Cooksey: Expect racial profiling

[rfowler at usdirect.net]

Check out:

http://www.evote.com/wiwo

(yes, that's Cooksey, and yes that's what you think it is on his head....
nice bit of Photoshopping)

It looks like Cooksey's remark hasn't exactly gone unnoticed by the
mainstream press :)

Rick

>
>          WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Cooksey, R-Monroe,
>          told a network of Louisiana radio stations Monday that
>          someone "wearing a diaper on his head" should expect to be
>          interrogated in the investigation of terrorist attacks on the
>          Pentagon and New York City.
>
> and he jingoes on from there.  Cooksey doesn't say whether he was
> including the KKK in the category of people with diapers on their head,
> or what to do about politicians who need to change their own diapers.
>
> He does acknowledge that some turban-wearers are Americans,
> and some aren't Muslims or Arabs, but he still thinks they
> need to be pulled over, because bin Laden and many of his followers
> wear turbans.
>
> Bin Laden has also been rumored to wear pants.
>
> Cooksey won't be running for House again in 2002 - he's planning
> to run for Senate instead.  I hope the Democrat's better,
> though this is the part of the country that put out
> "vote for the crook" bumper stickers when the crook's
> opponent was (ostensibly ex-) Klansman David Duke.
>