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Should race, ethnicity & appearance be used to determine which passengers to search? Poll
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| 01-08-2010
| rasmussenreports
Posted on 01/08/2010 3:02:14 PM PST by DBlake
59% Favor Racial, Ethnic Profiling For Airline Security...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; belongsinchat; racialprofiling; spam
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posted on
01/08/2010 3:02:14 PM PST
by
DBlake
To: DBlake
Does race, ethnicity & appearance account for the majority of terrorists?
To: DBlake
It is the religion, stupid.
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posted on
01/08/2010 3:09:11 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: DBlake
The very idea that this is a question is beyond stupid.
This is like asking your safari guide which animals are deadly and he refuses to tell you because it might mistakenly discriminate against some who are friendly.
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posted on
01/08/2010 3:13:29 PM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Al Qaeda only hijacked commercial aircraft...Obama hijacked the White House!)
To: DBlake
5
posted on
01/08/2010 3:14:01 PM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: MrEdd
If not appearance how about smell? To quote Bugs Bunny “Sheesh what a maroon!”
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posted on
01/08/2010 3:16:23 PM PST
by
DaveyB
(Alcohol ,Tobacco and Firearms should be a convenience store not a bureaucracy!)
To: JimSEA
Assuming muslims will lie to conduct their attacks profiling based upon appearance is the best we can do.
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posted on
01/08/2010 3:17:32 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: DBlake
If a 300 pound white male killed a person on a busy street corner you would not be checking black female midgets as suspects. Go figure.
To: skeeter
What appearance are you going to go on?? Chechnya and Bosnia will give you Caucasians. Indonesia has the largest Muslim population. The Pantie bomber is black. America has White and Black converts to Islam. Middle Eastern people look a lot like Hispanics.
My point is that you miss too many potential threats if you look only at Mideastern types and Al Quada can easily adapt as is show by the Nigerian where half or more of the population are Christian.
9
posted on
01/08/2010 3:47:59 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: JimSEA
Exactly!
Behavior, behavior, behavior.
To: JimSEA
99% of all terrorist acts in the past 50 years have been by the hands of Mulsim males 16 - 48 years of age.
I’ve been saying that for the past 10 years. I heard Brennan say nearly the same thing (Muslim males 18 - 40 years of age) on television this afternoon.
What part of this is debatable?
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:19:21 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(NO Foreign Nationals as our President!!)
To: JimSEA
Of course there should be other parameters as well. I was only pointing out that appearance should be the primary one, along with nationality.
Once we're willing to profile this way I'll believe we're serious about fighting terror & saving lives. Unfortunately we're not there yet.
12
posted on
01/08/2010 4:20:29 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: DBlake
Of course not!
The present PC totally stupid protocols should stay in place.
They have worked out so well...
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:25:19 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: JimSEA
My point is that you miss too many potential threats if you look only at Mideastern types and Al Quada can easily adapt as is Even Allowing for the fact that bureaucracies have a collective IQ inversely proportional to the number of its members, "profiling" consists of much more that your puerile definition.
Just saying...
Nice straw man, though.
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posted on
01/08/2010 4:31:06 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: DBlake
It won't let me vote, says cookies have to be enabled....but to my knowledge, they ARE! This has happened to me on a couple of sites, and I don't know what the heck the problem is. I use Kaspersky Internet Security....could that be my cookie problem?
Mrs. Prince of Space
To: Publius6961
Straw man nothing, It seems that the Nigerian and the shoe bomber, not to mention Johnny Walker and the St. Louis shooter all are contrary to a profile based on ethnicity and race. Next time be direct and call me a stupid a$$hole rather than us five dollar words like puerile.
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posted on
01/08/2010 5:02:19 PM PST
by
JimSEA
To: SatinDoll
99% of all terrorist acts in the past 50 years have been by the hands of Mulsim males 16 - 48 years of age.
Ive been saying that for the past 10 years.My favorite quote of the last 24 hours:
[At war with Islam]
"We're gonna be at war for the next 30 years; we're afraid to call them muslim islamic terrorists. We'll call them anything but --- because we don't want to alienate muslim countries!
"That's ridiculous!
"Of course the vast majority of muslims- there are a billion, four-hundred million -- are not terrorists, but there are hundreds of millions who are!
"They want to kill every Christian, every Jew, every Hindu who won't convert!
"And we ought to put that on the table."
Ex-NY Mayor Ed Koch on Hannity, Jan 7, 2010
And, I might add, freakin' act on it!
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posted on
01/08/2010 5:06:21 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: JimSEA
Straw man nothing, It seems that the Nigerian and the shoe bomber, not to mention Johnny Walker and the St. Louis shooter all are contrary to a profile based on ethnicity and race.When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
You are the only one who has defined "profiling" as simply a process solely "based on ethnicity and race."
What that means is, that no one else has.
So puerile fits perfectly.
Sorry.
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posted on
01/08/2010 5:15:20 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
To: DBlake
Yes, strip search bi-racial muslims who had white mothers who were skanks and liked to sleep with married kenyan muslims, communists agitators, and indonesian muslims. And whose early whereabouts and passports are not presntly known. Also persons who cannot prove where the hell they were born and cannot speak English without the help of a teleprompter.
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posted on
01/08/2010 5:30:02 PM PST
by
wetgundog
(" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
To: wetgundog
We can just ask the Israelis what "profiling" means. It is a lot more than ethnicity, language and race.
Their air-travel profiling, far as I know, has been 100% effective.
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posted on
01/08/2010 5:34:59 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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