{"id":3191,"date":"2011-07-22T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2011-07-22T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T12:49:08","slug":"playing_politics_with_the_depa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3191","title":{"rendered":"Playing Politics With The Department Of Homeland Security Does Not Make Us Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is based on two articles&#8211;one in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2017481\/DHS-video-characterises-white-middle-class-Americans-likely-terrorists.html\">U. K. Daily Mail<\/a> today and one at a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/dhs-video-characterizes-white-americans-as-most-likely-terrorists\/\">Infowars.com<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail reports:<\/p>\n<p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 1.2em\" size=\"3\"><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 11pt\">&#8220;A video released by the Department of Homeland Security urging people to report anything suspicious has caused outrage by characterising white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 11pt\">&#8220;The promotional video is part of Homeland Security&#8217;s $10million &#8216;See Something, Say Something&#8217; programme as they believe it will help curb random acts of terrorism by individuals.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 11pt\">&#8220;But the controversial video has angered some Americans due to the fact all the actors who play the would-be terrorists in the video are white, and the people who report them are either black, Asian or Arab.&#8221;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><\/font>This is either polical correctness run amok or lack of knowledge of what the actual threat is.&nbsp; It is unfortunate that these are the people entrusted by the public with the duty of protecting the American public from terrorism.&nbsp; We can do better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is based on two articles&#8211;one in the U. K. Daily Mail today and one at a website called Infowars.com yesterday. The Daily Mail reports: &#8220;A video released by the Department of Homeland Security urging people to report anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3191\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}