PCism strikes again…

When you’re NOT allowed to ‘profile’ on problem groups, this is what you get…

A Navy civilian engineer has been indicted on charges he tried to steal schematics of an aircraft carrier under construction and have them sent to Egypt.

Federal prosecutors said Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 35, of Yorktown, Va., was arrested Friday on two counts of attempted exportation of defense articles and technical data.

Full article HERE.

They are NOT our friends, they didn’t contribute to building this country, and can and will do everything in their power to KILL US!

What does the administration not understand about that???

Sigh…

Comments

PCism strikes again… — 24 Comments

  1. Yeah, I read this.
    I wondered about the wisdom of letting a guy named Mostafa Ahmed Awwad (duh!) work on our first-line defense.
    I guess that’s what you get when you listen to Kerry’s droning about tolerance and diversity…

  2. +1 on Charlie’s comment. Only gummint officials are dumb enough to believe that people who vow “Death to America!” suddenly become flower children when they get off a plane.

  3. Oh but we might offend someone in or from another country and we want the warm tingly feeling of everyone liking us….Koom Baya Koom Baya

  4. “If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison on each count.”

    Wasn’t the penalty for such things formally a bit more severe?

    • Exactly! My question has always been “What is this administration doing different from a ComIntern Sleeper Cell?”
      The answer is, alas, nothing.

      And that is why our oath has included the phrase “… all enemies, both foreign and domestic.”

  5. And then do we ban everybody named “Lee” or “Chin” from doing such work? How about anyone named “Petrov” or “Ivanov”?

  6. Charlie/Rev- I’m betting he got LESS screening than you or I would…

    Randy- Yeah… sigh

    GR6- That’s what I ‘thought’ too!

    Ed/Stretch- Good point.

    CM- How about they actually DO a real background check… If you’re a WASP, they go through your history with a fine toothed comb… Anybody else, not so much (don’t want to UPSET insert ethnicity here)…

    Tim- Aren’t you glad you retired???

    • I have no problem with doing a background check to the level that either the clearance or the facts uncovered demand.

      But only if the clearance level or the facts require it.

      Anything else is bigotry, no matter how much cake icing is spread upon it.

  7. This is what happens when progs preach the gospel against discrimination. They become blind as gophers with cataracts.

  8. I have developed a completely different viewpoint of so called Political Correctness.
    All I did was retain the same initials, but substitute the wording thusly.
    Personal Cowardice.
    So, whenever P.C. is used for whatever reason, the applied term of personal cowardice gives me an entirely different perspective of the person, or whoever, that is hiding behind it.
    Try it, you’ll like it.

  9. Euripides- Excellent point…

    WSF- Yeah, sigh…

    Stuart- Hmm… That is a GOOD point!

    Rick- Yep!

  10. “They are NOT our friends, they didn’t contribute to building this country, and can and will do everything in their power to KILL US!

    What does the administration not understand about that?”

    I’m not giving this or any administration that’s been alive in my lifetime credit for the level of self-awareness it would take to avoid what I’m about to posit, but there’s a pretty solid historical line of things going extremely pear-shaped in a big damn hurry any time a government formally declares a They.

  11. I know. You are exactly right. I get headaches just thinking about it. And why don’t people think the same way we do? It mystifies me.

  12. These days the Agency’s in charge of running background checks are passing out TOP SECRET security clearances like they are M& M’s !!

  13. To each their own. Personally I find the internment camps we stuffed the yellow menace into during WWII a huge black mark on our country’s history, not to mention wildly inconsistent with the notions of liberty we’re supposed to hold most dear. When other governments have tried out a formal They, the body counts trend up into the 6 or 7 figure range, and that’s before the war part starts. Not my idea of a good time.

  14. Actually, we’ve had a formal “They” in the past without putting anyone in camps or stacking their bodies like cordwood.

    “Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?” An affirmative answer to that question brought a lot more attention to the applicant. Why? Because we knew that someone who had those beliefs was more likely to be a problem than not.

    I worked with a lot of immigrants from the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact. They were gone over with a microscope, and had to report any contact with friends or family from the old country. Anything they did that was shady usually earned them a conversation with a counter-intel specialist. They were scrutinized in this way because their background made them more of a risk than an Okie from Muskogee.

    If you come from a group that has a lot in common with the enemies of the country, I’d call it par for the course if you had to have your motives examined and your background checked and re-checked.

  15. Fargo- Headache here too…

    Woody- It seems like it!

    Stingray- You’re right there too. But it seems we’ve gone 180 out, and are ‘afraid’ to ask any questions… Don’t want to offend and all that…

    DB- Excellent point! And strangely enough, THAT requirement still exists…

  16. Daddybear: Fair enough, there’s an exception, but it doesn’t take a Great Leap (ba-dum-tish) to see how a political They could go severely wrong. In the realm of statistics-there-will-never-be-an-answer-for, I’d be curious to see a look at lives/careers ruined via false accusations, suicides committed, etc over false commie accusations vs. national security actually accomplished via these questions and follow-up checks. For any good done, there’s still a valid reason they were called Witch Hunts, and similarly when homosexuals were the They, it was a self fulfilling security-risk prophecy as a “discovery,” right or wrong, was a career ender. I do know there is absolutely no way to measure these with any reasonable certainty, and I am in favor of “Hey, wait a sec here” analysis (El Al passenger screening for a rough analog; being offended is not persecution Up To A Point(TM)), but given the pattern overall, well, it makes me prickle. Then again, I may have just They’d governments, so add a dose of salt to this whole thing.