The only way you can consider this to be a political issue is that there are people in the United States that think that to do any kind of "profiling" of an individual, no matter how much common sense it is to do so, is "POLITICALLY incorrect".

That's as close as I can come. Some people, if they feel a bit offended by a post, may feel it should be "censored", or in the case of this blog, moved to the political page.

(I don't mean this as any slight to Gracie, who is one of the sweetest people to post on this blog)