[Citizen Tom Paine]

Can anyone out there tell me (I am not a lawyer) what law(s) prevent profiling? If profiling a single "ethnic type" is illegal lets do it for all. I would like to see the terrorist profile for old Caucasian women, Eskimo teenagers, etc.

It there is no law, is it an administrative decision?

Thanks in advance.

[Tulane]

The Constitution...Bill of Rights...due process and equal protection under the law (for starters).

[Wil H]

If profiling a single "ethnic type" is illegal lets do it for all.

This whole "ethnic profiling" is a total red herring.

No one is suggesting profiling on the base of ethnicity, profiling should be done on the basis of "TERRORIST PROFILE" - The profile of a terrorist in this day and age is overwhelmingly the following -

Muslim, AGE 20-35, Male, Middle Eastern or North African origin, Hides in plain sight

- The statistics clearly show that, therefore there can be no reason NOT to single out this group for scrutiny, it's as simple as that.

If there were NO MUSLIM terroism, there would be almost no terrorism at all and we could all live in peace.