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Originally Posted by Gordon Shumway
So the "hypocrisy" is pointed towards the U.S. government but the "amnesia" is pointed towards the American citizen...?...either way Navarette seems to believe that Americans are stupid.
And, while you may not like profiling & despite its flaws it is what makes law enforcement possible. Without it we'd be looking for something rather than a "bald fat white man with a goatee" in which case I'd be the one being profiled. Believeing that only minorities get profiled is dishonest. While it may be true that minorities get profiled more often it's not due to racism as has been implied.
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What I wonder about is why I never heard reports of Vietnamese Americans being busted for violating commercial fishing regulations. Just as it was becoming harder for an American born to acquire a captain's permit and license a boat, many former refugees were showing up with brand new boats, papers in hand. O.K. I can understand their former livelihood in their old country may have involved fishing and shrimping, so our government wanted them to be productive citizens instead of a burden to society. BUT, the red fish was outlawed as an acceptable catch for commercial use. (It was still allowed in sport fishing.) Native borns were getting fined right and left if they had one red fish mixed in with their catch. And when you are unloading a net, your main concern is fish you are going to keep, so most of the red fish were dying on deck till the triage was over anyway.
Then there are laws in certain areas that do not allow night fishing for periods of time.
Every night skiffs would travel back and forth between the shore and the commercial fishing boats. These boats were driven by Vietnamese women. The boat was loaded down with contraband catches that had been cut up and fillet out so you couldn't really tell what kind of fish it was and sent to market the next day.
Many people called the coast guard, the fish and wildlife offices to no avail.
