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Little Mr Mahatma
 
Tuesday, May 13, 2003  
Club Private
If you watched the Masters Tournament recently you are no doubt aware of the outside campaign to open the Augusta National Golf Club to females.


You may have read in the news recently of some white high school students in Georgia holding an all-white prom. There's also an integrated prom being held that most of the other (meaning black) students will attend.


In todays age it is politically incorrect to have a private club that excludes a person based on *something*, usually gender or ethnicity but not always.


Yes, it's called Discrimination and certainly it's not correct when the issue is public institutions, corporations, and the like.


But... (Don't get me wrong)


Can a person have a little privacy?


We're halfway to somewhere and it's a nuisance not knowing which direction to go. Do we go all the way with integration and political correctness? Fine, forget Mens and Womens bathrooms and just have bathrooms. Fine, open all the clubs including ones that discriminate based on income. There's quite a few country clubs around me that require a six-digit initiation payment and that's discriminatory to me since I can't afford it. What? Income shouldn't be considered since it varies over time while gender and ethnicity don't change? Thanks to medicine you can change your gender. And for ethnicity you can lie, use makeup, or are we running background checks a la Nazi Germany? How about discrimination based on religious or political beliefs? I'm sure quite a few people would like to visit those secretive political groups that meet around Washington D.C.. And don't those Orthodox Jews keep the women separate in the temples? Terrible.


How about we restore some sanity and allow people to gather as they please. If Caleb and his buddies want to have a Whites only meeting then let them. If Bohort and his "'Braska Badgers" buds want to have a Members Only beer bash with strippers that's their business. If the Augusta National Golf Club want to exclude women from their membership that's their business. If the B.H. Adventurers Club want to limit members to those with only one testicle and a fetish for elephants that's their business.


Oh, but that will allow terrorists, extremists, bigots, and other potential threats to meet and plot. We need openness for National Security, not just political correctness and integration.


Bullhockey! What are you going to do? Limit the number of people that can gather in one location? Limit how long they can gather? Monitor their emails, phones, letters? Eavesdrop in on the conversations? Suggest that people turn one another in for "suspicious" behavior? Do DNA testing for "violence" genes? Force known and potential threats to wear stars on their clothes, or have an implant that tracks their movements?


Enough already.


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