Posted on 08/17/2006 3:52:33 PM PDT by Spiff
I don't know what happened. I had the right title but when I posted the article it cut off the first word. Can you please fix?
As everyone with any sense knows, Political Correctness is all about self-deception and lying to others. The refusal to profile terrorists is but one aspect of this peculiarly Western form of modern imbecility.
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My (Now 8 year old) daughter has been pulled out twice for "random" screening. I could tell by the reaction of the TSA agents that they thought this was ludicrous, but they went ahead and made her stand to the side, arms out, while they passed the wand over her. She was 7 at the time..once at DFW, another at San Diego.
I have a slightly different take. I don't want them to skip granny. I want her checked. However, I want them to pay extra-special attention to people who fit the profile, which I think needs to now include young women and not just males.
As sad as that is, this is the world we live in today. The next mother-murderer-bomber could be a recent convert who doesn't fit the profile and will gladly sent her child to Allah.
I always knew there was something fishy about them.
I'll be the first to admit, she can be a terrorist at times, but she is not quite in the league of what we SHOULD be profiling for.
Yes. 2 or 3 of the British plotters were Anglos who recently converted to Islam; one was a couple who planned to use their baby as cover. In other incidents there was the 59 year old white woman (close to granny status) who disrupted a plane on her way back from Pakistan, and a young woman of Pakistani heritage flying from WV to SC.
It's true that most of the terrorists are Muslim Arabic men, but they have shown the ability to recruit people of all ages and ethnicities. Racial profiling would only work for a short time. After that, the worst dangers would be from the recruits (willing or unwilling). And how would we know who they were?
You might want to include 59 year old grannies coming from Pakistan to get a fiancee visa for their islamic boyfriend: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1685417/posts
Absolutely, everyone should have to strip naked in the concourse and receive a complete body cavity search in full view of the rest of the passengers.
After all, better safe thatn sorry.
My mother, in her initial stage of Alzheimer's, was taken into a 'private' room because they couldn't swab the top of her metal leg brace. I had mistakenly let her put her slacks on after she put on her full leg brace. It was humiliating. She took it well, I didn't.
Screening for terrorists as nicely as possible
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I WANT NAME(s), departments, policies, responsibilities, etc.
Where is the the NY Slime and all the "leaker's" when you really need it/them? /sarc.
Something to go duh about. How is racial profiling any different from racial preference, as used in education or the job place? One is pc, the other is not.
I agree. I posted this earlier, but it bears reposting.
Last Friday, I was up in San Francisco (hey, I had a professional conference, so I had an excuse). Hezbollah supporters were having a nice, peaceful march (ha!) around the city. Check out the demographic makeup of the protesters:
Islamo-fasicst idiots come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and ages these days, and don't think for a second that their braintrust won't use our biases against us.
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