> many people. I WANT them to profile. I want to be stopped because I look suspicious. > I want to know that they are looking out for us.
I don't want them profiling me. I guess we differ, but I can deal with differences. :) > Look at the guy with the shoe bomb. He was in Israel and they thought he looked suspicious. > They went so far as to give him a strip search. They also upgraded him to first class after he > was found to not be carrying anything (that time). Different countries, different laws. The shoe bomb guy was not an Israeli citizen though, so the situation is a little different also. If this happened in the US though, and the guy getting strip searched was American also, then I would hope the strip search would have illegal and he would have had the ability to go after the airline for civil right's violations. > Yes, they should have called his employers. There are probably a few things > they should have done. They're new at this and are using crude techniques > rather than deduction and psychology. They'll get better. > Profiling is a very effective way of saving lives. I'm not talking pulling someone > over for DWB. I'm talking about planes. I'm talking about situations where more > than one person is in danger. Profiling, besides being another word for racism in my book, is unconstitutional. If we Americans value the piece of paper that has been instrumental in fostering our success, then we should not be so hasty in looking the other way when it's convienient. I don't mind being scanned by a million explosive scanners as I enter a building, or helping to pay for those scanners, but a legal precedent for racism is very very scary. jon ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
