The Department of Justice and the FBI are teaming up to racially profile every citizen in America . The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing

relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups

At the moment the FBI needs probable cause before investigating any American Citizen. Profiling is not considered a factor that can be used (even though it often is). Under the new program that is due to take effect later this summer ethnicity and religion are will become more than enough justification for investigating citizens and permanent residents.

The new policy, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press, would let agents open preliminary terrorism investigations after mining public records and intelligence to build a profile of traits that, taken together, were deemed suspicious.

Among the factors that could make someone subject of an investigation is travel to regions of the world known for terrorist activity, access to weapons or military training, along with the person’s race or ethnicity.

One FBI official had stayed up late the night before watching “Pulp Fiction” before giving this quote to the associated press:

“We don’t know what we don’t know. And the object is to cut down on that”

We will be presumed to be terrorist because of the language we speak and the religions we hold. They will not look in other places for other suspects, their eyes are firmly planted on the Muslim and Arab citizens of this fair nation. Nevermind that both groups do better than the average citizen when it comes to literacy, income and voter turn out. Because of our heritage we are automatically the least patriotic and therefor more inclined to incite terrorism against the state. (Revolution?)

Has America learned nothing from the days of Timothy McVeigh and Theodore Kaczynski? Did they ‘bug’ the phones of every white male who fit their description? What the FBI and DOJ intend to do is not profiling but merely state sponsored racism.  

What is becoming more upsetting to me is the lack of response by the African American community to this news. I do not hear Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton speaking out against racial profiling in this instance? What is so different between the presumed guilt of a young African American man and the presumed guilt of a young Arab American man?

Perhaps I should count my blessings knowing that Bruce Willis won’t be in charge of the internment camps.