Scott Moore wrote:

People should be flooding their congressional representatives demanding
Minetas resignation

Yes, I had a similar experience. I was in the 10 item express lane at the
market, and an obviously middle eastern gentleman in front of me had
ELEVEN items !

Frozen in terror, I tried to dial my cell phone without attracting
attention.....

That's nothing compared to the terrifying experience I had. I was in a
market recently when some fellow as blatently American as Timothy McVeigh
was making surreptitious attempts to dial his cell phone, just like the
devices used in the Madrid bombing.