GOP candidate Dan Fanelli is hoping to take on Democrat Representative Alan Grayson for Florida's 8th District. And his apparent plan of attack is to launch television ads calling for racial profiling of people with darker skin color.
"Does this look like a terrorist?" Fanelli asks in the political ad featured below, gesturing towards an older white man. Then, pointing to the darker-skinned young man, he adds: "Or this?"
I don't know who looks like a terrorist, but Fanelli does appear to be pretty smarmy. Funny, isn't Fanelli an Italian name, and not long ago, weren't Italian-Americans getting put in concentration camps in the name of national security?
Not only does the GOP candidate promote the use of racial profiling as public policy, Fanelli actually declared in an interview that people from countries like Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Syria should be happy to submit to extra U.S. scrutiny for their own safety.
Yes, Fanelli, we tried that already. It was called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS), a special registration post-9-11 program that required male visitors from 24 Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with local immigration offices. Over 83,000 people registered and 1,200 were arbitrarily detained without due process. And it did not result in a single terrorism conviction.
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