Profile Away

As I’m sure you’re aware, Sarah Palin thinks law enforcement should be allowed to profile at will. “Profile away,” were her exact words, along with this explanation:

“I think that there were massive warning flags that were missed all over the place and I think that it was quite unfortunate that, to me, it was a fear of being politically incorrect to not — I am going to use the word — profile this guy — profile in the sense of finding out what his radical beliefs were. … Now, because I used the word ‘profile’ I am going to get clobbered tomorrow morning. The liberals, their heads are just going to be spinning. They’re going to say ‘she is radical, she is extreme.’ “

She is.

But profiling is profiling, so I’m sure she wouldn’t mind if law enforcement profiled the so-called Christians who are marketing biblical swag wishing for the assassination of the president.

I mentioned this before, but here’s the exact Psalm (109:8) the wingnuts are quoting these days regarding the president:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labor.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favor his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

I’m against profiling, of course, but Sarah Palin is all for it. When will she come out in support of profiling anyone who buys this swag? Profile away! Round ‘em up and throw away the key also. They could be assassins and domestic terrorists. She calls ‘em like she sees ‘em. Duh-yuck!

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  • Jan

    I can’t believe we are still talking about this moron. And we have to put up with her for 3 more YEARS??When exactly will she go away?

  • http://twitter.com/ELDING Elvis Dingeldein

    Uh, Bob? Profiling only works on Teh Coloreds and on Vaguely Middle Eastern-Looking Folk and people with Scary Arabic Names. You can’t, by definition, “profile” Whitey.

  • roxsteady

    How about profiling stupid people? No, we’ve pretty much cornered the market on stupid. This woman is so ignorant with her small town, corn pone, destruction of the english language. I can’t stand the sound of her voice.Whenever she speaks, I want to stick pencils into my ears. Below I’ve listed the following words she should drop from her limited vocabulary:Bellout – It’s Bailout you moron!Idills – That’s Ideals you titt mouse!Nukeular – It’s Nuclear, just like it’s spelled!

  • roxsteady

    I just read an article on the plumline about McCains numbers and how he could be in trouble in 2010. Greg Sargent says that, according to Bill Kristol, Palin might be asked to go to Arizona and campaign for McCain.Now, firt or all, as Sargent points out:”Yeah, okay, because Palin is known to harbor a bottomless reserve of gratitude towards the McCain camp for plucking her from relative obscurity and turning her into a national celebrity, right?”Exactly! What I’d love is for her to do for McCain what she did for Hoffman in the NY 23 race. Kick is decrepit, crusty, old ass out of office. This could get very interesting and embarrassing for both of them. Even though, so far no Democrat has stepped up to run against the geezer, I don’t really care. I just want to see these 2 humiliated…..again!

  • laddieluv

    Saw this being discussed on Rachel’s program a couple nights ago.This is really scary chit.All it takes is one un-hinged racist, extremist nut.And we know there are plenty out there.Scary, scary chit.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    You can “profile” people by ANY metric.Have you checked out a shitload of “Anarchist’s Cookbook”, Ruby Ridge, militia, How to build a Bomb crap from the library?Is your name Ali bin Mohommed Ibn Sheik Mustafa al Jihad and your passport has stamps for Pakistan-Afghanistan-Syria-Libya?Have you been purchasing a shitload of airline tickets between Miami, Florida and Cali, Colombia for other people?Has the electric bill in your remote mountain cabin suddenly increased from $30 per month to $450 per month?Profiling, quite frankly, is a perfectly legitimate investigatory tool.Making some 83-year-old grandmother from the Finger Lakes region submit to strip search at the airport because she was 17th in line would appear to be, on the face of it, a waste of time and resources, would it not?Palin, in this narrow instance and for ONCE, is perfectly correct. There WERE warning signs…and plenty of them…that were simply missed (or to be truly paranoid, ignored).That is NOT to say that every person with olive skin ought to be dragged from their car and shipped off to Gitmo…which, one suspects, is at the bottom of the cold stone that passes for Srah Palin’s heart.But the knee jerk, “You must not consider country of origin in any assessment of potential risk” is, IMO, swinging the pendulum too far.Anyone is free to spread their prayer mat facing Mecca and engage their constitutional right to Freedom of Religion.When you do so immediately before boarding a trans-Atlantic flight, please accept our apologies while we check your luggage.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    Shit…forgot to turn Bob’s words back on him….Admit this, Cesca: You WANT the people who put that Psalm bumper sticker on their truck investigated…looked at.We would ALL prefer that ANYONE who joins in a prayer for the death of the president to be examined by the authorities for NO OTHER REASON than they bought a bumper sticker calling for it.THAT’S profiling.I’m all for it.You scream, “Kill the Socialist Kenyan!”…ANYONE who expresses such things in any public forum deserves attention./sliding scales

  • roxsteady

    It’s also a two way street.”SOME SAY” that they wish for the death of all Republicans and Conservatives.See what I just did?Ah, “Some Say”. He appears to be the successor of Confucius and favorite of Beltway concern trolls.

  • roxsteady

    Some Say! Does that come with egg rolls? Yummy!

  • mrspeel2

    cousinavi said: “Palin, in this narrow instance and for ONCE, is perfectly correct. There WERE warning signs…and plenty of them…that were simply missed (or to be truly paranoid, ignored).”

    You fail to recognize that Hasan was in the military far longer under the Bush regime, than he was during President Obama’s tenure. Therefore if there is to be blame for allowing this man to serve, it lies with Bush & Co for ignoring the so-called warning signs!

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    @ mrspeel2The warning signs to which I referred were those related to 9/11. The intelligence briefing entitled “OBL determined to strike within the US”…the FBI reports identifying Islamic flight school students…the failure to pull the threads together culminating in Condi Rice’s testimony: “I didn’t do anything. No one told me to do anything. If there had been something I had needed to do, someone would have told me to do it. No one told me to do anything, so there was nothing I needed to do.”Lovely. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR waiting for instructions…FROM WHOM?As for Hasan, I don’t care who dropped the ball…it was, it would seem, available to be caught.I’m not talking about specific instances. I’m talking about whether or not it’s a valid distinction to make, when folks are boarding a plane, to more closely examine the party of blue haired senior DAR passengers, or the gang of Iranians wrapped in fresh Egyptian cotton prostrate on their prayer mats in the boarding lounge.Whether the troop of Boy Scouts from Wisconsin on their way to World Scout 09, or the swarthy Spanish speakers with bulging carry-ons destined for Medellin are more likely to be fruitful targets for law enforcement.Bob said he’s opposed to profiling.Insofar as I don’t want to see anyone slapped in manacles and dragged away on the basis of wearing a turban, neither am I prepared to say that there’s not a significant difference between a hajib and a Dodgers ball cap when assessing potential threats.

  • http://cousinavi.wordpress.com cousinavi

    ALSO @ mrspeel2:Presuming that Hasan’s troubling behaviours escalated…became more severe, more outspoken, more troubling over time (as all evidence suggests)…your premise fails.There are, in such situations, fewer early signs…which become more and more severe as time passes.It would be lovely if those who eventually snap would START OUT carrying weapons around and screaming ALLAHU ACKBAR! But they don’t. They simmer. They NURSE their paranoid grievances, holding it in til the pressure rips a seam.The signs may be there, but they’re small in the beginning. It’s only in hindsight that you see the progression.

  • Irish Girl

    *IT’S NOT ILLEGAL! I’m very liberal but used to be in law enforcement….there is legal and illegal profiling. Profiling is not illegal, biased profiling is illegal. Bias comes from profiling based on one’s built in stereotypes instead of the facts of a situation and observed behavior of an individual. Proving that profiling is based on a personally held bias is difficult. The key is lots of training for people who will engage in profiling behavior.* WHAT WERE HASAN’S SIGNS? The signs found so far, based on his last evaluation from Walter Reed just before being transferred to Ft. Hood, pointed to his being lazy and unprofessional. There was nothing to indicate he would become a mass murderer–there no real evidence of talk about jihad (some anecdotal stuff of him saying that jihad in some cases was justified but talk isn’t enough–as we see daily from “wingnuttia”)–no suspcious behavior (buying or stockpiling of weapons or dangerous chemicals)–no “substantive” networking or conspiring with known terrorists (meaning yeah he emailed a radical imam 12 times, the content of which was looked at and part of his dissertation, nothing untoward about it was found–that’s not a sign, wouldn’t get you even a warrant for a wiretap, not that the govt needs one)etc, etc, etc…….There weren’t enough signs in his private life to be reported by family, there weren’t enough in his professional life to be reported by the military…..so far there were no signs his explosion.

  • Irish Girl

    PLUS, I posted this elsewhere but it bears repeating….the Military didn’t ignore what signs they did have because of political correctness or fear of liability. They ignored it because they are in desperate need of officers and soldiers in general. Our military is stretched pretty far right now….The MSM isn’t really talking about it and the military would never fess up to it. However, Obama’s decision to look at new Afghan options is a HUGE hint that we’re stretched too thin.