William Wheatley
Coldfusion Guru
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
----- Original Message -----
From: Won Lee
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 12:41 PM
Subject: RE: Have you seen this?
At 12:08 7/23/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> > The idea that because Terrorist of Middle Easter descent committed 9/11
> > that all Middle Easterners are legitimate suspects is a notion illogical
>to
> > me. Illogical I tell you.
>
>I haven't heard anyone say "all" Middle Eastern men are terrorists. I don't
>think they are. I think...err...know that everyone on this list is
>intelligent enough to also admit this.
>
No one wrote this, but it's not illogical to deduce that is what a lot of
ppl think. Why do you advocate that 14 Middle Easteners talking in the
back are suspicious? Is because there are 14 of them?
It easy to say, "I don't believe all Middle Eastners are terrorist." It's
another act it even at the cost of some near term safety. I agree with a
lot of ppl that I may be swimming upstream against common sense. I may
even be risking near term safety of my life when I take a flight. But I
think that risk is so small especially compared to the greater (and
currently actualized) risk of losing personal liberties. Some of the
families of the victim of the flight may say that it's easy for me to say
this because I didn't lose a loved one, but I tell them it makes it harder.
I find it hard to get up on a soap box and tell people, grieving people
none the less, that singling out a single ethnic group based on the actions
of 19 men is not only illogical but morally wrong. But personal
embarrassment can not douse my passion; my passion and love for this
country and the belief that what makes America so great is it's Constitution.
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