Hal V. Engel wrote: > I would personally consider it suspicious if I saw someone who > appeared to be a 20 to 35 year old middle eastern male photographing > a bridge [...] some would consider this to be "profiling" [...] but > notice that there were a number of conditions that needed to be in > play to consider the behavior suspicious and only one of them was > race related.
Would you feel the same if it were the 1970's and people were calling for "irish-looking" men using public trash cans to be detained and questioned? The world is complicated, but every innocent person has a right to live in our society free of suspicion. And yes, that means some of us are willing to trade a little security for that guarantee. Sane people know that were vastly more likely to die from a car crash than a car bomb anyway. And yes, this is politics. But that attitude is precicely the aspect of todays society that we're (hopefully) going to find so embarassing in the decades to come. Yeah, we talk the talk, but when push came to shove we paniced and turned into the ethnocentric morons the rest of the world always thought we were... Obviously no further debate will be forthcoming from me. But it had to be said. Andy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
