I Feel Like Throwing Down the Gauntlet

 It is easy to sit back in a lazy chair and pass judgment down on others when you can just click past the offending image by moving your thumb a fraction of an inch.  What happened to compassion, to Love to care for your fellow man ...just because they need to be cared for?  Just because you may be afraid or angry or unsure of what is happening NEVER gives you the authority to abdicate the fact that you are a member of this human race just as the undesirable person is, as the black, the white, the yellow, brown and red, immigrant (illegal and legal) the slave the free, women and men.

In Michigan they are looking to pass the same type of bill that has caught fire down in Arizona...stopping suspected people and questioning them over their immigration status.  No matter how many onuses you put on this it still smacks of racism, bigotry and a wholesale denial of civil rights to me.  In Savannah, a Homeless person can be stopped at any time for any reason just because they LOOK Homeless...and now we want to stop people who LOOK illegal?  It is odious when it is done to any group and people don't seem to realize what a slippery slope this puts a nation on. 

We also have a Congressman questioning whether the Muslim community is doing enough to stop the spread of radical Islamic theology.  As if the community can be held accountable for what a kid sees on the Internet, or decides, after reading news articles and propaganda, to strike out and strike back at "The Great Satan".  When did we start blaming entire communities for the actions of a few or one (or wait, I forgot about Japanese Internment camps, McCarthyism and Rosewood)

I gave a more reasoned argument in a previous note...you may read it on my facebook notes page if you choose, but today I feel like cutting heads.

We have an expression at Grace House, "If it is good for one, it is good for all."  so lets see....

Jihadi Jane was an American citizen...and there seems to be a large push in European nations to radicalize non-assuming citizens into Jihadist.  So we should probably have the police pull over everyone who has a European flag bumper sticker on their car.  After all Al Qaeda is insidious don't you know, no stone must stay unturned to make sure that we are safe.

And since many African nations are being targeted as proving grounds for terrorist training camps, I suppose that every black person here should be pulled over and searched as well, oh wait, doesn't that already happen in too many cities (Dade County, I'm talking to you).  I wonder how the courts would stand up under that mountain of law suits.

And since we are poking the finger at communities...I expect hearings to take place anytime now to address why the Catholic community has let pedophile priests operate with almost near autonomy for the last 50 years...what could be more of a danger to the children of America.  Come on Catholics, what are you doing turning a blind eye for so long?  I am sure that would make things interesting on Capital Hill...I wonder what Congressman would sponsor these hearings?

I'm sure if nothing else it would make for some interesting television...

You see the slippery slope...America; can we please, for the love of God and each other, stop trying to roller skate uphill?