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Is My Dad A Terrorist?
This was my first thought when I heard that a barber shop quartet of terrorists, including one Haitian man, were planning on bombing two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, only to have their plot foiled by the FBI. See, my parents live in Riverdale and my Dad is Haitian, which based on the Jewish and Irish dominance in the neighborhood demographics gave my Dad a 1 in 10 chance of being involved. I am also surprised that my Mom did not report him to the FBI just because it would get him out of the house. Til death or Patriotic Act do they part.
In all seriousness I ran by the synagogues all the time (which I can probably no longer do without arousing suspicion) and have attended Bar Mitzvahs at one of them so it is sort of creepy. But perhaps now when I say I am from Riverdale, people will not say “like the Archie comics.”
But can it be a shock that Haitians are quickly becoming the hot new thing in terrorism? They are like the Zac Efron of global jihad and this is their High School Musical 3. A few years ago, a “plot” to bomb the Sears Tower was uncovered and involved a handful of Haitians in Florida. I quickly began joking that this was preposterous. I believe my joke was – “Really, Haitian terrorists? What were they going to do give the Sears Tower poverty and AIDS?”
The fact is that Haiti has been sitting right near the United States for 200 years and is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. It is also full of brown and black people. Poverty and melanin are, after all, the two biggest indicators of future terrorists/enemies of the United States. There may be a silver lining though – if eventually Haitian detention camps are started I feel like my blog and Tweets will be followed by many more people, even if most of them work for the government.
Furthermore, it turns out this latest plot was wrught by prison converts to Islam and not by some homegrown Haitian sect. Alexis de Toqueville famously wrote that you can judge a country by its prisons. So apparently our country can be defined by rape, weight rooms and turning people into worse people than they were before. In other words America is a 300 million member fraternity.
I have said it repeatedly; there are only a few ways Haiti can save itself and get help from the United States:
- Become Communist so that everyone can get a Coast Guard Escort to stay in the United States.
- Find Oil. Or…
- Try to become the 51st State.
And since these plots have been foiled perhaps we can focus on the atrocity that America has committed, namely, voting Kris Allen American Idol over Adam Lambert. I have not been this angry over a vote since John Kerry lost to George W. Bush.