Re: The Power of the SCOTUS IV: Gays, Guns, and Immigrants, OH MY!
You cant be that dense as to see why your metaphors strain credibility to the point of ridiculousness. First of all a private business is NOT the same as the government or a police force. Not even close.
Your family metaphor is even worse. I am not using home security to spy on my hypothetical family, I am using it to protect them from outside forces. The cops werent protecting the Muslim community, they were just watching them on the off chance they may have done something "terroristic".
Targeting a group because some of them might be criminals is wrong. any judge who suggests it is ok is a moron. Discrimination is wrong.
The problem is, what the government did in that case isn't discrimination.
I agree with the decision.
The police were sued because they sent undercover cops into muslim places of worship, supposedly for the idea of looking for information on terrorists. We can argue about whether that was a worthy expenditure of public dollars, but I think there are dumber places they could have sent the undercover cops looking for terrorists.
These "victims" then sue, claiming they were discriminated against, and that their religious freedoms were unconstitutionally restricted. B.S.
Discrimination is when you are denied employment, or housing, or public services because of your religion. That occurred to none of these people. Furthermore, no one was prevented from exercising their religious rights. You can sit and worship in a mosque all day long, whether there is an undercover cop next to you or not.
Oh, and by the way, anyone who thinks that the feds didn't send italian-americans into the italian-american community, undercover, to try to bring down mobsters, is either 13 years old and too young to remember, or suffering from a serious case of amnesia.
