Editor,
Why is it that the same champions of liberalism that espouse their disdain and abhorrence for racial profiling in any situation, including trying to prevent terrorism, crow about the fact that the Bush administration won't give up any information on their meetings with Enron officials?
Critics of the Vice President say that if he "doesn't have anything to hide," he should allow the Senate to review private documents and meetings just because some Enron representatives were there. You know, guilt by association.
If there was a room full of people and at least one employee of Enron was in that room, then everyone there must have had a hand in the energy giant's collapse. Never mind that Enron just happens to be one of the largest companies in the world that deals with energy trading.
In addition, let's just ignore the fact that despite several direct attempts by Enron to enlist the aid of the administration in "bailing out" the failing company, the Bush administration, which admits that it received huge sums of campaign contributions from Enron, did not let that money buy a helpful decision from the administration.
In the meantime, the same liberal voices defend the liberties of every ethnic group against the scourge of racial profiling. I don't know if you have read the Constitution lately, but can someone tell me where that is mentioned? Has the Supreme Court made a ruling on Racial Profiling being an unreasonable search or seizure?
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Liberals include racial profiling protection under an umbrella of invented liberty protecting the very group from which all 18 of the Sept. 11 terrorists were comprised: Middle Eastern males. Their defense of this inane policy: just because someone is part of a group there can be no correlation between association and activity.
Why doesn't this work for the vice president? Oh, that's right, if he doesn't have anything to hide, then why does he defend his right of privacy? What? You don't buy it from the vice president, but let's use the same argument to defend our stance on racial profiling. Now you are making real sense!
Chris Welch
Executive MBA student
