Authorities agreed to rewrite training guidelines for a program that would teach firefighters and workers who regularly go into homes to report signs of terrorist activity.
The decision to scrap 5,000 printed brochures came a week after civil rights advocates criticized the plan. The new guidelines will remove references to particular ethnic groups.
The brochure cautioned that "multiple adult males living together, usually of Middle Eastern appearance and between the ages of 18 and 45, with little or no furnishings" could signal international terrorism.
It also called for workers to report signs of drug trafficking and child sex abuse.
ABC article
The decision to scrap 5,000 printed brochures came a week after civil rights advocates criticized the plan. The new guidelines will remove references to particular ethnic groups.
The brochure cautioned that "multiple adult males living together, usually of Middle Eastern appearance and between the ages of 18 and 45, with little or no furnishings" could signal international terrorism.
It also called for workers to report signs of drug trafficking and child sex abuse.
Gee, I don't know why they got their panties in a bunch over that. We all know that people who sexually abuse children are terrorists. Or prison guards at Abu Ghraib. Or GOP movers and shakers. Okay, okay. I can see the problem - we might expose some important people.
But drug traffickers? Oh yeah, there's the CIA.
All right, the first category, though - Middle Eastern men who live in sparsely furnished apartments in groups - those are surely terrorists. Because they couldn't be students or disadvantaged men trying to make a start on a life in this country. And maybe if they're not terrorists, they're queers. So, hey.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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