Were the Bali bombers Arab?
I agree profiling is fine. But don't restrict the scope of that profile.
Posted on 08/10/2006 11:48:06 AM PDT by WmShirerAdmirer
Second, as I wrote before, of course you want to keep your eyes open for all suspicious people and activity.
But, as we try to treat everyone equally in our anti-terrorist efforts, middle-eastern young adult males continue to be the bulk of the threat.
It only takes one. I went to Europe last year with a friend. We are both blond haired and blue eyed. My hair is turning gray--two middle-age women. We seemed to hit every profile of every airport we went to. Milan, Rome, Amsterdam. And you know what? We didn't care. We took the time to go through extra searches and questionings. We figured out several of the reasons in retrospect. Something about our tickets triggered our almost not being allowed onto the plane in Milan and being put on some list. We'll never know why. But we returned home safely.
You know, I remember that now. Quite shocking. Hope that she got along with her life. And left Pali boyfriend behind.
Again, the sooner the PROBLEM is resolved (eradicated) the sooner security can ease back. It is a diseased mindset.
It is a supremacist ideology that seems as happy to dominate the world as it does to tear everything down and claim victory as a martyr.
"It's embarrassing and uncomfortable to fly naked, so the airlines will hand out identical jumpsuits and paper booties."
That's exactly what some of us at work suggested today. We even cracked up and thought about having Boeing design a tow hook on their planes so that they could hook up and drag a glider cargo unit containing all of the luggage and carry-ons. If something blows up - plane is safe. Airline would have to put up with a bunch of whiney passengers wearing their airline smocks/jumpsuits wondering what happened to their luggage. The other option would be to have airlines coordinate all of their flights so that they can charter a cargo plane to haul all of the luggage to their destination. The luggage could then be delivered or picked up at the airport within a reasonable time after the passenger flights arrive.
Correct. But that doesn't mean that every "one" is equally likely. Why not match the defense with the obvious, repeated, historically known offense?
When your team is playing against the Miami Heat, you'd better plan to double or triple-team Shaq. You know it going in. Ignoring the obvious, proven threat is simply suicide.
If enough explosive can be concealed in the sole of a shoe, then we don't need no steenkin' experts to tell us the obvious. The average use-one-time-only-and-discard terrorist is expert enough.
Yep. A policy based on "well I guess we have to check for that too" is nothing but a slow march to the grave. There's only one thing we need to check for right now: Muslim males.
Just think if you were not able to take a cell phone on a plane or a laptop. From the moment you check in your luggage to the time you arrive, unload, and go to the baggage carosel, you've got nothing to work with. Also, what if your luggage gets lost, uggh. I wonder if air travel will ever be near the same.
Well, 3k miles one way is a bit of a drive...bummer.
No, better wand that baby but good; that diaper might be loaded! /sarcasm
I wonder if she was humming Come Out Ye Black And Tans to herself.
bttt
Were the Bali bombers Arab?
I agree profiling is fine. But don't restrict the scope of that profile.
True, but Arabs can be easily identified by appearance. It is more difficult to guess somebody's "religion". Booting Arabs would get rid of at least 80% of the problem in this country. Let other countries worry about their problems.
And why doesn't Israel have any problems with Islamic murderers on their airlines? Maybe we should do what they do.
Paul and Linda McCartney were known to smuggle contraband in their baby's diaper.
There was a terrorist shooting at the Air Israel counter at LAX a couple years back.
The flight will be nerve-racking but the cruise will be awesome! We went on a cruise to Alaska a couple years ago. Incredible!
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