Posted on 08/17/2006 9:48:34 AM PDT by kysun
Religious/racial profiling will highlight a stark choice for the mainstream Muslim community: either they will fulfill the pessimistic expectations of Tarique Ghaffur and turn toward terrorism, or they will begin to expose potential terrorists in order to stop the hijacking of their communal image. If they opt for deeper and more prolonged association with terrorism, no amount of kowtowing would prevent that association in any case – just ask the French. The Muslim community can, however, quash the plague of terrorism from within; profiling will end the moment they do. Until then, we cannot afford to take chances with our security.
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I'm in total agreement. Looking the other way isn't P.C., it's stupid.
Nothing!
Let's DO IT!
Oh yes... all military have official photo ID...
When Hillary's Prez
and you or I get stopped for
running a stop sign,
the policemen will check
their database. Then we'll hear,
"Oh, you're a Freeper!
They're trouble makers.
Step out while I search your car . . ."
I'm sure profiling
is gonna help in
the war against terrorists,
but you know we're next . . .
Hillary will never be President; your hysteria is unwarranted.
I thought an argument from an irrelevant extreme was a form a fallacy.
I'm all for profiling. Long overdue in my opinion. But I have some questions for criminal justice / terrorism experts:
1) What unbiased studies exist out there on profiling?
2) How do you profile your blonde hair, blue eyed (as an example) converts? Or those Muslims that don’t look typically Middle Eastern? It’s not as if you declare your religion when you fly. It seems to me that it is only a matter of time that a terrorist from perhaps the Balkans tries something. Would profiling enable the authorities to identify him as a terrorist? How?
These probably seem like stupid questions, but I see a lot of claims of profiling doesn’t work and in my gut I don’t agree with that, but it does raise some questions in my mind.
The advantage of profiling is that it lets the terrorists know what to avoid.
Multiple Choice Test
1. In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles by
(a) Superman,
(b) Jay Leno,
(c) Tiger Woods,
(d) a man from Palestine between 17 and 40 years old.
2. In 1972, 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed at the Munich Olympics by
(a) the kid who cuts your grass,
(b) Sitting Bull,
(c) Arnold Schwarzenegger,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
3. In 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was over-ran & 90 Americans were held for 444 days by
(a) Bruce Lee,
(b) Elvis Presley's deceased twin brother,
(c) a tour group of Minnesota grandmothers,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
4. During the 1980s, several Americans were kidnapped in Beirut by
(a) O J Simpson,
(b) the king of Sweden,
(c) the pope and a gang of Cardinals,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
5. In 1983, the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon was blown up, killing 220 Marines, by
(a) a Domino's Pizza delivery man,
(b) the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
(c) Catherine Zeta-Jones,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
6. In 1985, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70-year-old American passenger thrown overboard in his wheelchair by
(a) Sugar Ray Leonard,
(b) your next door neighbor,
(c) the Little Mermaid,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
7. In 1985, TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens and a U.S. Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by
(a) Captain Kangaroo,
(b)Walt Disney,
(c) Mother Teresa,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
8. In 1988, Pan American Flight 103 was destroyed by a bomb in midair by
(a) Butch Cassidy,
(b) the Sundance Kid,
(c) the Tooth Fairy,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
9. The World Trade Center was bombed the first time in 1993 by
(a) Stonewall Jackson,
(b) Michael Jordan,
(c) Winston Churchill,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
10. In 1998, U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by
(a) Santa Claus,
(b) your sister's cat's grandmother's first owner's son's basketball coach's ex-wife,
(c) the World Wrestling Federation,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
11. On September 11, 2001, airliners were hijacked to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by
(a) Bugs Bunny,
(b) Bob the Tomato,
(c) Ricky Martin,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
12. In 2002, Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and beheaded by
(a) Bonnie and Clyde,
(b) the Michelin man,
(c) Barney Fife,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
13. In July of 2005, several targets were attacked in central London, killing 52 persons, by
(a) the Orkin Man,
(b) Margaret Thatcher,
(c) Mr. Goodwrench,
(d) Muslims between 17 and 40.
add the USS Cole, Nick Berg's beheading and the Barcelona bombings ...
Profiling is a very useful tool. It is not foolproof and it won't catch every terrorist, but we are idiots is we don't use it.
Even the FBI profiles serial killers, etc., and for good reason (it often works).
PC is why we don't use it, and PC will get us all killed if we follow it blindly.
"The advantage of profiling is that it lets the terrorists know what to avoid."
Yes, they can put masks on to look like non-muslems. It would not be easy for them to avoid profiling. Yes, they could recruit non-muslem looking people, but how many of them have you seen blowing up stuff?
None that I know of. But I imagine that it would only be a matter of time before AQ recruits your average, blend in with the crowd convert.
That's correct. A member of the military is required to carry their ID with them at all times.
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