Legal Director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Joining The TSA
Nawar Shora served as the legal director of the ADC after joining the organization as an intern in 1999. In his tenure there he fought the government over what the organization saw as security abuses against minorities. He is being brought into the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, to serve as senior adviser for its office of civil rights and liberties.
Now while the methodology of security is an area of great debate in terms of the profiling versus not profiling question, a larger question might be the hidden mandate of the organization that Shora is coming from.
From it's website, the mission statement of the ADC reads as:
THE AMERICAN-ARAB ANTI-DISCRIMINATION COMMITTEE (ADC) IS A CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE OF ARAB DESCENT AND PROMOTING THEIR RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE.
However, according to the website DiscoverTheNetworks.org, the ADC has at its core the following:
Civil rights and civil liberties group
Opposes U.S. aid to Israel
Opposes ethnic profiling of Arab Americans
Opposes Patriot Act and the U.S. war on terror
Supports Palestinian "martyrdom" campaigns in Israel
While in America people and organizations have the freedom to think and believe what they want, is a position in the TSA for Shora going to serve to make the traveling public any safer?
Photo courtesy of Fellowship.com
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This appointment is indicative of the mindset of the US presidential administration. TSA is a failure. It needs an overhaul. The US government sees leans so far to the left that it's poised to fall over. S
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