In a recent editorial “Let Bus Drivers Drive, Not Hunt for Terrorists” the Pilot denounced the idea that school bus drivers should be encouraged to report activity they see that may be related to terrorism. The ubiquitous school buses drive through most of America’s neighborhoods and if, say, the bus driver saw a group of people wearing turbans and face masks practicing an assault on a synagogue, that would be a good thing, no? Well, according to the Virginian Pilot, no. If the Department of Homeland Security encourages or makes it easier for bus drivers to do this, according to the Virginian Pilot, the Federal Government is unleashing a gang of 600,000 political spies to destroy what is left of our precious freedom.
That freedom of course, no longer includes drawing cartoons of Mohammed, but let that pass.
Of course it comes to the opposite conclusion when it comes having doctors spy on their patients.
The article “Bill would bar doctors from asking about guns” comes down squarely on the reasonableness of doctors asking patients about gun ownership. The American Academy of Pediatrics, a group that advocates a total ban on guns, is quoted but not identified as an advocacy group for a radical position.
So the Virginian Pilot does not want school bus drivers involved in protecting us from terrorism, but is all for having doctors spying on us to see if we own guns.
From the gang that still has not shown us the cartoons of Mohammed, it makes perfect sense.
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