The
U.S. And YOU ALL
Deborah
Venable
05/30/02
I’ve
been away for a few days – completely unplugged from the rest of the
world. I have no idea what has happened
recently in the remote regions of human conflict, or in the local regions of political
turmoil. I believe we all have to do
that every now and then to remain focused, optimistic, and relatively sane in
today’s climate. While I was away from
the rest of the world, I was with old friends and family – important components
of my life – and we naturally fell into a discussion of old times and new
times, old values and new trends, familiar common history, and predictions of
future events. We called it, “solving
all the world’s problems.”
I’m
sure as I plug back in; the world’s problems still exist unsolved as
usual. Some insights that came from my
unplugged venture into reality cannot be ignored, and so I would like to
explore them here in cyberspace.
Travel
was a subject that came up quite naturally since some of us had to travel to
and from our meeting place in Phoenix, Arizona. My family traveled in the sublime comfort of our motor home,
which is the only way to go these days since I refuse to get within a ten-mile
radius of any airport.
It
isn’t the planes I fear but rather the affront to my citizenship as an American
that would take place before and after boarding the planes. Besides, I never know when I may actually
need my nail clippers, so I’d just as soon not risk having them confiscated as
possible weapons that I might use to . . . what? I also have a real problem with any rationalization to accept a
search of my person and my possessions because I am being considered guilty
until proven innocent – not in America!
If others want to forget that we have Constitutional law in this
country, they are the ones that are suspect for being a clear and present
danger to American citizens – not I, who would gladly step onto any plane full
of passengers who had all shown up with a ticket and boarded unencumbered – as
long as I was allowed to carry a means to defend myself and my fellow
passengers if the need ever arose.
We
have all heard the outrageous accounts of improbable passengers being detained
by an abrasive “security” staff that may or may not even be made up of American
citizens. Senior white citizens, from
the wheel chair ridden to medal of honor winners, young white children, elderly
white women with knitting needles – these are the “suspects” of the ever
vigilant, multicultural security force that send young Middle Eastern men
fitting the exact profile of the 911 hijackers through without a second
glance. The political correctness of
racial profiling, having been challenged and condemned, has not stemmed the
obvious reverse profiling that takes place in airports all over the
country. No logic exists in such
asinine abuse of common sense! No
security does either! Bending over
backwards usually results in instability and eventually a huge and painful
fall.
From
the subject of travel, our conversation thus gravitated toward a concentration
on this subject of racial profiling and how ignoring it as a tool in law
enforcement and security screening will eventually lead to a disaster of
unimaginable proportions. If the farce
of security screening is to continue, it must include a healthy dose of racial
profiling – not the reverse profiling that is now going on. The alternative, of course, is to stop
stripping individuals of unalienable rights of self-defense. In other words, let it truly be every man
for himself, and I’ll do my own profiling – thank you very much! Nothing else makes sense for the
preservation of a relatively “safe” America.
Americans
are spread out all over the world, serving their country in Military
Uniform. Are they and every civilian
American traveling, residing and working in those countries never
“profiled”? We already know that in
many cases they have been targeted
for kidnap and murder, so if anyone thinks that Americans are not regularly
“profiled” they are indeed naïve!
As
we continued to discuss the merits and pitfalls of profiling, an observation
was made which so fits the attitude that could literally save America from
impending devastation and total destruction.
We are unique in the entire world, and we had better remember that and
nurture it – not continue to make excuses for it and be ashamed of it. The influence of the U.N. is a negative one
– pure and simple. America needs an
attitude of the U.S. and YOU ALL in order to preserve and reclaim our American
heritage. With that attitude, not only
will America be better served, but also so will the rest of the world’s
“huddled masses yearning to be free”!
If that is profiling – so be it!
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