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You should ghost write for Ann. You were coherent.

I know the concerns. I wish Bush would stand up and say ... "Damn right we're profiling! We know that our greatest risk is from Arab or Asian Muslim men, ages 18-35, with temporary or guest visas from certain areas and active passport activity to certain places in the last 24 months. So, we're racial profiling. We're gender profiling. And were age profiling. And we're citizen status profiling. We're location profiling. Because that group, with that status, in those locations are most likely to kill a bunch of us again. OK? They already have. 3000 of us. If 85 year old Swedish women start terrorizing and killing our citizens, we'll start demographic profiling them instead. Arab-Americans who are stopped in high risk centers ... airports, bus terminals, power plants, railroad and other utility centers .... I'm sure they will understand the reasons and good intent of our vigilence. But we're going to be assertive and vigilent. We want to catch bad guys with the murder of our families in their plans. And, together, we will." End of story.

That would be nice, and it would be nice if he told James Zogby in advance to stick it up his hole.

But Coulter's allegations are false. I can tell you Reg, I fly too damn much ... there IS a random check in place. I asked someone who knows ... It's a buzzer that goes off and you are shuffled to the side. They can buzz anyone over they want, but they can't stop a random buzz. So Gore got searched. But there's no evidence that Muslim men are being waved through or given preferential clearance. That allegation is unsupportable and ridiculous. It's all pap.

This is like deconstructing the meaning behind a painting some chimp with four paint tubes just threw together. Regards!

I asked someone who knows ... It's a buzzer that goes off and you are shuffled to the side. They can buzz anyone over they want, but they can't stop a random buzz.

So, are security personnel given formal training on what the majority of terrorists will look like so they can manually "buzz" these guys (gender purely unintentional of course, I wouldn't want to be accused of sex profiling)?

If so, isn't that less reliable than computer-generated auto-searches for anyone named "Mohammed?"

So Gore got searched. But there's no evidence that Muslim men are being waved through or given preferential clearance. That allegation is unsupportable and ridiculous. It's all pap.

Strawman.

No one is saying that muslims and ME's are being escorted in (except maybe as satire), just that there is no auto-search mechanism specific to that race and/or religion.