Thank you for sharing that article. I took that exact same position at work about a month or so back.

While all of my co-workers claim to be conservative and pro-security, etc. every one of them either made comments or at least gave me looks to the point of being a racist, paranoid, an isolationist, etc. All of us have served and we currently work in a defense dept. facility and the .mil is out customer.

Until someone is in THEIR face making THEM a victim they won'y see the need to scrutinize specific demographics that have proven to count amongst their numbers the highest degree of terrorists or criminals.

Right after 9/11 our government was TELLING us to report anything that seemed suspicious; to remain ever vigilant. Today, if we were to do just that, our government and populace alike would brand US as potential risks.

I'll continue to say that somewhere in t he last 10 years our nation has completely turned itself around backwards. What was once RIGHT is now WRONG and what was WRONG is now RIGHT. What was illegal is now LEGAL but what was LEGAL is now ILLEGAL. I don't know what happened, but I'm not comfortable with the world standing on it's head.