Sunday, July 28, 2013

Deep thought reflection on profiling and things


In response to a fellow student:


Everybody that is nonwhite is a target for profiling (young or old), which is the state of things since 9/11.  Just as NSA is a reality (because of the abuses of the events) of 9/11, profiling, a result of the Patriot Act, is also.  However, those who suffer the most from racial profiling are blacks and any ethnic group that looks like an Arab.  For example, it is hard to tell some Latin Americans (unless they are Caucasian) from some of the various ethnicities of the Asian continent.  However, I think that even the Hispanics are not as much in jeopardy of profiling as is the Arab.  

Further, if religion could have a color or had a human frame, more people of any ethnic group would be harassed or profiled because of their religious affiliation above anything else.  I always say that black people, for example, have enough problems, and that being Muslim only compounds their dire straits for being human beings in an unjust world of other human beings.  Sometimes as it is in these times, religion can get you profiled to death with no apologies offered.  It is insane because we do allow laws that take away people's freedom.  People allowed these things to come about because after 9/11, the citizenry lost all good sense and reason, which allowed the people in power to become everybody's brain, including Bush's.  

People allowed this to happen and have not yet found the fortitude to stand together and change things, which only a mass can do.  Those with the power of money and machinery took the reins from the people with fear tactics and brought more fear upon us because they went out and made enemies of more people than we know of so far; they dared anybody in the world not to like it - for us or against us.  That was the beginning of our sorrows.  An emotionalist America gave over their good sense for a false sense of security that someone put forth to the people, giving policymakers public and private the license to do all the unlawful things that might not even be revealed yet.  For example, all of that lawlessness gave birth to the dreadful drone program and is continuing the lawlessness of GITMO.  

The only way these things can change is that people change them.  The power of the powerful though is that they know how to keep the people from agreeing among themselves that all is one and one is all, thereby keeping the focus of what they are really doing off of them by having the people continually fighting over "unformulated" reasons they are fighting one another rather than fighting the lawlessness of the lawmakers (special interest groups, PACS, and every other unjust powerhouse). (special interest groups, PACS, and every other unjust powerhouse).

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