I find it ironic that a reporter fighting against racial profiling uses the following illustration: Imagine what could happen, the implication of this, for all sorts of communities. But the way that Muslims, Arabs, Pakistanis, others in our society are targeted in this post-9/11 world, imagine if you are an Arab man and you have a beard, and you are driving your car in a rural community somewhere in the SOUTH (emphasis mine) in the United States, and you have a busted tail light, and a sheriff’s deputy pulls you over at night because of the busted tail light. The sheriff goes up, he takes your license, he goes back, and he runs it. He sees that he has someone that has been designated by the U.S. intelligence community as a known or suspected terrorist. What kind of danger is this individ ual going to be in now? And let’s say that it’s a case of mistaken identity, that he’s not actually a known or suspected terrorist, but he has the same name as someone, or his number popped up in someone else’s phone. The likelihood of that sheriff thinking he has a suicide bomber in the car is probably pretty high. And so, this could have real-life implications for the liberty and also life of people. - Jeremy Scahill on NPRs Democracy Now (Tuesday, July 29, 2014) His story concerning the governments indiscriminate placing of individuals on the Known or Suspected Terrorist (KST) list is legitimate, but he lost a little credibility in my estimation with that bit of condescension.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:57:02 +0000
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