Law enforcement does profiling. We see it on TV crime shows. Why is it considered politically incorrect not to apply it to aviation security? You focus on the people who commit terrorist acts, in the same way you focus on the people who commit a crime. The police doesn’t go out and arrest a bunch of people. They arrest a suspect. The TSA doesn’t really know what its doing.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
I have a prediction, which I hope DOESN’T come true:
The terrorists are going to do an end-run around all this silly airport security with a major strike using a major weapon inside a city (dirty bomb or something else)... a strike that COULD be prevented by profiling, preventive police work and tougher visa controls but won’t be.
Hundreds (or more) will die and the TSA will continue sticking their fingers up their own and America’s collective butts to no avail.
I hope I’m wrong. But it’s what I fear.
Profiling is a made up tactic for defense lawyers to reduce sentences or get better plea deals for black criminals.
The problem we now experience in the airports is blood on the hands of defense lawyers and the lawless culture of urban black America.
Urban blacks chose a criminal life style and the lawyers force America to accept it.
Rick Santorum mentioned on TV the other night that “profiling” is a dirty word so he chose other words. I coulda screamed!
Affirmative action is racial discrimination and profiling. We’ve let the left hijack our language and use it as a weapon. I never let misuse of a term or an over generalization pass in an argument.
Profiling is actually an ingrained part of human intelligence.
Smart people look for patterns of behavioral probability in everything they do and they do this for many reasons. We see this all the time in sports, we see this in business, we live this in every aspect of our lives. Many examples can be given.
If we observe something happening and we take away that this is now a predictable pattern of statistical response we call that “Learning” and react to it in the future as to leverage that probability to optimize our personal success.
Successful Businesses operate with this as an undeniable fact of life. I would offer that modern Quality improvements completely revolve around the idea of using data to manage successfully (from modern concepts of Six Sigma going back to Deming and Schehart).
If we have data that correlates to a probable outcome and refuse to act in a way as to have learned from that then we are people who simply will not learn. I would label that as being fatally ignorant.
What the Left implies when it claims “Profiling”, is the absolute absence of logic and learning - and if you disagree with their fantasy world then you must be a racist.
For a group who constantly chides Conservatives for their “so called belief in this fictional character Conservatives call God” they sure have a Disney-like belief in this fantasy that facts and data should have no bearing on future results.
I just heard an airline pilot on a radio show call in and he said TSA would NEVER pull an Arab man out of a line and wand him. Too politically incorrect so they firure they have come up with a solution by scanning or groping everybody. I also understand Muslim women are exempt from this groping.
What I find most disturbing about the enhanced TSA screening is that it is not a temporary measure that we must endure until terrorism is defeated. It is a permanent intrusion on our liberties that will only get worse over time because we have no plan for victory. Hell, our government won’t even name our enemy or say the word victory!