This is a glowing example of some of the shit I get in my in box from supposedly intelligent friends and colleagues. How can people so intelligent be so fucking ignorant? Anyway, the following is a copy of an email forward that many of you have probably received as well. I am so livid right now at the blatant racism in our society today, I am not even sure where to begin ranting. OK, I know a good start: to the author that wrote this thought provoking piece, either remove your head from your ass to get a better world view or shove it up a lot farther so your neck breaks and you die suffocating on the shit you are intent on polluting the world with. Anyway, without further ado, here is the offensive piece of trash:
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Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following Multiple Choice test. (The events are actual cuts from past history. They really happened!)
Do you remember?
In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:
a. Olga Corbitt
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwartzeneger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly 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 mostly 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. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a U.S. Navy diver
trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly 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 mostly between the ages of 17 and 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
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to
take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into
the US Pentagon and the other was diverted to a crash by the passengers.
Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Court of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly 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 mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
No… I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent
on killing us, airport security screeners will not be allowed to profile
certain people. They must continue to conduct 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, 85-year
old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning former
Governors.
Let’s send this to as many people as we can so that the Gloria Allreds
dunder headed Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense feel doubly
ashamed of themselves.
As the writer of the award winning story Forest Gump so aptly put it,
“Stupid is as stupid does!”
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Fucking ignorant fucks.
Profane please don’t tell me you are falling in the trap.
Why not make one up ourselves in another direction (and I could easily make up more)
Who was responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing?
a) Ron Jeremy
b) Cecil Adams
c) Kermit the Frog
d) A disgruntled white guy between the ages of 17 and 40
Guess we should make sure that all white guys travelling in the US should get treated like criminals.
Canuck, honestly, if another big terrorist attack is planned and attempted in the US, my money would be on it coming from (d). Sure, some white kids might shoot up a school, or a wacko will send a letter bomb, but we KNOW that there’s a group of ‘extremist muslims’ out there looking to get us good.
When it comes to airport security, I’d rather they use methods that consider likely sources of attack, instead of straight up randomness. I would prefer THOUGHT be put into the process, and the best process available to us be used. If that is random checks, then so be it, but I don’t want it to be a feel-good choice, just to say we’re not racist.
Looks like a 12 to 1 ratio of Muslim violence to white right winger violence.
Not that that justifies profiling, but I get tired of Tim McVeigh being brought up every time Islamic extremism is discussed. We should NOT practice racial discrimination, but let’s also address the fact that there is much more danger of terrorism from the MidEast at the moment than from crazy white guys (if you don’t count the present administration in that category).
Who blew up an abortion clinic and set off a bomb at the olympics in Atlanta?
Who shot and killed a random black couple to earn a spiderweb tattoo?
What cult leader and child molester instigated a mass suicide in Waco, Texas?
Do I really have to go on and on with every instance of anti-abortion terrorism, white racist terrorism, anti-gay terrorism, etc. in the last twenty years or so?
Those darn extremists are so easy to pick out, that wacky hair, those dirty dusty clothes, kalashnikov rifles, and a wild look in their eyes. I have no qualms with Airport security stopping and questioning those who fit all of the above descriptions.
CuriousCanuck: that quiz you reproduced isn’t really a strawman argument. (It’s not really an argument at all; more like a bittersweet satire of PC cavilling at what I consider to be necessary law-enforcement measures.)
Not to mention the obvious elephant in the room here – the only clear-cut case of racism here is that held by the terrorists – against Jews and Americans (and to a lesser degree, probably all Christians/Westerners/Anglo-Saxon types). So go ahead and publicize the quiz (which reads like vintage National Lampoon material, BTW) – you’re just underscoring the growing American general consensus that “Muslim male extremists…” are indeed a mortal threat to all of us.
Just curious, ya dumb schmuck, about how you’d react to the following scenario:
"AP – U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources report that there has been increased ‘chatter’ in Arab terrorist circles which refer to a 20-kiloton nuclear weapon purportedly already smuggled into the Montreal area.
According to a high-level State Department source, the info has been conveyed to the Canadian government…"
Would you really want for your local law-enforcement authorities to not focus on male Muslim extremists?
