PC - Politically Correct

I usually don't have a problem finding a way to begin my blog but the proper words escape me so I am just going to blurt it out.

This country as gone off the deep end with political correctness!

Political correctness takes many different forms and causes groups and individual to make decisions not based on the most logical data and most of these decisions are to the detriment of the country. I will admit that these people have good intentions but they are misguided. There is always an underlying reason that seems to makes the rule, law or decision appear logical but if the decision is played out to its inevitable conclusion, it ends up hurting more than it helps. Let's start with the most blaring obvious PC decision of the day:

The United States Attorney General is about to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial in a U.S. federal criminal court. This guy is alleged to mastermind the 9/11 bombing of the world trade center which makes him a terrorist. We are going to give a terrorist the rights granted citizens of the United States in an attempt to show the world we are under a different regime, a more civil society. Now let's take this decision to the next step. The president spent a majority of his campaign telling the world that the U.S. tortured prisoners, including Khalid, giving a defendant the perfect defense to any statements provided. How do we find a jury of his peers? What happens if he is found not guilty? Who is going to believe it is a fair trial if he is found guilty. Mr. Mohammed is a prisoner of war and should be tried in a military court.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his cohorts have been imprisoned at the military base at Guantanamo Bay on the Cuban island. Also a result of President Obama campaign, this prison is set to close at the end of January 2010. Gitmo has become a symbol of the "torture" which took place within its walls so an attempt to once again show the world how great a people were are here in the U.S. the President vowed to close the doors of this prison. It was not good enough to just end the practice, we had to close the prison. Now what do we do with these prisoners? There is not a congressman in Washington who wants to go back to their constituents and tell them that these evil men are going to be housed in their district. Now the question has to be asked, what are we going to do with these terrorists? Put them on trial in a U.S. federal court?

PC doesn't allow teacher to divide a classroom into groups so that the more advanced students can be challenged more. Segregating the classroom damages the self esteem of the non-advanced group. This forces teachers to teach to the least common denominator. Wonder why the U.S. schools are falling behind the world?

PC makes it taboo to identify members of certain religious groups who act abnormal or make suspicious statements. So when Major Nidal Malik made comments about Muslims rising up that caused concern among his peers, they were made to feel it would discrimination to report their suspicions. And 12 people were killed by his gun November 6, 2009 at Fort Hood Texas.

It was politically incorrect for VP Dan Quail to point out that the show Murphy Brown glamorized single motherhood. Yet today children born into single parent families are extremely more likely to end up doing time in jail.

Its politically incorrect to profile individuals. So rather than look more carefully at people who are more likely to commit a crime or terrorist act, we are searching old ladies at the airport.

There are many more examples of acting politically correct as opposed to doing what makes sense. Let's put PC aside when it works to the detriment of the country and its people.