RANDOM IDIOCY - (Malkin: refusal to "racial profile" in terror hunt increases security risk!)

NY POST.COM ^ | JULY 22, 2005 | MICHELLE MALKIN

[Junior_G]

Targeting just one group, as you and Malkin suggest, will leave every other group free to strike.

It is not about refusing to be vigilant against possible threats that aren't arabic in appearance. Sure, it's possible that somebody of any race or nationality can become an Islamic terrorist. But what you and the mayor want us to believe is that Islamic terrorists are just as likely to be white as they are black as they are arabic, that they are just as likely to be male as they are female, that they are just as likely to be 25 years old as they are 60 or 80 or 5.
Profiling does not mean that you target one specific group and do not consider the possibility that another type of person might commit the crime. It simply means that you don't put politically correct blinders on to the plain facts about who is more likely to commit that crime.

The mayor's current policy of randomly searching every 5th person would seem less absurd if it was executed in conjunction with a policy of checking every single young middle eastern male. Personally, I would rather see them let the police exercise their own judgement in who to stop. That would naturally focus more on those with a middle eastern appearance but would inconvenience some others as well. Checking people randomly with no basis to do so whatsoever is counterproductive, annoying, and not a good sign of things to come.

[FYREDEUS]

I hope you are right but yesterday I saw New Yorkers MEEKLY SUBMIT to random searches on the NY Transit system :-(

Whether or not the 'MEEK' will inherit the Earth in the End in the present they will not KEEP the Liberty which we HAVE already inherited from our ancestors who fought and died to preserve it for the West by submitting meekly against either foreign terrorists seeking to destroy it from without or domestic political opportunists undermining it from within.

This cynical exploitation of the human tragedy and atrocity of London to further encroach upon Liberty and advance quicker towards a Police State is vile and DISGUSTING.

[John Filson]

I'm not suggesting that we should resist the good efforts of our anti-terrorism forces as they try to find bombs in the skirts of 80 year-old Christian caucasian women.

I'm not suggesting that we should throw a monkey wrench into these bureaucratic processes that are truly intended to help.

I'm simply suggesting that we root out the cause of our vulnerability: foreigners of Islamic descent, and their second generation children. We can start with the worst cases and see if that helps. Round them up, screen them to the best of our ability, and ship them out. When we find a jihadist among them, put him on trial and execute him.

As a democratic people, it is our responsibility to require our politicians to make these decisions. They feel timid and unsure of themselves. Half of them are probably afraid of international courts.

We need to block this kind of immigration from now on, no excuses, no exceptions, no sympathies.

[Humidston]

I have the ideal solution for suicide bombers wanting to penetrate the subway system in NYC...

If the police have been instructed to search every FIFTH person regardless of racial profiles,

YOU GUYS LINE UP, SEVEN OF YOU. That way, only #5 will be stopped and searched. THAT LEAVES #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, AND #7 WILL BE FREE TO BLOW UP TRAIN CARS & MURDER AMERICANS.

/sarc

[CHARLITE]

"THAT LEAVES #1, #2, #3, #4, #6, AND #7 WILL BE FREE TO BLOW UP TRAIN CARS & MURDER AMERICANS."

No doubt the N.Y. and N.J. terror cells are already working on this angle. What a "dumb-a$$" concept this subway search routine is! Announcing it publicly is additionally idiotic!

Thanks for your remarks, Humidston!

Char :)