Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Reading CNN today about the Rep. McKinney and the Capitol Police. Seems there was a problem with her being identified when attempting to enter the House. Now here is a direct cut and paste from the CNN web article;
"Members of Congress are allowed to bypass metal detectors. But the officer did not recognize her, and, by her own admission, she was not wearing a pin that identified her as a congresswoman."
So the congresswoman states this is an issure of racial profiling because she is one of 14 black women amoung the 535 member Congress. She states that she should be recognized and allowed to pass because she looks like herself. What if someone was to disguise themselves to look like her? What if the Capitol Police officer allowed someone to pass that looked like her but not have this pin?
I'm just sayin' - I fail to see how this is racial profiling. This seems like a situation where someone wasn't recognized and it chapped their ego.
I've been target shooting at the same range for about 20 years. The same people run the place as they always have. Pretty much the same people keep going there every week too. I see the owners of the range at the hardware store and sometimes in the grocery store. Every time I go to the range, despite being recognized, I am still required to follow the same procedures as I was the very first time I ever went there.
I like check points and routine, and safety cautions. My wife and I went to Cancun a few years ago - it's the only time in my life I've been out of the USA. We got tagged at the check in and got stopped at every checkpoint in the airport. I mean a security guard would open our luggage, look through everything, and put it all back while another watched. Then the guard that checked everything would hand the bag to another guard next to him with someone watching him and he would go through our luggage again. This would happen three times at each of the five checkpoints we went through. It was time consuming but at least I knew I wasn't going to be any danger in that plane. I can't say that the guy behind me wasn't going to cause a problem but I was confident that I was not going to be a problem. Funny.
Even Hollywood makes movies showing characters repeatedly showing their identification within the confines of one building. If Hollywood is smart enought to know that security means security then the Reps. in Congress out to get a clue that this is the way things happen.
What shocks me the most about this story is the fact that there is actually a place that anyone can get into the House without being ran through a metal detector as well as had their bags checked.....I don't care who you are, someone came over here - lived here as a citizen amoung us and then hijacked planes and attacked us with our own equipment on our own soil. Doesn't anyone remember that???? Damn skippy someone steps foot on my property and goes against my rules he's gonna get a load a buckshot in his butt and he aint a-steppin' back here again!!!
"Members of Congress are allowed to bypass metal detectors. But the officer did not recognize her, and, by her own admission, she was not wearing a pin that identified her as a congresswoman."
So the congresswoman states this is an issure of racial profiling because she is one of 14 black women amoung the 535 member Congress. She states that she should be recognized and allowed to pass because she looks like herself. What if someone was to disguise themselves to look like her? What if the Capitol Police officer allowed someone to pass that looked like her but not have this pin?
I'm just sayin' - I fail to see how this is racial profiling. This seems like a situation where someone wasn't recognized and it chapped their ego.
I've been target shooting at the same range for about 20 years. The same people run the place as they always have. Pretty much the same people keep going there every week too. I see the owners of the range at the hardware store and sometimes in the grocery store. Every time I go to the range, despite being recognized, I am still required to follow the same procedures as I was the very first time I ever went there.
I like check points and routine, and safety cautions. My wife and I went to Cancun a few years ago - it's the only time in my life I've been out of the USA. We got tagged at the check in and got stopped at every checkpoint in the airport. I mean a security guard would open our luggage, look through everything, and put it all back while another watched. Then the guard that checked everything would hand the bag to another guard next to him with someone watching him and he would go through our luggage again. This would happen three times at each of the five checkpoints we went through. It was time consuming but at least I knew I wasn't going to be any danger in that plane. I can't say that the guy behind me wasn't going to cause a problem but I was confident that I was not going to be a problem. Funny.
Even Hollywood makes movies showing characters repeatedly showing their identification within the confines of one building. If Hollywood is smart enought to know that security means security then the Reps. in Congress out to get a clue that this is the way things happen.
What shocks me the most about this story is the fact that there is actually a place that anyone can get into the House without being ran through a metal detector as well as had their bags checked.....I don't care who you are, someone came over here - lived here as a citizen amoung us and then hijacked planes and attacked us with our own equipment on our own soil. Doesn't anyone remember that???? Damn skippy someone steps foot on my property and goes against my rules he's gonna get a load a buckshot in his butt and he aint a-steppin' back here again!!!
