Zandar's Thought Of The Day

Imagine if a terrorist drove a trailer full of flammable and potentially explosive materials up to a police station here in America and then set the trailer on fire in order to draw out police officers in the building, and then opened fire on the officers and the station.

It would be instant national news. You would have non-stop cable coverage across the country and internationally of this evil incident. Every aspect of this terrorist's life would be examined for clues as to why. We would of course use his identity, race, and religion to condemn others similar to him. Calls would be made to increase security by concentrating on potential terrorists that matched the profile of the "police station shooter".

Our politicians would waste no time in loudly demanding that people of this terrorist's race, ehtnic background, and religious background denounce this evil man for his actions and to prove to the rest of the country that they were not involved. They would say "We need to round up others like the police station shooter for the sake of safety."

Some would go on television and attack broad swaths of Americans who were the same ethnicity, the same race, or the same religion as the terrorist. it would be a media frenzy, especially this close to an election. People would waste no time in using this to prove that Obama and the Democrats were weak on terrorism and that their efforts to keep America safe had failed.

It's easy to imagine all this happening because it has happened before here in America.

But all of this did happen. It happened yesterday in the town of McKinney, Texas. A terrorist drove a trailer full of flammable material up to the police station, set the trailer on fire in order to draw out the McKinney police, and then opened fire on them with his rifle. The McKinney police returned fire and killed the terrorist. All this happened Tuesday morning.

But you didn't hear about it. If the man had been of Pakistani descent, or a Muslim, or Latino, or African-American, you would have heard about it. But you didn't. It wasn't national news.

And the reason you didn't hear about it is that the man that shot up the McKinney Police station was a white man named Patrick Sharp.

So it's just another "unfortunate incident."

Meanwhile, we continue to take civil liberties away from minorities in this country in the name of public safety.

Think about that.