Revisiting profiling


After learning more, does my opinion change?
Based on what I knew yesterday morning, I would still do my profiling entry.

We didn't know about the VA Tech gunman's past, or the previous incidents of violence, or even for sure he was on medication.

Still, I think the question needs to be addressed.

For example, I know of a couple of incidents where a professor verbally attacked one of their students who happened to be a serving member of the armed forces. "Baby killer" was the most polite phrase used. I have also heard it said in all seriousness that the desire to serve in the military is a sure sign of insanity.

To hear Anne Coulter or Michael Savage talk, all liberals are deranged and should be restrained for their own safety and the safety of those around them.

Same argument. Same justification. Just different targets.

So just who gets to define "crazy?"

I'll admit this makes me nervous. I'm enough out of the mainstream in my faith, my sexual tastes, my politics, and my own medical conditions that I can see where the writing on the wall might lead.

I've no doubt that it would start to "protect people," especially the children. I've no doubt that within a year or less, it will be perverted to a political agenda to suppress dissent. And I KNOW that will be true no matter which party is in the majority in Congress and in the White House.

It can't be allowed.

The very same powers that would have enabled the State to stop the gunman before the shots would enable politicos and bureaucrats to crush ordinary citizens for almost any reason at all.

The real problem is that "enabling the State."

As Sunni Maravillosa and several others have said (I just happened to read Sunni first), it's that dependence on the State keeping us safe that really threatens us.

Who is going to protect us if the State can't or won't?

Why can't we do it ourselves?

On another note, I think the behavior of NBC executives is reprehensible and possibly criminal. We know that every one of these incidents inspires copycat behavior. NBC has just proven that anyone can be famous if they kill people and send a package to 30 Rockefeller Plaza. As John Douglas pointed out in the excellent Mind Hunter, getting attention is nearly as important as the crime itself. NBC may also have dealt the death blow to the notion of a national news network, but that is another story.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - April 19, 2007 at 04:51 AM  Tag


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