Political Correctness

     Political Correctness or PC is a relatively new term that began to pop-up in our vocabulary fairly recently.  It may have existed in the English language lexicon before, but did not become part of our everyday usage until a only a couple of decades ago.  If you would have mentioned political correctness during Vietnam era, you would have received a blank or a puzzled look from your listener.  It was only in the last 20 years that it began to receive widespread usage.
     Europeans have been into PC much earlier and have always accused us of not having the proper sensitivity, the proper awareness of this "new age."  As always, Americans were accused of being crude, ill mannered, or simply as they say in Spanish, malcriado (spoiled).  In short, we lacked PC.  UK was a great one for PC.  You could see it in their TV shows and in the words used by their politicians.  We, in the meantime, sort of stumbled along.  But once we got hold of it, we became fervent converts.  PC became the magic word.
     Unfortunately, like everything else, things can be taken too far, and in this case, I believe we took this business of PC too far.  It has been controlling our lives politically, economically, and every other possible way!  You may disagree with me, but the recent murder of a young woman in San Francisco by an illegal alien with a documented criminal history is a perfect example of PC gone awry!  Of all places in America, San Francisco is possibly the most PC city (Seattle is close second) in the country.  It has been that way for a long, long time.  It was the first city to have an openly gay city official, Harvey Milk who was a city supervisor back in the 1970s.  Dianne Feinstein was a San Francisco Supervisor with Harvey Milk. Feinstein is one of the biggest anti-gun politicians in Washington, yet, did you know that she carried a .38 snub nose revolver in her purse during her time in San Francisco?  For all I know, she may still be carrying one in Washington!  Interesting that it was OK for her to carry a gun but almost impossible for an average citizen to obtain a permit to carry a gun in San Francisco!
     San Francisco was always PC!  It is now a "sanctuary" city which essentially advertises that illegal aliens may come to the city and they will not be bothered by the law enforcement.  I know that the Dirty Harry movies of the 1970s painted a picture of San Francisco police being a very hard and tough crew.  The fact is that even back then the SFPD was constantly at odds with the city government which continually tied their hands in crime fighting because the criminals' rights had to be protected!
     The latest tragedy involving the murder of four Marines in Tennessee is a direct result of our society's preoccupation with PC.  The FBI knew that something was not right with this guy, otherwise they would not have put him on the watch list.  But, I guess he did not do anything to allow them to be more aggressive in their investigation or checking of his background and life style.  They, I am sure, did not want to be accused of "racial profiling."  Here, we have another ridiculous term born recently with the rise in illegal alien problem.  Racial profiling, a ridiculous term, when you consider that vast majority of illegal aliens in this country are from south of the border.  They are Hispanic, so if a Hispanic person looks suspicious in the eyes of the law, he or she cannot be stopped and questioned or searched.  That would be racial profiling!  I suppose the best way to do that is to stop and search a Caucasian, Asian, African, Middle Easterner, and a Hispanic, if you are trying to catch an illegal alien.  Then after questioning and searching everyone, arrest the Hispanic if he or she turns out to be an illegal.
     If the majority of illegal aliens are Hispanic, how are you going to apprehend them if you do not single out Hispanics for the search?  In the same token, if the majority of terrorists, domestic and otherwise are Muslims, how are you going to look for them and stop them if you don't "profile" Muslims?  Again, I suppose that to be PC, we should profile Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and a couple of atheists thrown in with Muslims, so that we can identify Muslim terrorists!
     Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona is a controversial figure.  He has bucked the Federal Government, especially Eric Holder and the Justice Department, for their lack of action and support in stopping the flow of illegal immigration.  Holder took it upon himself to pay back Arpaio and the State of Arizona, especially after the "Fast and Furious" Federal gun running fiasco in which Arpaio criticized Holder.  Holder, as payback, accused Arpaio and his department of "racial profiling" Hispanics during Arpaio's vigorous anti illegal alien campaign.
     Personally, I don't care much for Joe Arpaio.  I think he is a blow-hard and a self promoter with a mega-sized ego.  But I will have to agree with him when he said that the Federal Government was not doing its job of protecting our border and apprehending the illegals.  He could not protect the border because he was only in charge of Maricopa County which is not on the border.  But he could do something about apprehending illegals so he launched a vigorous campaign, stopping and searching suspected illegals.  How was he to accomplish that if he did not stop and search Hispanics?  The so-called "racial profiling" became automatic in this case!  Of course the Federal Investigation ensued and Arpaio and his department was found guilty of  "racial profiling."
     We seem to be living in a unrealistic world, in "never-never land," when we insist that we cannot identify illegals by their race, when the majority of illegals are racially identifiable as Hispanics, and we cannot identify by race or religion, suspected terrorists, when in fact vast majority, if not all of recent terror acts in this country were committed by Muslims and or Muslims of Middle Eastern background.  Until such time as when Africans, Asians, and European illegal aliens begin to flood our shores, Hispanics are the majority of illegal entrants into this country.  Are we to ignore that and not concentrate on Hispanics but look for all ethnic groups for illegals?  As for terrorists, perhaps we should concentrate on rooting out Japanese Red Army cells or the Bader Meinhoff and Red Brigade of old, and let's not forget the domestic terrorists in the form of the old Symbionese Liberation Army with good old Patty Hearst, they may be still around, or their grandchildren!
     I am not suggesting that we take drastic action like what happened during World War Two when the Japanese-Americans were interned.  That was racial profiling to the extreme and a horrible black mark in our history!  But I think in these unstable times, our law enforcement should be given the right to do a certain amount of "racial profiling" to try to stop the flow of illegals and to try to stop terrorist attacks.  How else is the law enforcement going to be able to stop the acts before they take place or apprehend illegals?  If there is a system of identifying illegal Hispanics in this country without "profiling" or identifying potential terrorists without "profiling" them as Muslims or of Middle Eastern origin, then I haven't heard of it.
Let me know if there is a way.