Big Sister Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security have released an “unprejudiced” promotional video on airport security. That’s right, just about all of the “potential” terrorists in the video appear to be white, middle class, and male. To top it off, they really should have slapped Michele Bachmann buttons on the “terrorist’s” Ron Paul t-shirts. From Info Wars:
The video is part of Homeland Security’s $10 million dollar “See Something, Say Something” program that encourages Americans to report “suspicious activity,” which in every case throughout history has been a trait of oppressive, dictatorial regimes.
In the course of the 10 minute clip, a myriad of different behaviors are characterized as terrorism, including opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.
Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Asian or Arab. Imagine if the video had portrayed every terrorist as an Arab and every patriotic snoop as white, there’d be an outcry and rightly so, but this strange reversal must have been deliberate on the part of the DHS, but why? Is this merely political correctness taken to the extreme or is something deeper at work?
Well, the video would have been so much better if only they would have included disabled men, 3-year old children, and 90-year old women in wheelchairs – you know, those prime TSA targets. Oh well, there’s always a next time.
