By Matt Hurley for the TIB Network:
With the nation on high alert for al-Qaida terrorists, the Department of Homeland Security is putting its border officers through "etiquette" classes to soften their image and make them less threatening to arriving foreign immigrants, WorldNetDaily has learned.
Some officers complain that the timing of the move to kinder, gentler immigration inspections is not only odd, but a switch from recent orders.
A month ago, DHS directed officers to get tough on suspicious Pakistani travelers who may be sent to America by Osama bin Laden to join sleeper cells and carry out another attack. They were told to check them for rope burns, bruises and other signs of terrorist-camp training. Officers have since had young male Pakistani passengers rolling up their sleeves at major airports from New York to Los Angeles.
Now they have new marching orders: Greet foreign passengers with "a smile" and say, "Welcome to the United States." And don't be so quick to detain suspicious foreigners, DHS advises. After all, they are "our customers."
Ridiculous. How are we supposed to take Orange Alerts seriously if our border agents can't? Come on Mr. Ridge, we're at war, remember? This isn't the time for a "kinder, gentler" anything; it is a time for getting serious about our national security. Granted there is no reason to be unneccessarily rude, but this smells of political correctness run amok and not the sort of thing our first line of homeland defense needs to be dealing with...
John Kerry Delenda Est!
