Neighbors of San Bernardino Shooters Did Not Report Suspicious Behavior; Afraid of ���Racist��� Label

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

This is the natural evolution of things.

The kind of suspicious activity that we���re often told to watch for by authorities had been noticed by neighbors of San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik. However, that activity went unreported because those neighbors feared being identified as racists.

Such is the danger of the progressive narrative. Progressive narratives, either by design or inadvertently, can have a tendency to undermine national security. The reaction of Farook���s neighbors to what they saw as clearly suspicious behavior is a terrific example of that.

This problem is further exacerbated when people like Attorney General Loretta Lynch make it a point to say that the Department of Justice will go after those espousing anti-Muslim rhetoric, as she did recently. Aside from the ominous implications to the First Amendment and free speech, more generally, positions such as Lynch���s have the potential to further dissuade concerned citizens from speaking up when they see possible threats to the nation, in cases where those threats appear to be engineered by what has essentially become a protected class of citizen in this country.

These are, indeed, dangerous times.