Rumble Strips|You have been warned!

The iWatch program will have a handy-dandy toll free number you can call and report your neighbors. In case you are a retard, here is the list of suspicious stuff of which you should be wary:

• If you smell chemicals or other fumes.
• If you see someone wearing clothes that are too big and too heavy for the season.
• If you see strangers asking about building security.
• If you see someone purchasing supplies or equipment that could be used to make bombs.

Especially watch: government buildings, mass gatherings, schools and public transportation. It’s all really just common sense, isn’t it?

“It’s really just common sense types of things,” Bratton said.

The only thing that’s not common sense is setting up a government program for stuff that is simple common sense. Someone with some simple common sense might think there is an alternative motive to the iWatch program. Americans are especially sensitive to programs that are designed for people to rat out their neighbors. A bit too Marxist for us.

Common sense also tells most of us that the main threat we face and the one for which everyone is alert is Islamic terrorists. But the most important thing that you must NOT notice is whether your suspicious character looks like a damn Islamic terrorist. There are safeguards built into the program to ensure that this doesn’t happen.

If someone reports something based on race or ethnicity, the police will not accept the report, and someone will explain to the caller why that is not an indicator of suspicious behavior, McNamara said.

I love the part about explaining it to them. I wonder what happens if the suspicious, terrorist-looking character goes on to blow up a building and kills hundreds or thousands of innocent Americans? Remember how bad everyone was trying to hang the blame for the 9/11 attacks on someone, especially someone in the Bush administration? I do. You fuckers are going to get hung out to dry if a suspicious character report isn’t taken due to retards without any common sense working on a common sense hotline.

The few domestic terrorists acting in the Muslim cause are a statistical anomaly. By any measurement the people we are looking for will be young Muslim men with beards and will have a look of hate and disdain in their eyes. They may stink but may or may not smell like chemicals or be seen purchasing bomb-building material.

Nonetheless… do not report these guys unless you actually see them building or planting a bomb.

Most wanted terrorists

The ACLU take the right position for the wrong reason. Of course they are worried about the Muslims:

But American Civil Liberties Union policy counsel Mike German, a former FBI agent who worked on terrorism cases, said the indicators are all relatively common behaviors. And he suspects people will fall back on personal biases and preconceived stereotypes of what a terrorist looks like when making the decision to report someone to the police.

“That just plays into the negative elements of society and doesn’t really help the situation,” German said.

Aren’t you glad Mike German is no longer at the FBI working on terrorist cases?

Seems to me like personal biases and stereotypes are a big part of what makes up what we call “common sense.” Admittedly, some people’s biases and stereotypes are based upon cultural ignorance but I like to think that most are based upon life experiences. But common sense doesn’t apply when the government sets up a program designed for something that is described by the program’s designers as just common sense. Rather than promote common sense it seems as if iWatch were designed to circumvent common sense.