Illegal to Have a Middle-Eastern Name?

[AnnInLa]

February 17, 2006
Illegal to Have a Middle-Eastern Name?

Daily Pundit: Homeland Insecurity

Debbie Schlussel has the facts about a truck-driving school in Missouri where about 300 people who took the licensing test from May 2004 to December 2005 “had names that appeared to be Middle Eastern in origin.” That’s about 60% of the total number of people tested at the school.

Fortunately, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (a fancy name for a group that hasn't done much) raided the school, and the Missouri Highway Patrol has blocked the school from testing new students or issuing further licenses. Well, it's about time. What took so long?

The so-called "War On Terror" seems to be about War On People With Middle-Eastern Names. All the wingers are getting whipped into a frenzy because dark-skinned people are learning to drive trucks. I guess the fear is that soon they'll be dating the daughters of Republicans...

click thru links at

http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2006/02/illegal_to_have.htm

[DBoon]

1. just change your name to something "american"

with a name like "Cheney Halliburton" you will have no trouble learning how to drive a truck

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

2. It's similiar to driving while black (DWB)

That condition leads to unwarrented traffic stops based on what part of town you're driving through.

It's another way for the RW to play the race card.

[AspenRose]

3. Heaven help you if you're black AND muslim

Paging Muhammad Ali....Ahmad Rashad....Kareem Abdul-Jabbar....

[baldguy]

6. Barak Obama

[Radical Activist]

4. Morons. The next attack will come from someone who looks white.

They'll have names like John and Sarah Smith. That should be obvious enough. Its scary to think that the terrorists are smarter than the average security officer who thinks racial profiling will stop terrorism.

[bleedingheart]

5. I have an interesting story about "funny names"...

in Pittsburgh there are a lot of people with very ethnic last names...and I was talking to someone about one of our local candidates...and this old guy says to me..."is he some sort of Arab?"...which caught me off guard... and I said, "no..his last name is a Slovak name, why do you ask?" and the old guy just kept quiet....so here you have an average citizen about to shut out a candidate for office because he thinks the name sounds kinda funny and could be Arabic...and it left me speechless ...