Did you wake up and shudder this morning? Now you know why.

Justice Department Considers Racial Profiling For Terror Prevention

Do I even need to put up excerpts?

The Justice Department is considering letting the FBI investigate Americans without any evidence of wrongdoing, relying instead on a terrorist profile that could single out Muslims, Arabs or other racial and ethnic groups.

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If adopted, the guidelines would be put in place in the final months of a presidential administration that has been dogged by criticism that its counterterror programs trample privacy rights and civil liberties.

Critics say the presumption of innocence is lost in the proposal. The FBI will be allowed to begin investigations simply "by assuming that everyone's a suspect, and then you weed out the innocent," said Caroline Fredrickson of the American Civil Liberties Union.

A last final 'fuck you' to the country before he scurries out of office. Thanks George, don't forget to burn everything to the ground and salt the earth on your way out.

Courts across the country have overturned criminal convictions when defendants showed they were targeted based on race. Racial profiling generally is considered a civil rights violation, and former Attorney General John Ashcroft condemned it in March 2001 as an "unconstitutional deprivation of equal protection under our Constitution."

Yet another policy that actually makes it harder to prosecute and convict actual terrorists. It's almost comical at this point. Is the Justice Department actually looking at reasons cases get thrown out and judgments overturned and deciding to do what fails?

This must be heartening to the Tim McVeigh's, Eric Rudolph's and Ted Kaczynski's of the world.