exactly. Racial profiling would be: Two guys walk into a bar and order a beer. They have beards. Their skin is darker than mine. They must be doing casing the joint so they can bomb it later. .
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's not profiling, that's just police work 101. You investigate your > subjects because they've made terrorist threats. You investigate the people > they hang out with and the places they go. "Profiling" suggests that you are > looking for new crimes/criminals based on some supposed similarities between > past crimes/criminals. That is not the case here. What you suggest is simply > an investigation based upon a real crime (threat of violence). > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Michael Dinowitz < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> They already are in my home town. In the beginning of the week there were >> two incidents in Brooklyn where Muslim men entered synagogues and made >> threats of a jihadist nature. Were the men terrorists or were they just >> those who are emboldened and/or enamored by terrorists. If they were >> investigated, would it lead to some place that is promoting terrorist >> ideals? Would that place be a mosque? >> Here's a perfect case where profiling comes into play. The people involved >> in the incidents are a known factor - jihadist wannabees. Using them as the >> center of a profile, where do they hang out? Who do they hang out with? >> What >> do they do? Anyone associated with them now becomes a valid profiling >> target. Yes, they are just proto-terrorists but if the knife from one >> incident was used then it moves into murder based on jihad, which is a >> really good definition of terrorism. >> >> It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out it's only a matter of >> > time before those networks begin operations in your home town. >> > >> > Seriously. >> > >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291603 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
