Who should we really fear?

Where are the real terrorists?

Who should the authorities be watching?

Just a few hours after an 88 year old man shot a black security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, it had become abundantly clear that he was a racist, an anti-semite and a Holocaust denier.

James von Brunn’s background is terrifying, and so are his statements on the internet about white supremacy and hatred towards Jews and Blacks, which have started disappearing as more details about the attacker are learned.

Von Brunn was full of hate. The United States is also filling up with hate, hate that is connected to unfounded fears.

Hate and fear seem to go hand in hand and they’ve been stirred up recently in several ways.

Former President George W. Bush fanned the flames of anti terrorist fear during his eight years in office.

Fear is also present in the alleged conspiracies of supremacist groups that don’t accept being governed by an African American president.

There’s also other fears, like the ones that were provoked by the extremists who recently murdered an abortion doctor.

Also, immigrants have always been the target of hate provoked by unfounded fears of demographic change.

What to do with so much fear, hate and extremism?

There’s more than enough work for law enforcement, but sometimes they decide to chase the easy targets: undocumented workers.

In Pennsylvania, for example, 45,000 drivers whose Social Security numbers don’t match up with SSA records are being targeted.

PennDot will report all the licenses and plaques that they suspend, and that will set off a police chase throughout the state.

Isn’t there already enough hate and fear to go around without chasing after undocumented workers who, in any case, have built their lives in the USA and aren’t going to go back to their countries?