So I hear there has been a big Bridge Card heist in the Metro-Detroit area. What does this mean for Arab-Americans? Chances are the blogosphere will soon be on fire with a flaming repudiation of Arabs, their questionable allegiances, and what they have been doing with the money they make from these scams. Well, let me be the first to declare Arabs are some of the hardest working Americans. So what does it mean if some Arabs have their hands dirty in this scam? In my opinion, it simply indicates Arabs are like any other group in this country. They are neither monolithic in act or belief and should never be generalized when something silly like this takes place.
Law enforcement officials, as usual, are attempting to yet again pin terrorist charges to a run of the mill fraud scam.
Agents from the FBI, Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Treasury assisted state and local agencies with the raids, which occurred around 11 a.m. Federal investigators are looking into the possibility that the money defrauded from the state might be funneled through the store owners and assisting organizations in the Middle East with ties to terrorism.“We look at this as a first step to see where this money is going,” said Bugbee, who mentioned the terrorist organization Hezbollah as a possible recipient of the money.
Once again, the presumptuousness of attention-seeking law enforcement officials will draw negative attention to this case and Arab Americans. Yet again the terrorism charges will certainly be proven false. Shouldn't law enforcement be playing down such allegations though? Why do they always pin these stupid terrorist charges which always pan out to be false? Shouldn't law enforcement know by now that some people just scam the system to make money?
Really, it's pretty ridiculous and I'm calling their bluff. There is an entire community which gets heat when something like this takes place and their presumptuousness does NOT help. Let the judicial system work. A spade is a spade. A scam is a scam. But a crook is not necessarily a terrorist.
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Like you said "it's pretty ridiculous" the assumptions they make. However, I do want to say Arabs are pretty ridiculous with this notion of making money off the Bridge Card.
I mean look at how high the insurance is in Dearborn, do we ever wonder why? I now have to pay extremely rates with insurance because people decided to burn down their homes or crash their cars.
I try to find the explanation for such behaviour amongst the Arabs and the only thing I can think of is that Arabs have been under occupation for years. They've learned to live the life of the Survivor of the Fits. Most of Arabs who migrated their countries do not want to be here in the "western" world. Most of the older generation thinks they'll be going back "HOME" someday.
The had to flee their "HOMES" for safety and thats the mentaliy the arrived with into the western world.
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