al-qaeda planning attack using black low-top cons and very hip spectacles

Without a doubt, I am convinced that I was stereotyped yesterday. I was pulled out of a line while at an airport at the security gate because of my ethnicity. I was profiled. I am not being overly paranoid. It happened. They offered no “credible information” as to why I was being searched. I was and am enraged. And don’t make any statements about foregoing “our civil liberties for the sake of protection.” Fuck that. And don’t tell me about grandma who was also pulled out of line because I don’t give a shit. And I don’t want to hear you own personal story of being searched at an airport. If you carry a nail file through security, you will be searched. If you carry an excessive amount of anything suspicious, you will be searched. When grandma tries to bring her entire colletion of cross-stitching equipment onboard, she will get the body cavity search.

You see, I don’t carry those things because I travel every fucking week. I don’t set off the metal detector —- ever. I didn’t set off the metal detector yesterday at Bradley International either. But regardless, there must have been *some* fucking reason to stop and search me. Hang on a second, I know what it is. Maybe they are looking for people who look like me? Maybe they are looking really, really hard for those who might be associated with al-Qaeda and are of “middle-eastern descent.” Hmmm. Richard Reid, Jose Padilla, and John Walker Lindh looking individuals should be carefully scrutinized and approached with caution. When it comes, it will come from the unexpected.

Stop wasting your time and energy being suspicious of and degrading innocent peoples lives. Sikhs are not terrorists though they sometimes are known to wear turbans. Indians are and have been pacifists for more years than this fucked up country has been around.

Terrorist training camps in this country abound. Ft. Bragg, Ft. Benning, Camp LeJeune —- shall we continue?

I think I am going to make t-shirts that say something to the effect of “I am not a terrorist.”