U.S. History Test

Off Topic Politics and World Issues
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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
Solomon Grundy wrote:

  1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
    a. Superman
    b. Jay Leno
    c. Harry Potter
    d. a Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40

  2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and
    massacred by
    a. Olga Corbett
    b. Sitting Bull
    c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  3. I n 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
    a. Lost Norwegians
    b. Elvis
    c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  4. During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in
    Lebanon by:
    a. John Dillinger
    b. The King of Sweden
    c. The Boy Scouts
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
    a. A pizza delivery boy
    b. Pee Wee Herman
    c. Geraldo Rivera
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year
    old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his
    wheelchair by:
    a. The Smurfs
    b. Davey Jones
    c. The Little Mermaid
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy
    diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
    a. Captain Kidd
    b. Charles Lindberg
    c. Mother Teresa
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
    a. Scooby Doo
    b. The Tooth Fairy and The Sundance Kid
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  9. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
    a. Richard Simmons
    b. Grandma Moses
    c. Michael Jordan
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
    a. Mr. Rogers
    b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’s women
    problems
    c. The World Wrestling Federation
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as
    missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining
    two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted
    and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
    a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
    b. The Supreme Court of Florida
    c. Mr. Bean
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
    a. Enron
    b. The Lutheran Church
    c. The NFL
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

  13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
    a. Bonnie and Clyde
    b. Captain Kangaroo
    c. Billy Graham
    d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, .I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do
you? So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly
fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no
longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct
random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots
with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the
President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal
hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but
leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be
guilty of profiling. Let’s send this to as many people as we can so
that the Gloria Aldreds and other dunder-headed attorneys along
with Federal Justices that want to thwart common sense, feel doubly
ashamed of themselves – if they have any such sense. As the writer
of the award winning story “Forrest Gump” so aptly put it, “Stupid
is as stupid does.”

Obviously I copied this, but it makes a strong argument for profiling.

SG

I think this is a brilliant post! Just like with my students, a good stock of examples is a good thing to have. Thank you for posting this!

Headhunter

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More and more I’m getting the impression that everything you post on here is sarcastic…

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[quote]juninho wrote:

More and more I’m getting the impression that everything you post on here is sarcastic…[/quote]

Dare to dream… dare to dream.

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HH is not sarcastic.

We are talking about the same asthmatic chicken-hawk that thinks I enlist in the Marines and go to Iraq.

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
Solomon Grundy wrote:
pookie wrote:
juninho wrote:
that’s a good post - I never realised that all 13 of the 13 crimes ever committed since 1968 were carried out by these people…

Well, we all know that whites don’t commit crimes and that blacks prey on other blacks, so they don’t count.

Timothy McVeigh: Shi’ite or Sunni?

John Hinckley Jr.: Muslim or Moslem?

Kevin Mitnick: Al-Qaeda agent?

Having said that I do agree with racial profiling. Without it the British governments would never have caught up with the notorious Birmingham 6 or the Guilford 4 back in the 80’s and 90’s. Sure it may inconvenience some people, but if you aint guilty then you got nowt to worry about.

Exactly. Only criminals need privacy.

At least we can agree on your first part of your post about blacks. Really what this test shows us is the superiority of the white race over all other inferior races. It also provides reasons that support that America is the only base for civilization left in the world.

We will just have to assume that other nationalities have been corrupted by these sub-humans and that their genetic makeup has irrevocably flawed.

I can only pray that the Lord our God will see this and rain fire from heaven to purify the world be removing all ?Mud people? and those other than those of American heritage. This will remove all ?Spawn of Satan? and bringing the New Age a Heaven on Earth. Finally there will be peace on earth.

Is that enough sarcasm for you? Whitie has dibs on Serial killer, Child Molesting, White collar crime and I?m sure there are more. You make it sound like racial profiling is in place of everything else.

If you are looking for a serial killer and your goal is to get them off the street as quickly as possible, why would you not use everything at your disposal to accomplish that goal? The same goes for a Terrorist.

If you are looking for a terrorist, why waste your time on an elderly oriental woman? I personally am not worried about being inconvenienced as long as it keeps my plane from blowing up.

By the way who said anything about privacy?

Because of course terrorists are retards, and once they figure out that Muslims with beards and turbans are targeted, they will stop blowing up planes with the public admission of, “You caught us you white devils you!! We are done!”

They sure as shit won’t change their appearence and keep blowing shit up…

Man, I am getting the feeling that you and SteveO are the same hateful idiotic jerkoff…[/quote]

First of all, I never jerk off! I was cleaning it once and it went off on its own! As I stated earlier, use racial profiling as a tool. Will every terrorist fit the profile? Will it catch every terrorist all by itself? Of course the answer is no.

Since we are talking about terrorists, and the terrorists that pose the greatest threat are Islamic extremists, why not use that as a starting point? There is nothing hateful about that. If I were trying to be hateful or suggesting that racial profiling is the answer by itself, then I would be suggesting that we set up camps like they did for people of Japanese decent in WWII.

Again, I am not saying that every person of that race and that age group should be taken into custody. What I am saying is use common sense in who we search and how we search them. This would allow us to use our time and resources more wisely and I believe be more effective.

If we were looking for a bomber of an Abortion Clinic then I would suggest a different kind of profiling with race (white) being a part of it. Right now we need to change our tactics and we will have to change them again in the future. We need to adapt to the threat.

Our adaptation will need to be an ongoing process. It may not always come across in my responses, but my goal is to show love, compassion and a hope for peace.

Assalaam `alaikum

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[quote]Solomon Grundy wrote:

Since we are talking about terrorists, and the terrorists that pose the greatest threat are Islamic extremists, why not use that as a starting point? There is nothing hateful about that. If I were trying to be hateful or suggesting that racial profiling is the answer by itself, then I would be suggesting that we set up camps like they did for people of Japanese decent in WWII.

Again, I am not saying that every person of that race and that age group should be taken into custody. What I am saying is use common sense in who we search and how we search them. This would allow us to use our time and resources more wisely and I believe be more effective.

If we were looking for a bomber of an Abortion Clinic then I would suggest a different kind of profiling with race (white) being a part of it. Right now we need to change our tactics and we will have to change them again in the future. We need to adapt to the threat.

Our adaptation will need to be an ongoing process. It may not always come across in my responses, but my goal is to show love, compassion and a hope for peace.

Assalaam `alaikum
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Did not you read the post above regarding the white male and 24 year old mother arrested for conspiring to blow planes up?? How would racial profiling have helped there??

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Profiling would have caused less people to be searched and focused on, freeing up the inspectors to spend more time on the others. Since it’s a numbers game perhaps they would have caught these two.

We shouldn’t dismiss profiling entirely. It’s not all about race and religion.

A “profile” is made of a likely terrorist. It should be based on past history, current intelligence and the behavior of the people being searched. Part of it is asking them seemingly innocent questions and watching how they respond to the answer.

Most recent terrorist acts are caused by men. Mostly younger men. That narrows it down. Men from Middle Eastern countries seem over represented among current terrorist threats. There’s another point to add into the profile. Frequent travel to the Middle East, ticket recently purchased, passenger flying on the same flight often in the previous months and sitting in the same seat. Find the pattern.

The issue was recently the subject of a book “Flying Blind”. It wasn’t so much about targeting specific folks for extra scrutiny but not wasting time on obvious non threats. Philadelphia Airport was used as an example. The TSA seemed to have a special hard on for military people, travelling in uniform, with valid orders.

The author questioned wht the TSA wasted time searching them but seemed hesitiant to search young men from Islamic countries due to the risk of offending them and being written up. On balance why waste time searching men who have virtually no chance of being hijackers vs. a pool of people who have spawned many hijackers.

You base your profile on one characteristic, race for example, and you will be defeated easily.

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[quote]juninho wrote:

Did not you read the post above regarding the white male and 24 year old mother arrested for conspiring to blow planes up?? How would racial profiling have helped there??[/quote]

I read it. I can only respond to one at a time. Please read the post that you quoted. Just because I am suggesting using Racial Profiling doesn?t mean that we toss everything else out. Could racial Profiling have helped with those that planned and cried out 9-11? Could Racial Profiling have helped prevent the bombings of trains and buses in London?

If we did not waste time searching and questioning every single person and be more selective we could be more effective. See the quotes below. They are from my previous post.

As I stated earlier, use racial profiling as a tool. Will every terrorist fit the profile? Will it catch every terrorist all by itself? Of course the answer is no.

Since we are talking about terrorists, and the terrorists that pose the greatest threat are Islamic extremists, why not use that as a starting point.

What I am saying is use common sense in who we search and how we search them. This would allow us to use our time and resources more wisely and I believe be more effective.

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Hedo, Thanks for making that point. I have been focusing on Racial Profiling and that is only a part of what could be used. My point is that just because it is not PC we shouldn’t disregard it.

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Solomon Grundy makes a very good point regarding profiling. That some of the wacko’s on this board choose to attack him for it is no surprise.

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[quote]juninho wrote:
There was a fine example of racial profiling in action this week on a plane from Malaga to the UK, where passengers got so alarmed by the presence of two Asian men on the plane they staged a walk-off, and had the men arrested at gun point. Both men were students. Unarmed. Not remotely dangerous. Good work all the same though, they may have plotted an attack later on in life and hopefully this display of strength will now deter them.

Another point to ponder; One of the people arrested for plotting to blow up trans-atlantic flights last week is a white man who converted to Islam in his twenties. One other is a 24 year old mother. Would either of these have been picked up at the airport if we went down the racial profiling route?[/quote]

The solution is simple.

Remove the security checks, metal detectors, bomb sniffers and all the rest of the irritating procedures from our airports.

Replace them with charming hostesses offering bacon bits to passengers.

You don’t eat the bacon - you don’t fly.

Quite simple really.

Hehehehe …

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[quote]coolexec wrote:
juninho wrote:
There was a fine example of racial profiling in action this week on a plane from Malaga to the UK, where passengers got so alarmed by the presence of two Asian men on the plane they staged a walk-off, and had the men arrested at gun point. Both men were students. Unarmed. Not remotely dangerous. Good work all the same though, they may have plotted an attack later on in life and hopefully this display of strength will now deter them.

Another point to ponder; One of the people arrested for plotting to blow up trans-atlantic flights last week is a white man who converted to Islam in his twenties. One other is a 24 year old mother. Would either of these have been picked up at the airport if we went down the racial profiling route?

The solution is simple.

Remove the security checks, metal detectors, bomb sniffers and all the rest of the irritating procedures from our airports.

Replace them with charming hostesses offering bacon bits to passengers.

You don’t eat the bacon - you don’t fly.

Quite simple really.

Hehehehe …[/quote]

Terrorists do eat bacon, if it is for a good cause.

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[quote]Z-Man wrote:
40% of Americans support Muslim ID tags, I don’t believe any semi-intelligent Muslims should still be living in a place where they are no longer welcome.
[/quote]

And just why are they no longer welcome? Is it because there are crazy-ass extremist Muslims who want to kill everyone? No! It’s because the main-stream Muslim community has not publicly and often denounced the actions of the extremists. By not standing up against the extremists in the OWN group they passively support them.

So this is why we should profile the hell out of every Muslim.

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[quote]Lorisco wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
40% of Americans support Muslim ID tags, I don’t believe any semi-intelligent Muslims should still be living in a place where they are no longer welcome.

And just why are they no longer welcome? Is it because there are crazy-ass extremist Muslims who want to kill everyone? No! It’s because the main-stream Muslim community has not publicly and often denounced the actions of the extremists. By not standing up against the extremists in the OWN group they passively support them.

So this is why we should profile the hell out of every Muslim.

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And when did you stand up against the extremists in your group?

I suggest we profile the hell out of your entire race.

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[quote]Lorisco wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
40% of Americans support Muslim ID tags, I don’t believe any semi-intelligent Muslims should still be living in a place where they are no longer welcome.

And just why are they no longer welcome? Is it because there are crazy-ass extremist Muslims who want to kill everyone? No! It’s because the main-stream Muslim community has not publicly and often denounced the actions of the extremists. By not standing up against the extremists in the OWN group they passively support them.

So this is why we should profile the hell out of every Muslim.

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How do you know they don’t condemn it? Do you see Muslims in the US dancing around every time they hear the word “Al-Queda” or “jihad” mentioned?

Do you know one Jewish organization that denounces Israel’s violence? Or one Christian organization that denounced Nazi Germany? Could you even name a Muslim league?

Don’t worry Lorisco, no need to scramble for Wikipedia to prove me wrong. All I can say is that ninety percent of the Muslims in this country want what ninety percent of everyone else in this country wants- a chance to be happy, make money, and raise kids in a good town.

I know it kills you, but they are Americans too, and Muslims have no reason to scramble to denounce every terrorist attack made- my bet is they don’t like it. No one in my family ever denounced the IRA because of all their shit.

Leave them be. The fact that “ID tags” can be suggested for Americans is sickening and disgusting. You would not be so quick to say these idiotic things if Christians were bombing things…oh wait, they do. Like abortion clinics and buildings in Oklahoma.

Time for your ID tag Lorisco…wouldn’t want you blowing up a doctors office…

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[quote]Lorisco wrote:
Z-Man wrote:
40% of Americans support Muslim ID tags, I don’t believe any semi-intelligent Muslims should still be living in a place where they are no longer welcome.

And just why are they no longer welcome? Is it because there are crazy-ass extremist Muslims who want to kill everyone? No! It’s because the main-stream Muslim community has not publicly and often denounced the actions of the extremists. By not standing up against the extremists in the OWN group they passively support them.

So this is why we should profile the hell out of every Muslim.

[/quote]

By the way, did the Japanese actively riot about Japan’s actions in WWII?

Not like it mattered, because those internment camps happened anyway. And, ironically, it is looked on as one of the most ignorant and racist things in the history of the country.

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I still think we are failing to address the imminent smurf threat…

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As far as I’m concerned racial profiling violates:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

So, based on my personal interpretation, racial profiling would be a violation of personal rights and be an attack on the ideals the country is founded on. I’m willing to risk dying to uphold that fundamental right, for everyone. This thread is just an affirmation for me that all of the “I’m willing to die for my country” talk is mostly bullshit.

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[quote]Moriarty wrote:
As far as I’m concerned racial profiling violates:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

So, based on my personal interpretation, racial profiling would be a violation of personal rights and be an attack on the ideals the country is founded on. I’m willing to risk dying to uphold that fundamental right, for everyone. This thread is just an affirmation for me that all of the “I’m willing to die for my country” talk is mostly bullshit.
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BUT WE’RE IN A TIME OF WAR! Don’t you understand the threat??

Seriously, good post.

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[quote]Moriarty wrote:
As far as I’m concerned racial profiling violates:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

So, based on my personal interpretation, racial profiling would be a violation of personal rights and be an attack on the ideals the country is founded on. I’m willing to risk dying to uphold that fundamental right, for everyone. This thread is just an affirmation for me that all of the “I’m willing to die for my country” talk is mostly bullshit.
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The protections of the Constitution only apply to U.S. citizens. There is nothing un-American about doing full cavity searches of every foreigner who tries to enter the country.

It is un-American to be such a pussy leftist who is so afraid of offending someone that you are willing to let America be destroyed instead of exercising a little common sense.

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[quote]doogie wrote:

The protections of the Constitution only apply to U.S. citizens. There is nothing un-American about doing full cavity searches of every foreigner who tries to enter the country.

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Full cavity searches are the epitome of being an american :slight_smile: