Steve Sailer writes: With Donald Trump saying that being extremely tough on immigration might have prevented 9/11, I’m reminded of a couple of old articles I wrote. The first I wrote on the evening of September 11, 2001, in which I pointed out that in second Presidential debate of 2000, Bush had announced:
Bush said during the nationally televised debate, “Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what’s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that.” Then-Governor Bush went on, “My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republic Senator from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that, you know, Arab-Americans are treated with respect. So racial profiling isn’t just an issue at the local police forces. It’s an issue throughout our society. And as we become a diverse society, we’re going to have to deal with it more and more.”
Once in office, Bush and his Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta had followed up with federal programs to make wipe out profiling of Arabs at airports.
Years later we learned that the counter clerk who checked in the leader of the terrorists, Mohammed Atta, on that fateful morning, thought to himself, as he told Oprah Winfrey:
“I got an instant chill when I looked at [Atta]. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, ‘My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.’”
Tuohey also told David Hench of the Portland Press Herald:
Then his eyes locked on Atta.
“It just sent chills through you. You see his picture in the paper (now). You see more life in that picture than there is in flesh and blood,” Tuohey said.
Then Tuohey went through an internal debate that still haunts him.”I said to myself, ‘If this guy doesn’t look like an Arab terrorist, then nothing does.’ Then I gave myself a mental slap, because in this day and age, it’s not nice to say things like this,” he said.
It’s not just a matter of letting hostile foreigners into the country, it’s also all the restrictions we impose on our own noticing, our see something, say something urge.
Comments to Steve Sailer:
* People who fit the profile SHOULD be looked at suspiciously and given extra-special looking over. I couldn’t care less what those Arabs or Muslims or whatever they say they are at CAIR think or do. Every one of them and their families are suspects. The innocent will have to put up with it until we kill all the guilty. Or the guilty kill us which is their not-at-all secret plan. Do what the Israelis do at their airports and let them bitch all they want.
Trump is right: W was at least somewhat liable for 9-11.
I’ve noticed Trump is usually right. Haven’t you noticed that too?
* When the Muslim population gets to a certain level, acts of terrorism become unavoidable. Once it hits 25 or 30 per cent of the total, liberal democracy will be impossible. Between 10 and 60 per cent of Muslims in the UK support some kind of Muslim system for themselves, ranging from having their own sharia law to all-out war against the host population – and that’s only those who are willing to admit it to pollsters.
* In Israel, it’s not the luggage that’s emphasized (though they do check that, too), but the person’s intentions -how he’s feeling, is he answering questions honestly, is he able to maintain eye contact, etc. After all, a person who’s gone through American security may just buy vodka bottles later to serve as clubs. Use of such tactics may well have prevented 9/11, judging from the clerk’s description.
* Once again, the Israelis use effective security techniques that the West is shamed into abandoning.
* That Trump said it happened during the reign of Bush was music to my ears alone. And ya know, that he let Jeb have his moment at the debate when Jeb said, Well I know this, my brother kept us safe–that Trump let that drift I think bespeaks unheard of virtue for these days, because Jeb walked into a knock out next step stretcher—what the hell are you talking about remember when he stood on the rubble? He Was Standing On Rubble. But Trump did not cut Jeb down for his brother’s error of magnitude, and that strikes me quiet impressive. Then calling in to Fox the next morning he gave it to him, and I’ve never seen a pol concede a point just quite like that before. He is simply acting like people are supposed to act and he does not get enough mentioned credit for that. Smart move too, since he gets to say it now, and will get to say it again next debate.
* Trump should also point out that just a few years after 9/11, G.W. Bush’s administration once again permitted Saudis to attend American flight-schools. Trump should bring up all the idiot things that Bush the Younger did, and force Jeb to defend them (and by the same token, he should force the other Republican candidates to repudiate them – the GOP needs to be made to apologize for GW).
