Shot in the Dark

The Right Profile

SCENE:  Mitch BERG is watching fireworks from a bluff over the Mississippi River.  Avery LIBRELLE, carrying an overstuffed bag of bug spray, sun parasols and other outdoor gear, lurches up behind him.  

LIBRELLE:  Hey, Merg!  We need to control guns in our society!  The New York Times says so!

BERG:  Right. we talked about that the other day.  Why do you think that?  In your own words, please.

LIBRELLE:   Because we don’t want every fat, overweight, bald, red-faced, out-of-shape racist sexist anti-government Christian Tenther  Extremist in the square states having guns!

BERG:  Huh.  What was that demographic again?

LIBRELLE:  Fat, overweight, bald, red-faced, out-of-shape racist sexist anti-government Christian Tenther  Extremists!  The ones who are likely to become terrorists!

BERG:  Huh.  Speaking of which – the cops are scrutinizing radical mosques to find links to terror…

LIBRELLE:  Stop!

BERG:  …what?

LIBRELLE:  Profiling is wrong!

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8 responses to “The Right Profile”

  1. Mr. D Avatar
    Mr. D

    That’s Avery Librelle, honey!

  2. Prussian Blue Avatar
    Prussian Blue

    FBI: Middle Eastern Men Intimidating U.S. Military Families In Colorado & Wyoming

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    FBI: Middle Eastern Men Intimidating U.S. Military Families In Colorado & Wyoming
    August 4, 2015 7:38 PM
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    Related Tags: Cheyenne, Colorado Department of Homeland Security, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, Greeley, Intimidation, Middle Eastern, Wyoming

    DENVER (CBS4) – An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.

    The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley and Cheyenne, Wyoming as the specific areas.

    In one case last May the wife of a military member was approached in front of her home by two Middle Eastern males. The men stated that she was the wife of a U.S. interrogator. When she denied their claims the men laughed. The two men left the area in a dark-colored, four-door sedan with two other Middle Eastern males in the vehicle.

    “The woman had observed the vehicle in the neighborhood on previous occasions,” the alert states.

    Similar incidents in Wyoming have been reported to the FBI throughout June 2015.

    http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/08/04/fbi-middle-eastern-men-intimidating-u-s-military-families-in-colorado-wyoming/

    Middle Eastern? Obama’s FBI is probably questioning Jews and Maronite Christians.

  3. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    Nothing to see here. Move along, sheeple. Just another lone wolf spotting.

  4. justplainangry Avatar
    justplainangry

    In related lone wolf news, a 29 ILLEGAL alien filth beats with a hammer and then rapes a 64 year old woman who dies 8 days later. Just another lone wolf, an exception. Keep moving along, sheeple.

  5. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    Several weeks back the Strib ran a feature on a guy who was a former drone pilot who now lives in Texas. They ran a picture of him, some of his family, and gave the name of his hometown. When I commented on the article that it wasn’t the smartest thing to do while ISIS is encouraging its sympathizers to wage jihad in the U.S., other commenters thought I was silly and paranoid. In this instance, I’d actually be relieved if I am just being silly and paranoid, but somehow I don’t think that’s the case.

  6. AlexG'sWankingMitten Avatar
    AlexG’sWankingMitten

    Obama is seeing to it these domestic jihadists do not have to worry about running into any armed resistance. He’s doing what he can to assure himself some virgins that have no Klingon blood in ’em.

  7. The Head of Prince Charming Avatar
    The Head of Prince Charming

    Oh Mergie, you’re so silly.

    First, while Librelle (she sounds pretty sexy) may be pigeon-holing a bit, the reality is she’s talking about a political stance, not a race, not a religion and certainly not just old fat white guys, and only you really added the Tenther or whatever else you threw in to try to exaggerate the point so that you could have your straw-man to attack.

    I think she really is saying that angry, mostly white but not exclusively white, folks who hate the government are actually pretty dangerous and not because they’re “good with gunz” but because they are angry and maybe unhinged and they unfortunately seem to pretty consistently affiliate with silly right-wing ideas, like birtherism, science denial, and the idea that they have the right to act out violently. Now, profiling, Mergie, would be to only target fat white guys, but that’s not really what Librelle was saying, she was saying a lot of you fat old white guys seem to be part of this crazy movement. So, she’s saying it’s the movement that should be scrutinized since it has resulted in about eight times more deaths in the US from 2002 to 2012 than did violent Muslim extremist based terrorism.

    Even more important, pretending that such conduct by crazy gun-loonz isn’t correlated to the political ideology is to deny reality and is really funny stuff from you rightie gunz-addicts considering you insist on correlating mentally-disturbed Muslims as being a cohesive problem of terrorism based on religion. What’s even funnier, is that you insist that the threat from Islam is so important that it’s really the only type of violence which should be called terrorism. So, you see, the funny part is, you are profiling, that is, singling out for scrutiny and monitoring a group of people based solely an ethnicity, religion, or creed. That’s what profiling is.

    Your fantasy opponent, Librelle, by contrast, was suggesting that a political movement was the real issue and driver, and noting many of that movement were fat, angry, panty-waste white guys like you, but didn’t say that was the whole movement, or that race or religion motivated their opinion. Clearly, many in the US who are Christians don’t hate the government or seek to carry a gun to feel save. She’s saying all of the movement, not just whites, should be people we might want to pay attention to because they have crazy hate-filled existences and more often act on them than do Muslim extremists in the US. By contrast, you crazies say only Muslims really are committing terrorism and should be followed. Or well, so it appears from here. Perhaps you can tell me how you haven’t tried to suggest in the past that white-folk terrorism isn’t terrorism but instead just the disturbed acts of lone wolves Muslims and that it’s only those people, the Muslims who predictably “dangerous” and need to be watched.

    So yeah, stop profiling, because you’re actually doing it while the straw-man you erected fantasy really wasn’t. Further, profiling is by and large seen as a pretty poor predictor, so your rather back-handed defense of it, which is what this all seems to be, ignores the fact that it doesn’t really work. I will say this, though, were anyone to suggest only watching angry, fat, white Christians, I’d say “Stop!” just as quickly as I would and do when you crazy folks say terrorism is only perpetrated in the US by Muslims. It’s just that, outside of some equally crazy (but very small percentage) of the left, what you claim is happening, that we should be watching fat old white guys because they are fat old, or white is really only happening in your fictionalized, fantasized world.

    Ironically Yours,
    Da’ Prince

  8. kel Avatar
    kel

    THoPC,
    oh what a precious thing you are, but dear me learn to spell, its guns not gunz – I know its cute but those sort of errors just make you look childish and ignorant and do detract from your argument whatever it is.

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