I've been sitting here thinking this morning...scary thought, isn't it?!! When police forces observe recurring patterns of behavior and conduct in their sometimes highly dangerous business by "criminal profiling," it is considered wrong behavior and most definitely politically incorrect. It can even be yet another one of those ploys lawyers and the ACLU can use to get actual criminals out of jail on technicalities. (It just now occurs to me that newborns these days ought to be issued a dozen or so...13 would be a lucky number as well as a baker's dozen... "Get Out Of Jail Free" cards with their birth certificates just for the heck of it. We could save a lot of time and extra effort in the legal system and it would give counterfeiters something else on which to ply their trade.)On the other hand, everybody on Facebook, My Space, Tagged, and whatever other "socializing networks" are out there that this techo dino doesn't know about, is already profiling every single time he/she gets on the application...not only about him/herself, but by reading over other individuals' self-proclaimed dossiers. Folks scroll down over a person's profile, picking up all kinds of information from the various applications installed that the user wants us to know about; otherwise, he/she would not have put it up on the Internet. The irony is that I've heard of people who blog or have profiles actually being angry when what they've posted on the Net is known by personal friends. HELLO!! METHINKS THE LADY/GUY DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH!! (Tip of the hat to Willie Shakespeare's Hamlet.)
Now, tell me that every enforcement agency in the world doesn't have SOME way to tap into all this bank of information in order to check out who they think is going to do whatever it is they don't want them doing!! Security...my great Aunt Lizzie's hairbun!! All you people out there...especially those of you who profess belief in an inerrant and infallible document that is LOADED with what is coming to be known as hate speech literature had better wake up to the facts of the matter. If you don't want to pay attention to my way of thinking, pick up one of Frank Perretti's excellent novels and get some fertilizer for the old paranoia plants of your psyche!! Oh, and as your angst and nail biting go up, don't forget about Romans 8:28, "And we know that God causes [my Calvinistic emphasis] all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren..." Part of that image is in Isaiah Chapter 53...the Suffering Servant Image. You might also look up Acts 9:16, the terms of Paul's calling: "...I will show him how much he must suffer for My name's sake."
Gotcher concentration camp picked out, Saints in the USofA?
No comments:
Post a Comment