>Man, I am so signing you up for "Scare Tactics", and I hope you crap your
>pants.
>
No one said that she wasn't actually very afraid. Reading through the
article, she clearly explains the fear she experienced.
>IF this article is non-fiction, and IF she wrote this article with the
>utmost journalistic integrity, I would have felt paranoid and overly
>helpless in the same situation. Myself, I tend to believe her.
>
>Is it racial profiling? Probably. But I've seen Diehard, and if you start
>flying around with a shirt that says "I love Muslims!" and you happen to
>catch a flight full of actual terrorists, you are going to be the first one
>to get your neck slit with a packing knife. This is a f-ed up world we live
>in. But the fact of the matter is: a group of Middle Eastern men planned
>and, more importantly, executed the most devastating and viscous terrorist
>attack in the history of America.
>
>Should you swallow a cyanide pill at the first site of two or more
>stereotypical [keyword] terrorist men collaborating on a plane? Hell no.
>But if I see 14 of them conversing, especially if they boarded separately, I
>know my wife is going to have a heart attack, and I wouldn't feel
>comfortable until I drive my happy ass back to my house, lock the front
>door, and give my 140lb dog a pat on the head and a biljac.
>
Conversing: a heinous crime indeed. It is a widely known fact that
conversing was strongly considered for the little known 11th
Commandment. Further more, the original draft of the Constitution
explicitly prohibited a group of 14 or more minorities from conversing in
public places.
>I hate it. But I'm human.
>
>If I were Middle Eastern, I don't think I would have any problem with this
>article. I would understand that one of the largest groups of nut job
>fanatics (Al Qaeda, Taliban, etc) out there just happen to share my ethnic
>background. I'd also show up to the airport 30 minutes earlier than I do
>now, cooperate with any procedures and then get on with my life. I don't
>mind going out of my way if it would make other people in this world feel a
>little more safer. I have a buddy of Middle Eastern descent, he flies all
>the time, and he feels exactly the same way.
>
If you were a Middle Eastern man you would not have a problem with the
article? Well I don't know you, but by that sentence I think it's
reasonable to think that you not a Middle Easter man. It's not right for
some group have to be singled out and live by another rule. "Everyone can
come to the airport by 10:am but any one of middle eastern origin must come
to the airport by 9 am." Today it's middle easterner (American's
included). Tomorrow it's ppl of Hispanic origin. The day after that we
target Greeks. And then for shit's and giggles, we will target Native
American Indians.
The idea that because Terrorist of Middle Easter descent committed 9/11
that all Middle Easterners are legitimate suspects is a notion illogical to
me. Illogical I tell you.
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