PRESIDENT OBAMA’S REACTION TO THE SAN BERNADINO SHOOTING: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK

12/3/15

Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik burst into a San Bernardino holiday party in tactical gear and open up on the participants, who were Mr. Farook’s fellow County employees, with assault rifles, killing 14 people and injuring at least another 14.    It is later discovered that the house Mr. Farook and his wife occupied was packed with pipe bombs, and pipe bomb material, in various stages of assembly.   We also learned that Mr. Farook had traveled extensively in the Middle East and that he had extensive contacts with people in the United States whom the FBI considers to be involved in terrorism.  

President Obama, with all this knowledge at his disposal, says

“It is possible that this (the San Bernardino shootings) was terrorist related but we don’t know.  It’s also possible that this was workplace related.”

Possible that this was terrorist related?   What could more closely fit the profile of a terrorist act?  

This could be workplace related?   So Mr. Farook was slighted at work somehow and decided to acquire assault weapons and pipe bombs in response and consulted with suspected terrorist elements in doing so?   Surely Mr. Obama isn’t trying to argue that perhaps Mr. Farook is the victim here, that he was responding to the way he was treated at work….is he?

We have further learned that a neighbor saw many people “of Middle Eastern origin” going into and out of the Farook house carrying packages, but the neighbor didn’t report anything to the police because she didn’t want to racially profile or to be deemed racist.  So now 14 people died, perhaps because someone was paying obeisance to the political correctness that has run amok in our society.   Now the President of the United States is apparently worshipping at that altar of political correctness, failing to call a terrorist act a terrorist act because, after all, we wouldn’t want to prejudge a situation and risk offending…whom?  Terrorists?   Or does Mr. Obama really believe that every Muslim and/or Middle Easterner would be offended if he called what Mr. Farook did what it was…a terrorist act?   Just how sensitive does Mr. Obama think people are?   More properly, just how sensitive is the President?

Perhaps Mr. Obama will give the silent neighbor a Presidential Medal of Freedom for her noble work against racism and stereotyping.