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Nonprofiling in Maryland
The affirmative-action approach to public safety that has given us Chief Moose and a great many dead bodies becomes formalized: Racial profiling settlement up for vote in Maryland. Under the settlement, troopers would give motorists they pull over a brochure about how to file racial-profiling complaints. There would be a statewide 800 number, a system for tracking the race of motorists who are stopped, and a police-citizen panel. Cops who don’t like the system can sit in their cars and eat donuts. All these are good things in accordance with the view that all differences in racial outcomes are an immediate consequence of
racism, and racism is so evil that all means must be used to extirpate it. So maybe it’s a good thing that if there’s a Jamaican
gang at work the police won’t be allowed to notice it’s Jamaican. That’s the way it is with Arab terrorists and airport
security, so why not Jamaican drug dealers and traffic stops? Why, for that matter, shouldn’t ethnic proportionality be applied to murder arrests? Chief Moose refused to investigate blacks during the recent sniper killings, but he was willing to arrest them when they in effect turned themselves in. Was that a betrayal of his principles?
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“Was that a betrayal of his principles?” Not exactly. It was more like an unprincipled exception. Posted by: Lawrence Auster on January 6, 2003 8:50 AMThis proposed “anti-profiling” plan is more than staggering. Yet it PERFECTLY embodies the liberal paradigm of society. At the very moment that a police officer is questioning a person, the officer must hand the person a brochure suggesting that the officer is a bigot and inviting the person to lodge a complaint against him. The representatives of authority are so guilty that in the very act of asserting themselves they must declare themselves to be presumptively racist and invite their own punishment. Referring to an exchange I had with Carl in another thread, does anyone believe that a society in which such a proposal could even get considered is a society in which a cultural war is taking place? No. Such a plan could only only be seriously considered in a society in which the left has already taken over and there is no real opposition. Just as the settlement itself symbolizes a society in which the very representatives of social order must exist under the thumb of the left. Posted by: Lawrence Auster on January 6, 2003 9:03 AM“At the very moment that a police officer is questioning a person, the officer must hand the person a brochure suggesting that the officer is a bigot and inviting the person to lodge a complaint against him.” — Lawrence Auster Exactly the perfect way to discourage this country’s police from doing their job on the eve of a war (Thursday or Friday I heard retired General Perry Smith opine war with Iraq would begin in around 45 days), a war moreover in which the enemy-to-be is known to have a preference for domestic terrorist acts and is known to have massively infiltrated sleeper agents into this country even as more of them pour in weekly through every leftist-and-neocon created-and-protected openings in what once were our borders. Those two Black-Muslim beltway snipers were rank amateurs compared to what’s going to come down the pike next and, thanks to this settlement, of course never get caught next time. These two bozos literally turned themselves in. Don’t expect the pros who’ll come next to do the same. Thanks, all you leftist morons and neocon immigration fanatics! WAY TO GO, GUYS!!! It’s a “settlement,” all right — it will “settle” our country’s hash, that’s for sure! Big time! Posted by: Unadorned on January 6, 2003 9:41 AM |