See this guy? He served honorably in the U.S. military for 13 years. Now, he works as a pilot for a regional airline.
Except he may lose his job in a month or so, because it seems he’s on a terror watch list. He must clear his name to keep his job, and he’s been given no real direction on what he must do to accomplish such.
Oh, and I must mention something else: he’s a convert to Islam. His wife is from Pakistan, and she wears one of those goddam rags on her head. Worse, she sells books and DVDs and shit about Islam.
So, clearly, they can’t fly. Who the hell knows what they might start?
What has happened to my fucking country?
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So where can we move?
So we should just hunker down and say “well, thank God it’s not worse”?
Could we please kick little things like the First Amendment and presumption of innocence a little further up the chart where they belong?
God/dess, but this pisses me off. All I can do is shake my head in disgust, though, and try make sure that no one I know makes assumptions like those that are being made about this man.
Your country is acting like it always has. Anyone, or one group of people can be victims of the latest “ism”.
Charles: I think it’s highly arguable whether denying a citizen the gainful employment for which he has trained for more than a decade by placing him on a blacklist, and then giving him no instructions for removing himself from said list, is my country “acting like it always has.”
Nevertheless, this man has committed no crime. He has, however, converted to a religion that shares a name with that professed by those who are waging war upon us. Also, his wife is from a part of the world in which some of those who are waging war upon us are hiding. Are these sufficient factors to deny him liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Do you disagree with my statement that he is being denied such?
Whether it’s the U.S. acting like it always has or not–and like I said, I think that’s a hell of a discussion right there–is it all right with you that this is happening to this person?
Charles: You know, on further consideration, you’re right. We locked up Japanese people just for being Japanese 65 years ago. Punitive action against people for what they might do is not without precedent in the U.S., however alien such a notion is to our founders’ intentions.
So perhaps the last sentence in my original post was indeed problematic. Perhaps I should have said “What has happened to the principles upon which my country was founded?”
I am absolutely not okay with our country behaving like this, but I’m at a loss as to what I can do about it (beyond making noise in my own little corner of the world and making sure I raise my kids to be outraged by crap like this…)