots, etc. This disease born of the political left has infected political leaders, teachers, researchers – and journalists. I am determined it will not infect me. The citizens of this district elected me to vote the way they would in Washington, and to tell them the truth, as best I can grasp it.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has accused me of ignorance and racism, because I told the truth about protecting our nation. This is the kind of extreme political correctness that hamstrung the FBI from investigating the perpetrators of the attacks of September 11th, which led to the loss of over 3,000 innocent American lives. Their comments to this effect were printed in the Augusta Chronicle on August 2. The full context of the exchange was not. Here is the body of what I wrote, and we’ll see if it gets printed.
“Have you seen this email making its way around the Internet? While somewhat amusing, it makes a very poignant point.
‘Let's pause a moment and take the following test.
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 making up for a slow news day
(d) Arab Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked, and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard by:
(a) The Smurfs
(b) Davy Jones
(c) The Little Mermaid
(d) Arab Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:
(a) Captain Kid
(b) Charles Lindbergh
(c) Mother Teresa
(d) Arab Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.’
The test goes on through other recent terrorist incidents including: the kidnapping and massacring of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Iran, the kidnapping of Americans in Lebanon in the 1980s, the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, the 1998 bombing of the U.S embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and of course, ending with the attacks on September 11. Potential choices include Sitting Bull, Lost Norwegians, Elvis, Grandma Moses, and Scooby Doo. But the known culprit in every case is (d) Arab Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
As I write this, The Washington Times is reporting that increased sensitivity to focusing on Arab males is hampering the FBI’s investigation of terrorism. Unbelievably, the report also states that a fear of being accused of racial profiling is what caused the FBI in Washington to not move forward with an investigation of Zacharias Massaoui, the “20th Hijacker,” which could have potentially uncovered the September 11th plot.
At our airports every day, children and 80-year-old women are stopped and frisked by security guards. Searching these people does virtually nothing to enhance security at our airports and simply creates delays for travelers. Have we gone completely nuts? There is commonsense and there is nonsense.
Commonsense tells us that we are fighting a war on terrorism mainly against Arab Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40. Nonsense is being so politically correct that we are afraid to say it.
If there were a 60-year-old, white, overweight,…gray-haired burglar roaming around my neighborhood in Evans, Georgia, I would expect the police to look twice at me. It only makes sense.
Is this to say that all Arab males between the ages of 17 and 40 are terrorists or that every terrorist is an Arab. Absolutely not!! I need only to point to Timothy McVeigh. Should we ignore suspicious activity by anyone not fitting this description? Absolutely not!!
But can we ignore that every terrorist on September 11 was an Arab male between the ages of 17 and 40? Can we ignore that Al Queda and the Taliban are almost universally comprised of Arab males and that they have sworn to strike us again? Do we have another enemy in the world like this? When our law enforcement has a lead about suspicious activity by an Arab male between the ages of 17 and 40 shouldn’t it be put at the top of the list, not the bottom?”
That’s the body of the issue; I’m leaving out the part where I ask for campaign donations. You’ll note that I specifically state that not all Arab males between 17 and 40 are terrorists, and that Arab Muslim male extremists are not the exclusive perpetrators of terrorism.
The August 2 Augusta Chronicle story states that Mr. Khalil E. Jahshan of the ADC takes offense at this letter, and points out that Iranians and Afghans are involved as well. Thank you Mr. Jashan, even though my letter alludes to the fact that others are involved, it is helpful that you specifically mention these other threats to America.
Now had the reporter done some journalistic research, he would have discovered that Mr. Jashan wears more than one hat. Here is what Mr. Jahshan had to say before Congress seven years ago when called to testify on terrorism:
“…groups like Fatah, Hamas, DFLP, and PFLP, some of which are designated as terrorist organizations in the President's executive order of January 24, 1995, engage in a host of educational, health, social and other humanitarian activities that are desperately needed in Palestinian society. Cutting off fund raising to the legitimate non-terrorist and non-violent activities of such groups will deprive Palestinian society of vital services that cannot easily be provided by the Palestine National Authority or any outside source at this time.” - STATEMENT OF Khalil E. Jahshan, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ARAB AMERICANS (NAAA), BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE June 13, 1995
Mr. Jahshan argued for his groups to continue providing funds to Hamas. They have.
Research is hard work, so let’s try to make it easier. The reporter can read this on the front page of today’s Augusta Chronicle, his own paper:
“Early Friday, an El Al Israel Airlines plane reached New York, carrying the bodies of two of the five American victims of the Hebrew University bombing, in which seven people died and more than 80 were wounded Wednesday… The violent Islamic Hamas took responsibility for the bombing…” – Augusta Chronicle/Associated Press, Friday, August 2
Five more Americans civilians dead, at the hands of Muslim Middle East extremists. Please note I’m not saying all Muslims, certainly not the majority, or any that I know of in our community, who are some of our finest citizens and leaders, for whose past support I will forever be grateful. I’m also very conscious of the fact that many of our citizens of Muslim Middle East background are here precisely to get away from the insanity of groups like Hamas.
These were specifically Muslim Middle East Hamas terrorists, an organization funded by groups associated with Mr. Jahshan. I encourage this fellow and his organization to formally apologize for the role their financial support of terrorist organizations has played in the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women, and children of all nationalities and faiths.
I stand by my statement, I stand by my position, and I will continue to fight for the lives and safety of the people of this district and America. If that offends the sensitivities of anyone I advise them to vote accordingly, as their sensitivities are not worth a wooden nickel compared to the life of a single American sacrificed to political correctness. "
God bless this man for standing up against the seemingly endless wave of feel-good bandwagon roadkill.
