Steyn on the Folly of Non-Discriminatory Immigration

You know the bit in the movie thrillers where the fourth or fifth killing has taken place and the police are sifting through the evidence to see what patterns they can identify?

Ha! That's fine for Hollywood fantasyland, but, in the real world, law enforcement know better than to go down that route. Let's say you arrest a bunch of guys plotting to blow up Parliament and behead the Prime Minister. Wow! Who would do such a thing? Who are these guys?

"They're all residents of Canada and for the most part, they're all citizens," said Mitch McDonell, assistant commissioner of the RCMP.

So all these people plotting to wreak havoc on Canada's Parliament were living in Canada? Anything else that might narrow it down a little more?

Assistant Commissioner McDonnell didn't think so: "They represent the broad strata of our community," he continued. "Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed."

A remarkable case. The more you look at these guys -- Mohammed Dirie, Amin Mohamed Durrani, Yasim Abdi Mohamed, etc -- the less they seem to have in common. Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed, some spell "Mohammed" with two "m"s, some with one, some have it as a first name, some have it as a last name, some have it as a middle name. The strata don't come any broader than that...

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