Racial Profiling

To ensure we Americans never offend anyone - particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport screeners will not be allowed to profile people. They will continue 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 and 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips and Medal Of Honor winning former Governors.

Let's pause a moment and take the following test.

In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped & massacred by:

(a) Olga Corbutt 
(b) Sitting Bull 
(c) Arnold Schwartzeneger 
(d) Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.

In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:

(a)    Norwegians from Ballard
(b)    Elvis
(c)    A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
(d)    Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

(a)    A pizza delivery boy
(b)    Crazed feminists complaining that being able to throw a grenade beyond its own burst radius was an unfair and sexist requirement in basic training
(c)    Geraldo Rivera making up for a slow news day
(d)    Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40.

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 between the ages of 17 & 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) Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.

In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, & a U.S. Navy diver was murdered by:

(a) Captain Kidd 
(b) Charles Lindberg 
(c) Mother Teresa 
(d) Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40

In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

(a)    Luca Brazzi, for not being given a part in "Godfather 2"
(b)    The Tooth Fairy
(c)    Butch and Sundance who had a few sticks of dynamite left over from the train mission
(d)    Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40

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 between the ages of 17 & 40.

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 to promote its next villain: "Mustapha the Merciless"
(d)    Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40

On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked and destroyed & thousands of  people were killed by:

(a)    Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
(b)    The Supreme Court of Florida trying to outdo their attempted hijacking of the 2000 Presidential election
(c)    Mr. Bean
(d)    Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 and 40

In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

(a) Bonny and Clyde 
(b) Captain Kangaroo 
(c) Billy Graham 
(d) Muslim male extremists between the ages of 17 & 40.

Hmmm ............. nope, ain't no patterns here.