Donald Trump calls profiling Muslims ‘common sense’

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

After doubling down on his proposal to ban immigrants from countries with a history of terrorism, Donald Trump is now doubling down on another controversial idea in the wake of the Orlando massacre: profiling Muslims already in the United States.

In an interview with CBS's John Dickerson that aired Sunday on "Face the Nation," Trump called profiling Muslims "common sense."

"Well, I think profiling is something that we're going to have to start thinking about as a country," he said when Dickerson asked Trump whether he still supports the idea, which he has floated before. "And other countries do it; you look at Israel and you look at others and they do it and they do it successfully. You know, I hate the concept of profiling. But we have to start using common sense, and we have to use, you know, we have to use our heads...we really have to look at profiling. We have to look at it seriously. "

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/19/donald-trump-calls-profiling-muslims-common-sense/

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But how do we know which people are Muslim so we can profile them? Could we get them to wear something easily identifiable on their clothes?

[cstanleytech]

1. Plus people might forget to wear it so maybe they should add a numbered tatoo on their arms?

You know, just to be safe.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

6. You know, it just makes sense to so.

We've got to start using our heads.

[IrishEyes]

11. Just to be safe.

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Maybe we should round them up and group them together in camps so we can have an easier time watching them.

Of course, I'm just kidding. Trump is a horrible person.

[oberliner]

20. Executive Order 9066: The President Authorizes Japanese Relocation

Executive Order No. 9066

The President

Executive Order

Authorizing the Secretary of War to Prescribe Military Areas

Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities as defined in Section 4, Act of April 20, 1918, 40 Stat. 533, as amended by the Act of November 30, 1940, 54 Stat. 1220, and the Act of August 21, 1941, 55 Stat. 655 (U.S.C., Title 50, Sec. 104);

Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders whom he may from time to time designate, whenever he or any designated Commander deems such action necessary or desirable, to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded, and with respect to which, the right of any person to enter, remain in, or leave shall be subject to whatever restrictions the Secretary of War or the appropriate Military Commander may impose in his discretion. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to provide for residents of any such area who are excluded therefrom, such transportation, food, shelter, and other accommodations as may be necessary, in the judgment of the Secretary of War or the said Military Commander, and until other arrangements are made, to accomplish the purpose of this order. The designation of military areas in any region or locality shall supersede designations of prohibited and restricted areas by the Attorney General under the Proclamations of December 7 and 8, 1941, and shall supersede the responsibility and authority of the Attorney General under the said Proclamations in respect of such prohibited and restricted areas.

I hereby further authorize and direct the Secretary of War and the said Military Commanders to take such other steps as he or the appropriate Military Commander may deem advisable to enforce compliance with the restrictions applicable to each Military area hereinabove authorized to be designated, including the use of Federal troops and other Federal Agencies, with authority to accept assistance of state and local agencies.

I hereby further authorize and direct all Executive Departments, independent establishments and other Federal Agencies, to assist the Secretary of War or the said Military Commanders in carrying out this Executive Order, including the furnishing of medical aid, hospitalization, food, clothing, transportation, use of land, shelter, and other supplies, equipment, utilities, facilities, and services.

This order shall not be construed as modifying or limiting in any way the authority heretofore granted under Executive Order No. 8972, dated December 12, 1941, nor shall it be construed as limiting or modifying the duty and responsibility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with respect to the investigation of alleged acts of sabotage or the duty and responsibility of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice under the Proclamations of December 7 and 8, 1941, prescribing regulations for the conduct and control of alien enemies, except as such duty and responsibility is superseded by the designation of military areas hereunder.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The White House,

February 19, 1942.


http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154

[IrishEyes]

22. Yes, I am very much aware of that terrible part of our history.

[oberliner]

19. During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location

During the Holocaust, concentration camp prisoners received tattoos only at one location, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which consisted of Auschwitz I (Main Camp), Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz and the subcamps). Incoming prisoners were assigned a camp serial number which was sewn to their prison uniforms. Only those prisoners selected for work were issued serial numbers; those prisoners sent directly to the gas chambers were not registered and received no tattoos.

Initially, the SS authorities marked prisoners who were in the infirmary or who were to be executed with their camp serial number across the chest with indelible ink. As prisoners were executed or died in other ways, their clothing bearing the camp serial number was removed. Given the mortality rate at the camp and practice of removing clothing, there was no way to identify the bodies after the clothing was removed. Hence, the SS authorities introduced the practice of tattooing in order to identify the bodies of registered prisoners who had died.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007056

[winstars]

2. Its common sense to profile orange fake rich guys, the are a clear and present danger to our country

[Odin2005]

3. Do these idiots think "Islam" is a race? Jesus Christ.

There are Muslims of any race, and not all Middle-Easterners are Muslims.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

7. Well, for right-wingers who happen to not know much ...

... they sure have a lot of "answers," don't they? You know, since they use a lot of non-scientific conclusions for today's most pressing problems, what could possibly go wrong, right?

[Odin2005]

8. I know an Assyrian Christian guy from Iraq...

...and he has gotten called slurs like "raghead" and "sand n*****".

[Fantastic Anarchist]

9. Jeez ...

Well that speaks more about the person promoting those insults rather than the insultee.

[47of74]

13. Yeah.

I went to Turkey in 2012 and I found that there are both men and women there who if you beamed them to the smallest town here in this country you would not be able to tell just by looking at them that they weren't from the US, let alone that they don't practice the same religion you do.

[ReRe]

4. We might want to...

... profile for people like Donald Trump.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

5. Well, the concept has never really been tried before ...

... but we can like make them where a crescent or something. Maybe tattoo their arms?

What could go wrong?

[oberliner]

21. More similar to what FDR did with Japanese-Americans

No need to look outside our own sordid history for examples of this sort of thing.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Wee Little Donnie

lives in a simpleton's world

How shall they be identified? Appearance, genealogy (100%, 75%, 50%, 25% 12.5%, 6.25% etc),
sect, religion, country of origin, congregation ... it is incredibly complex.

How will he do the surveillance? Gumshoe? Cell phone? Internet? USPS? Neighborhood Watch?

He's spent too much time in limousines

[uppityperson]

12. How about we profile bigots of all sorts instead?

[47of74]

14. Bullshit he hates the idea of profiling.

I call a big heaping mound of bullshit on that.

[BlueStater]

15. Kicking you in your ballsack is common sense too, shitwad. n/t

[Shrike47]

16. Sensible profiling would start off with no gun sales to or possession by males. They do the killing

[Feeling the Bern]

17. Donnie Dipshit farts out more turds of wisdom. His followers orgasm as the sound

He knows his audience.

[Little Tich]

18. America needs profiling of Muslims as much as it needs Donald Trump for President. n/t

[sofa king]

23. How about let's profile Presidential candidates, eh?

No narcissists, histrionics, or sociopaths running for President or Vice President.

That would have ruled out Trump, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney.

Toss in dementia and we could cross off Reagan and maybe Trump twice over.

[SummerSnow]

24. He's an ass. Why can't we profile stupid assholes?

[Sunlei]

25. Maybe Republicans can make their donald use some of his russian hacker services on American citizens

Foreign 'friends' can't pay in money through banks but there's always 'payment' in "services" eh Republican 'frontrunner'?

[TomCADem]

26. Maybe He Will Propose That They Be Tatooed Like During WWII Germany

Trump's "common sense" is pretty frightening.

[Aristus]

27. Really? Trump has never been within private-jet-flying distance of 'common sense'.