House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King has endorsed requiring people of "Middle Eastern and South Asian" descent to undergo additional security checks because of their ethnicity and religion.NY NAACP president Hazel Dukes calls it right:
"We are all concerned about safety but to target any group for nationality or religion is unconstitutional. African-Americans understand racial profiling. We won't support any targeting of a group. The practice is just un-American."It's time for Congressman King to go.
Long Islanders have a choice. His name is Dave Mejias.
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2 comments:
Although the racist nature of this idea is important, equally important is that it leads to a LESS secure system. We have limitted rescources to put towards screening for terrorists. The more energy we spend screening middle eastern young men, the less energy we'll have to screen everyone else. Anyone who thinks terrorists have to be middle eastern young men have forgotten the lessons of Beslan and Oklahoma, among others.
rich is totally right.
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