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GOP Congressman Defends Profiling At Airports: ‘Political Correctness Won’t Save Any Lives’

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Remember that Congressman who was angry that airport security randomly patted down a grandma and a child, but let a man in “Arabian dress” pass through? Well Republican Congressman Paul Broun is back, this time on Fox News, and he’s not retreating from his demand that the TSA start focusing on the “real” terrorists, which apparently might include anyone in “Arabian attire.”

Broun declares that the current procedures used by the TSA have been an “abysmal failure” and are a complete waste of money. Instead he argues, “we need to focus on those people who are trying to harm us as a nation” and stop worrying about political correctness. Broun argues political correctness enabled the Fort Hood shooting to take place, and he apparently has seen enough. “Stop patting down grandma and little kids” he concludes, and given his position on the Homeland Security Committee, if he repeats it often enough maybe it can serve as a rallying cry to help convince his colleagues to support new procedures.

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  • Liberal Tormentor

    Well not everyone in Muslim garb is a terrorist, but if you have 3 people, one an infant, one a grannie, and one a male in Muslim garb, which one is most likely to be a terrorist if one of the 3 is, based on historical events. DUH!

  • Moderate

    They must search Grannies and small children, while ignoring the nervous Arab, to prove to the Liberals that they are not profiling,

  • Glackin

    From a guy who wants to close his alma mater (except for the football team) for being too liberal, that’s some serious thought.

  • writer

    At least the lefties on a hi-jacked plane can have that warm feeling that they stayed politically correct.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    I asked this the last time this story was reported… but can someone who disagrees with Rep Braun tell me why it’s a good thing to pat down old women and children? What are we hoping to gain by that?

  • felixw

    Every attempt to blow up a plane in recent history has been made by a young Muslim male. Every single one of them. A huge percent of the culprits are named Mohammed. That’s not racial profiling, but historical fact. It can be easily documented by anyone who cares about the truth. Of course, the liberal mindset wants to pretend this isn’t the case — but that’s the problem with liberal political correctness. It’s premised to pretending things are different from what they are. Facts and the truth are sacrificed to their self-imposed political correctness.

    By the way, this is a major reason why liberals don’t like to participate in open debates with conservatives. Since so much of liberal doctrine is based on deliberate pretense — and they know it — they usually lose these debates. They abandon facts whenever they clash with liberal dogma. Time and again, the facts just don’t back them up, as they themselves realize (although they try to suppress this knowledge into their subconscious along with all the other true facts they pretend don’t exist). Yet it comes at a price: when you sacrifice the truth for political expediency, you are always likely to lose in an honest, open debate.

  • Moderate

    I used to go to work at 3AM and the Blacks were complaining that they were profiled and being pulled over by police, at night, so they started pulling me over in order to be fair and balanced.

  • A.R.

    Demagogue : A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument

  • A.R.

    Moderate said:
    I used to go to work at 3AM and the Blacks were complaining that they were profiled and being pulled over by police, at night, so they started pulling me over in order to be fair and balanced.

    and you see nothing wrong with black ppl being pulled over? only when they start doing it to you, it’s a problem huh?

  • A.R.

    the right and their racist tendencies…

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    A.R. said:
    the right and their racist tendencies…

    Isn’t it equally racist to ignore or shun an entire group of people, because you think they’re “more easily offended,” or “deserve special treatment?” Isn’t that too, the definition of racism?

  • Moderate

    In an area that is 80% black one would assume that most stops involved blacks. It did not bother me, it was usually the same Cop and the same left turn.

  • paul1149

    It’s probably not going to happen, and ultimately it won’t be effective enough, as the terrorists work their way into white and black American society. What should happen is what the Israelis use – behavioral profiling. They are masters at discerning intent, and they protect their public places without pat-downs. They are looking for people, not objects of destruction. But the Crats will not allow their politically correct system to be challenged. It’s almost like they want our security to fail.

  • purveyor

    Question to the Political left:

    Say, an Alien Race, paid a visit to the planet earth, wanting to learn about the history of earth as well as the contemporary, day to day activities and conflicts on the planet.

    (Remember, this question is for the Left)

    Could you, the Political Left, explain, to an enlightened and technologically advanced Alien being(s), why profiling is bad policy and searching children and little old ladies is efficacious, while allowing the more likely perpetrator(s) to pass by unhindered?

    My guess is that the Aliens would conclude that many Earthlings, have misinterpreted their own laws to their own detriment.

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

  • Barack Must Go

    That scenario is played over & over again across this country. This is but one of the outrageous bi products of Barack Obama’s ” Death To America & Israel ” manifesto.

  • Barry Bonds

    Barack Must Go said:
    That scenario is played over & over again across this country. This is but one of the outrageous bi products of Barack Obama’s ” Death To America & Israel ” manifesto.

    Wow, out of all the stupid posts on this thread this has got to be the STUPIDEST!!!!

    It’s all Obamas fault. Insane.

    Why do you stop the kid? Because 10 year olds are strong enough to carry back packs filled with explosives or underwear filled with explosives.. Same thing for granny!

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Barry Bonds said:
    Wow, out of all the stupid posts on this thread this has got to be the STUPIDEST!!!!

    It’s all Obamas fault. Insane.

    Why do you stop the kid? Because 10 year olds are strong enough to carry back packs filled with explosives or underwear filled with explosives.. Same thing for granny!

    Ah, so we inconvenience the elderly and the young, despite no evidence of that type of attack every being tried, and ignore the other folks because… um… well, you tell me? Why do we spend out time on “granny” and the “10 year olds,” while ignore people far more likely to actually be responsible for an attack?

  • Gasket

    ImNotBlue said:
    Why do we spend out time on “granny” and the “10 year olds,” while ignore people far more likely to actually be responsible for an attack?

    Like white males?
    http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/1995/oklahoma_city_bombing/ok.html

  • Gasket

    Moderate said:
    I used to go to work at 3AM and the Blacks were complaining that they were profiled and being pulled over by police, at night, so they started pulling me over in order to be fair and balanced.

    Did that make you mad?

  • Liberal Tormentor

    Gasket, got anything newer than 1995?

  • Universaltruth

    The only people I hate worse than baggers are muslims. Profile away!

  • Nature Freak

    It’s a shame such a cool city like Athens, Ga has to have this troglodyte as their congressional Representative.

  • Barack Must Go

    Barry Bonds said:
    Wow, out of all the stupid posts on this thread this has got to be the STUPIDEST!!!!

    It’s all Obamas fault. Insane.

    Why do you stop the kid? Because 10 year olds are strong enough to carry back packs filled with explosives or underwear filled with explosives.. Same thing for granny!

    But then they allowed Barack’s uncle Ahkmed dressed in a manburka to go through unacosted, so get up off you knees and let Barack get back to his golf or basketball game, you’re embarrassing yourself for crying out loud.

  • Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    But then they allowed Barack’s uncle Ahkmed dressed in a manburka to go through unacosted, so get up off you knees and let Barack get back to his golf or basketball game, you’re embarrassing yourself for crying out loud.

    If you were human, you would be an embarrassment to the entire race.

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  • news_junkie

    It’s simple Congressman. There is a thing called The Constitution that is supposed to prevent this behavior from the federal government, whether it is someone dressed in Arab garb, Granny or a child. It’s ALL unconstitutional. But then again, I suppose you support the federal government tapping people without a warrant too.

  • Barack Must Go

    Glackin said:
    If you were human, you would be an embarrassment to the entire race.

    The truth shall set you free yet you fight it with every fibre of your being……why?

  • Barack Must Go

    felixw said:
    Every attempt to blow up a plane in recent history has been made by a young Muslim male. Every single one of them. A huge percent of the culprits are named Mohammed. That’s not racial profiling, but historical fact. It can be easily documented by anyone who cares about the truth. Of course, the liberal mindset wants to pretend this isn’t the case — but that’s the problem with liberal political correctness. It’s premised to pretending things are different from what they are. Facts and the truth are sacrificed to their self-imposed political correctness.

    By the way, this is a major reason why liberals don’t like to participate in open debates with conservatives. Since so much of liberal doctrine is based on deliberate pretense — and they know it — they usually lose these debates. They abandon facts whenever they clash with liberal dogma. Time and again, the facts just don’t back them up, as they themselves realize (although they try to suppress this knowledge into their subconscious along with all the other true facts they pretend don’t exist). Yet it comes at a price: when you sacrifice the truth for political expediency, you are always likely to lose in an honest, open debate.

    The left in barack obama”s amerika willingly choose islamic terrorists rights over the lives of ” real ” American women & children.

    This all out assault on America by the obama regime cannot be allowed to fester any longer……Barack Must Go, our very lives depend on it.

  • purveyor

    Nature Freak said:

    It’s a shame such a cool city like Athens, Ga has to have this troglodyte as their congressional Representative.

    To: NATURE FREAK,

    I’ve read some of your Posts, so I think I know what your Political inclinations are. With that in mind, why would you be so “politically incorrect” and disparage or offend Troglodytes? After all, Trogs have feelings too! Troglodytes had/have an alternative lifestyle, and here you are using them as a negative stereotype. Shame on you. I’m certain there will be protest rallies in the Park and new laws proposed!

    In fact, one could argue that troglodytes were some of the first “Nature Lovers”. Just like Ted Nugent, they killed and ate their own food. Then again, you probably don’t like “Ted” either?

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

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  • BR

    ImNotBlue said:
    I asked this the last time this story was reported… but can someone who disagrees with Rep Braun tell me why it’s a good thing to pat down old women and children? What are we hoping to gain by that?

    They won’t answer your question because inside they know that you are right. So instead they (liberals) will just call you racist.

  • Alz

    It’s funny how the left complains about profiling when they are the biggest profilers. At every step of the way, they need to know the “who” so they can formulate a response to a situation. They are the ones who divide people into groups.

    It started in the 60′s when they came up with the “Special Interests” at the DNC conventions. This way they could figure out who gets what – and it’s all based on race, etc, not character.

  • http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-explains-how-the-unions-are-using-teachers-firefighters-and-co ImNotBlue

    Gasket said:
    Like white males?http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/national/1995/oklahoma_city_bombing/ok.html

    Sure, white males should obviously get more attention than small children and grandmothers. What’s wrong with that?

    news_junkie said:
    It’s simple Congressman. There is a thing called The Constitution that is supposed to prevent this behavior from the federal government, whether it is someone dressed in Arab garb, Granny or a child. It’s ALL unconstitutional. But then again, I suppose you support the federal government tapping people without a warrant too.

    You mean the stuff that Obama reauthorized?

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  • Gasket

    Alz said:
    It’s funny how the left complains about profiling when they are the biggest profilers. At every step of the way, they need to know the “who” so they can formulate a response to a situation. They are the ones who divide people into groups.

    It started in the 60’s when they came up with the “Special Interests” at the DNC conventions. This way they could figure out who gets what – and it’s all based on race, etc, not character.

    Yeah…the left likes profiling. Just like you are profiling them in your post above. Way to make your point Einstein.

    ImNotBlue said:
    Sure, white males should obviously get more attention than small children and grandmothers. What’s wrong with that?

    You mean the stuff that Obama reauthorized?

    So you have no problem with white males being pulled out of a line and getting enhanced, invasive searches since they are likely terrorist suspects…right? I just want to verify whether you agree with Broun or not!

  • writer

    Gasket, should we profile anyone?

  • Nacho

    This guy is an absolute idi0t and is just digging himself in a bigger hole and the images that FoxNews choice to use during the interview were absolutely hilarious.

  • Nacho

    ImNotBlue said:
    I asked this the last time this story was reported… but can someone who disagrees with Rep Braun tell me why it’s a good thing to pat down old women and children? What are we hoping to gain by that?

    The simple obvious answer is when old women and children aren’t patted down, terrorists will use old women and children to blow up planes.

    I’m not saying I agree with the TSA methods of patting down anybody, but c’mon, are you really that dense to not get it? Do you really think an Arabian terrorist is going to dress like an Arab when they know the TSA is looking just for Arabs?

  • writer

    So Arabs don’t look like Arabs unless they’re dressed like Arabs.

  • Nature Freak

    To PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC …

    You are so right. So let me here deeply apologize to all those Troglodytes in our evolutionary past or still existing today in some unexplored wilderness or even among us. Any Troglodytes in our past or present running for election in Georgia’s 10th congressional district would be a considerable improvement over Congressman Paul Broun . Personally i question if Rep. Broun (as well as many others in American politics today) is even a carbon based life form.

  • Nature Freak

    Replacing Rep. Broun with someone who actually does a better job…. It’s So Easy a Caveman Can Do It and outperform him.

  • murphy0071

    Since most Repuglicans are hooligans, thugs, and anti-intellectual bar brawlers of which Paul Brown is a perfect example, just wait and see.

  • CAconservative

    To not use profiling is about as moronic as it gets. Tell a police department they can’t use profiling to find a criminal suspect! This political correctness crap is going to get people killed!

  • CLTstraightguy

    Nacho said:
    The simple obvious answer is when old women and children aren’t patted down, terrorists will use old women and children to blow up planes.

    I’m not saying I agree with the TSA methods of patting down anybody, but c’mon, are you really that dense to not get it? Do you really think an Arabian terrorist is going to dress like an Arab when they know the TSA is looking just for Arabs?

    Sure they will, because Jerkalist like the one above are giving them a free pass by saying that we are discriminating by profiling Arabs. Hey sorry about the profiling, maybe when your people stop killing our people in the name of your god, we will cut the profiling out. Until then maybe you should be on a crusade to tell all your Muslim Brothers and Sisters that these people don’t represent us and are not Muslim, ahhh but they can’t! Because if a person admits, that Allah is god and Mohammad is his prophet then they are welcomed into Mecca as a Muslim irregardless of how many people (Infidels) they kill.

    You know I have Arab friends, who are Christian’s and they say they take every precaution when they go travel leave extra early and make sure everything is in order according to TSA guidelines. They said they are glad and relieved when they are profiled, even though it is a little bit of an inconvenience they say we are happy to know that security is on the ball and are watching out for everyone.

  • Nacho

    writer said:
    So Arabs don’t look like Arabs unless they’re dressed like Arabs.

    It’s mind blowing, referring to how people dress as a way to profile is a ridiculous argument but they keep trying to use it.

    Do you think Paul Broun really means profile by race?

  • CLTstraightguy

    purveyor said:
    To: NATURE FREAK,

    I’ve read some of your Posts, so I think I know what your Political inclinations are. With that in mind, why would you be so “politically incorrect” and disparage or offend Troglodytes? After all, Trogs have feelings too! Troglodytes had/have an alternative lifestyle, and here you are using them as a negative stereotype. Shame on you. I’m certain there will be protest rallies in the Park and new laws proposed!

    In fact, one could argue that troglodytes were some of the first “Nature Lovers”. Just like Ted Nugent, they killed and ate their own food. Then again, you probably don’t like “Ted” either?

    PURVEYOR OF RHETORIC

    If there was ever an apocalypse People like you would be dying in droves, if people like Ted Nugent didn’t go and hunt food to feed your sorry mouths.

  • http://none pyrope

    The answer to the Muslim terrorist prevention thing was solved long, long ago! In case you missed it, here it is again:

    1. ALL flight crew members shall work topless. Muslims act like Dracula seeing a cross or clove of garlic when they see too much skin.

    2. ALL flights will server alcoholic beverages and each passenger SHALL be required to drink at least one martini.

    3. Gospel music and punk rock tunes shall be played alternately on the intercom for the duration of the flight and the pilot SHALL pray over the intercom, mentioning Jesus Christ at least four times, in the prayer.

    And just in case items 1 through 3 don’t work:

    4. No persons with brown eyes and names that sound like an old lady clearing phlegm from her throat shall be allowed to board ANY aircraft in, or bound for, the USA.

    Does that assuage your worries or WHAT?

  • http://none pyrope

    murphy0071 said:
    Since most Repuglicans are hooligans, thugs, and anti-intellectual bar brawlers

    You mean sort of like the Crips, Bloods, MS-13, the average union goon, the black panthers, and those folks?

  • http://none pyrope

    A.R. said:
    and you see nothing wrong with black ppl being pulled over? only when they start doing it to you, it’s a problem huh?

    You should write for your free copy of “Crime in America,” published each year by the Department of Justice, and read the stats.

  • Steve_27

    If there’s one message worth repeating this is it. He’s right.

  • http://profiles.google.com/mepowell813 Mark Powell

    The point should be that the TSA is doing their entire job incorrectly. Besides with the chock point that the security check points have become, if a terrorist wanted a suitable attack they’d blow up the check point, not the airplane. The granny or child is just as likely to have a bomb placed on them. Or do you think that no terrorists have elderly relatives or followers, or children they’d be willing to sacrifice? The whole thing is a sham because we have all sacrificed our personal liberty for a false illusion of security. We can NEVER really be safe, that is completely impossible. We have never been safe, never will be, and should not expect to be. The Patriot Act only works to piss off more people into becoming terrorists.

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