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May 13, 2007
"Should I call someone or is that being racist?"
The hazards of political correctness:
. . . When the teen and another employee went into a back room and began the conversion of the tape, they saw a group of bearded men wearing "fundamentalist attire" and shooting "big, f-ing guns," the teen later told co-workers. Throughout the 90-minute-long tape, above the booming gunfire at a Pennsylvania target range, the jihadists could be heard screaming "God is great!"The two employees "freaked out," their co-worker recalled.
At first, the teenage clerk didn't know what to do, his pal said. "Dude, I just saw some really weird s-," he frantically told his co-worker. "I don't know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?"
What if his friend had said, "Whoa, dude, that's way racist."
The fellow employee tried to calm his friend and told him that if what he saw terrified him so much, he should tell the police.The teen first consulted with a manager before making the 911 call.What if the manager had told him he was being racist? Or that these bearded men were freedom fighters? Or that Bush knew about 9-11 beforehand? Would this teen have gone ahead and called the FBI anyway?
FBI agents got a copy of the tape from Circuit City, and went to the teen's house and interviewed him at length.As the FBI continued its investigation, the clerk - who has not been identified - quietly went about his life, his co-workers said. Then when news broke on Tuesday that federal authorities had arrested six foreign-born Muslims in the terror plot, the frightened teen decided to lay low - not coming to work or going to school until the situation blew over, his pals said. He was too terrified of reprisals to be interviewed by The Post yesterday. [Emphasis added-JSW]
Is he being racist, imperialistic, oppressive, paranoid . . . . or just realistic?
UPDATE: Lots of discussion on this at Hot Air.
Judith | 05/13/07 at 05:42 PM | Categories: - Power to the People
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One has to be realistic and cautious in this world,but one has to stand up to jihadi terrorism too.
