Frisking the innocent

THOUGH Al Gore has his faults, not even his most unsparing critic thinks he might take it into his head to hijack an airplane. But that didn't stop airport screeners from pulling him out of line as he was preparing to board a flight from Washington to Milwaukee last week and running him through the full ``security'' check: body scanned, briefcase rifled, underwear pawed through. And it didn't stop them from doing it to him again the next day when he flew to New York.

Tis better that thousands of Americans perish time and again than have one middle eastern type have his feelings hurt.
So says the liberal Bible…

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

I flew recently. The security twits (Tom Daschle's "professionals") had me take off my shoes, searched the handbag of a woman not a day under 75 years old and took her cuticle scissors. As her and I were being screened by these "professionals", two guys walk right on by and board. They were both 25, maybe 30 and obviously and without a doubt of "middle eastern" appearance. they were both carrying backpacks. Now they may have been the nicest guys in the world and just 2 men going about their business and as innocent as the 75 year old lady. But to let them pass without a second look while hassling the old lady is just moronic.

As writer Stuart Taylor Jr. points out: "If you make the plausible assumptions that Al-Qaida terrorists are at least 100 times as likely to be from the Middle East as to be native-born Americans and that fewer than 5 percent of all passengers on domestic flights are Middle Eastern men, it would follow that a randomly chosen Middle Eastern male passenger is roughly 2,000 times as likely to be an Al Qaeda terrorist as a randomly chosen native-born American. It is crazy to ignore such odds."

Pardon me while I do a little happy dance. The leader of the party that leads the fight against racial and ethnic profiling gets searcheed -- not once, but twice -- because airport security isn't allowed to do racial and ethnic profiling. This is poetic justice at its finest.

If only Daschle, Hillary and Gephardt could get frisked a few times, while bearded men of Middle Eastern descent strolled through the security checkpoints and waved at them.

Ann Coulter pointed out that 100% of all successful hijackings over the past 20 years have been done by Middle Eastern men, and noteed that with a 100% probability, it's no longer "profiling," but a "description of the suspect."

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